Customer Service Representative
Public Water Utility seeks Customer Service Representative to handle extensive contact by telephone and in person; process utility payments; perform office clerical work; serve as a telephone receptionist; process water service applications, and interpret customer’s accounts by using applicable rules, rate schedules and company policy and procedures. Proficiency in Microsoft Office; excellent writing [...]

The City of San Diego Real Estate Assets Department invites qualified individuals or companies to submit proposals to lease the City-owned aquatic and sailing center located at 1010 Santa Clara Place, San Diego, CA 92109. Proposals should be submitted in accordance with the Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by the City on November 2, 2009. [...]

Por: Paco Zavala
 La comunidad fronteriza, año con año está arraigando fuertemente las costumbres y tradiciones de nuestro querido México, sobre todo las tradiciones a celebrar en estos tiempos, que son los días en que se saborean los deliciosos tamales, el chocolate caliente, un trago de tequila o de aguardiente, se preparan en los hogares los [...]

Por Martin del Palacio
 Allá por 1963, cuando la televisión en casi todo el mundo era en blanco y negro y no había mucho espacio en la programación para los dibujos animados, un niño robot llamado Astroboy conquistó los corazones de millones de niños alrededor del planeta. No era para menos, ya que el diminuto personaje [...]

 As the entire country purchases the finishing touches for their Halloween costumes, puts up the last of the scary decorations the little town of San Ysidro prepares for a slightly less frightening celebration. It’s Día de los Muertos and the Southwestern most town in the USA knows just how to celebrate it.
 With live Mariachi, Ballet [...]

La Prensa San Diego has been a supporter of the board at Southwestern Community College, the hiring of Dr. Raj Chopra and his leadership as superintendent. When Dr. Chopra was hired the college was a mess, he was the fourth superintendent in a little over two years, a negative Grand Jury report, criminal investigation into [...]

Commentary:
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
 Stupidity among U.S. Senators is usually typified by watching Senator Harry Reid (D) of Nevada make some dumb statement. He has company in Senators Vitter of Louisiana and Bennett of Utah, both Republicans proving that stupidity exists in both Senatorial parties.
 The question is: Shall all persons in the United States be counted [...]

Commentary:
By Hector Garcia

 The financial, economic and environmental crises are alarm signals to the world, and particularly to us in the U.S. Acting on the basis of a fragmented worldview while globalization magnified and quickened that worldview’s effects, we rushed into unsustainable and destructive practices. On the other hand, we now have an opportunity to build [...]

Comentario:
Por José R Uzal
 Desde el principio de los años 90s, la globalización comenzó a producir la exportación de  buenos empleos. El número de norteamericanos sin seguro médico aumentó considerablemente. Nada  que ver con los inmigrantes ilegales. Hoy en día, uno de cada tres estadounidenses carece de seguro médico o tiene una cobertura sub estándar. Estados [...]

Kevin O’Neill doing it the hard way
 Kevin O’Neill laments someone has called him greedy and a predator; he was overheard calling his detractors Luddities. It would all be funny if that was all there was to it.
 Actually he has been throwing his weight around on the 600 Block of Second Avenue for a long time. [...]

Comentario
Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D.
 ¡Ajá! Apenas recibió el agua bendita del Partido Republicano. Para ser más exactos, Meg Whitman, ex gerente de eBay, se hizo oficialmente conservadora hace dos años. Votó por primera vez cuando tenía 46 años de edad.
 Sin embargo, hoy, esta vaca sagrada del sector privado, quiere ser la nueva gobernadora de uno de [...]

By Gustavo Arellano

 Dear Mexican: For most of my life I was oblivious to the hate that Mexicans have for Salvadorans. I became aware of it when I made the huge mistake of marrying a Salvi. Once I became engaged to my Salvi girlfriend or whenever I would tell any Mexican that I married a Salvi, [...]

Frontera NorteSur
 Continuing on the path of a centennial reconquest of power, Mexico’s former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) easily won October 18 municipal elections in the northern border state of Coahuila. While the PRI has long been the dominant political force in Coahuila, even during the last nine years of National Action Party (PAN) governments [...]

By José Francisco Gallardo Rodríguez
 Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice rejected a petition to review the constitutionality of the use of the army in public security activities, thereby supporting its activities and covering up the legal implications of the “war immunity” that exempts them from civil court prosecution. The Mexican Congress has hesitated to submit the [...]

Summer is Over San Diego Retailers, Feliz Navidad
By Lucia Matthews and Alice Gomez
 The air is crisper and the school year is well under way- summer season has ended. In low economic times San Diego retailers are in desperate need for profitable consumer markets to fill the void of decreased tourist flux. Savvy companies have identified [...]

By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
Arizona Watch
New America Media,
TUCSON, Ariz. — I’ll refer to her as Leticia X.
 She is undocumented, but has been in this country since the age of three and is a top student at her high school. Yet, unless the law changes soon, she will be unable to continue with her studies. She [...]

 Build on Cooperative Efforts to Create a More Vibrant Economy, Healthier Environment in Border Region Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Baja California Governor José Guadalupe Osuna Millán today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to continue to build upon their cooperative efforts on important issues in the California-Baja California border region. Specifically in the agreement, they [...]

First Person:
By Al Carlos Hernandez

 I spent the longest seventy-five minutes of my life at the Department of Motor Vehicles the other day. I viewed it as penance for not using new media and/or paying attention to snail mail directives. One would think that I had learned my lesson by now after the trauma I suffered [...]

By Steve Rodriguez
 The eating habits of my middle school students never fail to amaze me. Their habits are downright scary. Someone obviously forgot to tell them breakfast is the most important meal of the day. How else to explain what I see them munching on in the morning after they exit the local 7-11 convenience [...]

By Annette Fuentes
New America Media
 Two days after Pres. Barack Obama declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a national emergency, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a briefing Monday for ethnic news media in order to debunk fears about flu shots and encourage mass vaccinations as a public health imperative.
 With the overall message [...]

LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por José López Zamorano
 Como padre de tres hijos, no creo equivocarme cuando afirmo que ningún asunto es más importante que su salud, tanto física como mental. Sin salud no hay felicidad posible y nada remplaza un desarrollo personal libre de padecimientos.
 Aunque muchas enfermedades nos golpean sin aviso [...]

 El diabetes es una enfermedad que causa múltiples complicaciones médicas en pacientes que no llevan control adecuado. Si el diabetes está bajo buen control, estas complicaciones pueden prevenirse.
 Esta feria de salud le ofrecerá pláticas sobre una variedad de temas relacionados con el diabetes. El propósito es de proveer educación a la comunidad Latina sobre la [...]

What You Should Know Before we go San Diego’s Unfinished Revolution
By John P. Falchi
 Carrol Waymon came to San Diego in September of 1964 to become Executive Director of the Citizens’ Interracial Committee (CIC). He, and the group of Hispanic, Black and White leaders working with him accomplished a great deal to reduce the tremendous amount [...]

El impacto de la crisis económica en los latinos es examinado en la nueva serie de Radio Bilingüe
 Muchas familias a lo largo y ancho del país están sintiendo los terribles efectos de las actual crisis económica, pero probablemente nadie lo ha sentido tanto como los latinos, quienes han sido golpeados de manera más severa por [...]

Viviendas Múltiples Libre de Humo de Tabaco: El Futuro de San Diego
Smoke-Free For All San Diegans (SFASD)
  En los últimos tres años, Caridades Católicas y el programa Sin Humo para Todos los Habitantes de San Diego (Smoke-Free for All San Diegans SFASD) ha estado trabajando para reducir el impacto de familias expuestas al humo de [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 Herman Baca has been a small-business owner in National City for 40 years. Every year, he has paid for a business license for all those years, so when he renew the license earlier this year, he was surprised to find a new administrative fee attached to the regular tax.
 It was only $10.50, [...]

By Marcelo Ballvé
New America Media
 Is immigration reform back?
 Hoping to jump-start a major legislative drive on immigration reform in the U.S. Congress, more than 100 pro-reform House Democrats signed a letter reminding President Obama of his administration’s commitment to overhaul immigration.
 The letter was clearly meant to nudge the White House toward engaging an issue it has [...]

By Mariana Martinez
 Authorities in charge of gun control in the US have long been in the shadows in the international fight against drugs and drug trafficking, but this is rapidly changing under, putting them on a leading role.
 While a few years back, gun traffic was rarely thought of as a fueling factor for drug-cartel violence [...]

By Christina Hernandez
 With the Latino population set to triple by 2050, the already alarming number of cancer diagnoses in the Latino community could rise just as sharply, or even more drastically, according to a new compilation of research.
 “I see this as a train wreck that’s really waiting to happen,” said Lydia Buki, a licensed psychologist [...]