La Prensa San Diego

Cardiff Native, former La Costa Canyon star to bolster midfield depth The San Diego Sockers announced the signing of midfielder Jason Santos to a contract for the remainder of the 2011-2012 season. Santoswill accompany the team on its trip toMonterrey,Mexicofor the upcoming FIFRA Championships. “Jason has been training hard with the Sockers Reserves and deserves an [...]

By Ernie McCray Saving Ethnic Studies is my latest enterprise because my home state, Arizona, just can’t shed itself of Jim Crow kind of thinking, going back to long before I was born and all through my growing up in Tucson in the 40’s and 50’s. Then the 60’s came along and the state had [...]

Wide open spaces and fresh air are pretty much foreign concepts to most Latino families who live in cramped urban areas or suburban neighborhoods with postage stamp-size yards, where pollution from car emissions or nearby factories are just facts of life — and far away from any national park. In fact, because of safety and [...]

Perspective: By Raul Rodriguez New America Media  BERKELEY— As President Obama delivered his third State of the Union Address, the 11 sentences he dedicated to addressing my current immigration status did little to instill in me any more optimism than did similar statements from the last State of the Union… or the one before that. [...]

By Teresa Wiltz America’s Wire  WASHINGTON— While achievement levels have improved considerably for minority elementary and middle school students, studies show academic performance among high school age African Americans and Hispanics has fallen to levels not seen in thirty years. How prevalent is the achievement gap at the high school level? On average, math and [...]

 By Marshall Fitz and Sarah Jane Glynn By next month Congress must extend the 2012 payroll tax cut to help boost our nation’s economic recovery. In 2011 this tax cut resulted in 122 million American households boosting their take-home-pay worth to the total tune of $120 billion. The extension and expansion of the payroll tax [...]

By Salvador Guerrero WASHINGTON– The United States isn’t the only country facing a contentious presidential election this year. Mexico will elect a new president in July, and some experts think the National Action Party (PAN) will be ousted from office by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which held power for 71 years before the PAN [...]

México del Norte Por Jorge Mújica Murias Dicen por ahí que en una competencia siempre que alguien gana alguien también pierde. En otra variante, digamos que cuando hay solamente dos competidores en una competencia, no hay primero y segundo lugar, sino solamente un ganador y un perdedor. La diatriba anterior viene a cuento porque la [...]

By Mariana Martínez Long lines snake through the halls at the San Diego Marriot. Women dressed in suits and men wearing ties, all holding on to their resumes and hopes of finding a job. This is a job fair with 17 companies and schools, including the army and the Border Patrol, seeking to find new [...]

  Por Mariana Martínez Las filas para entrar serpentean por los pasillos del hotel. Las mujeres en traje sastre y hombres de corbata desfilan por entre los puestos de reclutamiento en busca de trabajo. Esta es una feria de trabajo en la que 17 empresas y escuelas entre ellas las fuerzas armadas y la Patrulla [...]

Helix Water District Board President DeAna Verbeke announced that Director of Engineering Carlos Lugo has been selected as the new general manager of the Helix Water District. Director Verbeke noted, “After a comprehensive process with a number of qualified candidates, the board has determined that Carlos Lugo is the best person for the position. His [...]

El Centro de Inmigración para Mujeres y Niños (ICWC) es una organización sin fines de lucro que ofrece servicios legales de inmigración de bajos recursos para mujeres y niños a quienes le falta representación legal en California. ICWC se esfuerza para proporcionar seguridad y estabilidad para niños que han sido abusados, abandonados o descuidados y [...]

A remembrance: Fixin’ infertile men the old fashioned way  By Andy Porras  Just imagine if there were a Super Bowl of medical miracles, perhaps this year’s encounter would feature the Brinkley Goats vs. the Turek Tootsie Rolls. But enough fiction. A recent news story reports that a men’s health medical practice in San Francisco, headed [...]

LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos Por Luisa Fernanda Montero El 2012 es un año marcado por la actividad política, un año en el que se determinará quien regirá los destinos del país en el próximo cuatrienio. Esta semana el presidente Barack Obama inició oficialmente su campaña y la contienda por [...]

While cervical cancer affects all races, Latinas are diagnosed with cervical cancer nearly twice as often as Caucasian, African American and Asian Pacific Islander women. Latinas and African American women are also more likely to die of cervical cancer than Caucasian and Asian Pacific Islanders – due in large part to a lack of screenings [...]

Public Library Continues Its “American Book Discussion” Series in Black History Month with “Just Some Stories I Could Tell” The San Diego Public Library is proud to announce its annual Black History Month book discussion series, An American Book Discussion: Just Some of the Stories I Could Tell. The first of two sessions will feature [...]