La Prensa San Diego

The next Northwest Civic Association Town Hall Meeting will be held in the auditorium of the Chula Vista Civic Center Library (at 4th & F), Wednesday, Feb. 8th at 6:00 p.m.  Ed Brand, Superintendent of the Sweetwater Union High School District, will speak about the status of the district’s $644 million Proposition O Bond Program [...]

City of San Diego  Want development and density increase? Want more people, higher prices – yet few if any jobs paying wages at levels needed to live in what is called “affordable housing.” It seems these are the claims, also there seems to be many claims that it is the communities that are driving redevelopment; yet it [...]

The San Diego County Library is partnering with the Housing Opportunities Collaborative to offer free housing help and foreclosure prevention at monthly clinics throughout the year.  On Saturday, January 21 the clinic will be held at the Poway Branch Library, 13137 Poway Rd, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.  The HOC is a HUD-approved housing [...]

            A San Diego Superior Court Judge has granted the request of HAR Construction to drop Sweetwater Board President Pearl Quiñones from a civil lawsuit. In an action dated Dec. 22, 2011, Judge William Cannon dismissed Quiñones without prejudice. HAR Construction’s litigation against the district continues. TheSweetwaterUnionHighSchool Districtterminated HAR Construction from its contracts at Southwest [...]

Date/Time: Monday, January 16, 2012.  Doors open at 6:45am.  Two-hour program begins at 7:30am. Location: HiltonSan DiegoBayfront |One Park Boulevard,San Diego,CA  Cost:    Admission is $40 per person, $400 per table. Details: For ticket sales and more information, visit the Equality Alliance of San Diego County website or email AllPeoplesBreakfast@equalitysandiego.org.   The living legacy of the [...]

Dear Crossroaders and Friends:  We are hearing from a lot of you concerned about why various people have been left out of the DA’s ongoing investigation into the SUHSD/SWC corruption.  Some are asking where are Jim Cartmill and John McCann in all this.  We know that they have taken tens of thousands of dollars from [...]

San Diego Police Department Sex Crimes detectives arrested Jose Davila, age 53, for the sexual assault of a 20 year-old woman that occurred in Southcrest on December 30, 2011.  Davila voluntarily turned himself into detectives on Sunday, January 1, 2012, at 9:30 a.m.  Davila is a priest at St. Jude’s church located at 3751 Boston [...]

 Kids in Imperial Beach have a new opportunity to hone their cursive skills at the Imperial Beach Library, 810 Imperial Beach Blvd.  Starting January 3, the library is launching a Cursive Club aimed at elementary school students.  The Cursive Club will take place every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., with students spending the first three Tuesdays [...]

Deportation, Family Love, and Love Across Borders are focus of student-produced one-acts at San Diego Mesa College   Three one-act plays written, produced and performed in Spanish by college students will be showcased on Friday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Apolliad Theatre at San Diego Mesa College campus in Kearny Mesa. The production [...]

Forensic DNA Database Expansion: Growing Racial Inequities, Eroding Civil Liberties and Diminishing Returns, a new report released by Generations Ahead, illustrates how communities of color, immigrants, and youth have become ensnared in a forensic dragnet of local, state, and federal DNA database collection programs.  Despite the growing public demand for a fair, accurate criminal justice [...]

Submitted to the college by professors Phil Saenz and Alejandro Orozco Who Support Our Students (SOS), is a coalition of professors and students based at Southwestern College in Chula Vista. Phil Saenz, Professor of Political Science and Alejandro Orozco, Professor of Philosophy, are the faculty organizers of the event. What SOS will hold a rally [...]

 A special hiring event for veterans and military spouses is being held at Liberty Station’s NTC Promenade @ Corky McMillin Companies Event Center THIS THURSDAY!   Please help get the word out to all the veterans & military service members in the community about this free event for their benefit.  Over 300 veterans and military spouses [...]

   Experts Analyze What this Means for the Politics in 2012 and Beyond   Phoenix, AZ – Amidst a busy election day, one of the most talked about races was in Arizona, where the architect of the state’s notorious “papers please” immigration law, State Senator Russell Pearce was decisively defeated by fellow Republican Jerry Lewis in [...]

In the wake of HB 56, Alabama’s extreme immigration law, students have been bullied by their peers simply for looking Hispanic, and now even one teacher has singled out a student because she looked foreign — even though she is an American citizen. The ACLU reports that a teacher gave Cineo Gonzales’ young daughter a pamphlet in Spanish about [...]

County Health and School Officials Working Together To Notify Students and Staff  An individual at Hilltop Drive Elementary School was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) and may have exposed students and staff to the disease, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) reported today. HHSA is working in close collaboration with the [...]

 Harry Pachon died yesterday morning with family by his side. He was 66 years of age. Harry Pachon was battling Parkinson’s disease and had been confronted with many complications this past year. We all join in expressing ourcondolences for Harry’s family, his wife Barbara, and their children.  His colleague, Jack H. Knott, Dean of the [...]

County Health and School Officials Working Together to Notify Students and Staff     An individual who attends Southwestern College was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) and may have exposed students and staff to the disease, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) reported today. HHSA is working in close collaboration with college [...]