La Prensa San Diego

Editorial: Prop. B is extensive in its wording but in reality it boils down to a couple of simple points: the initiative would give most new employees 401(k)s instead of guaranteed pensions and 2) it attempts to impose a five-year freeze on employees’ pensionable pay. Pretty simple right? And with the city of San Diego [...]

Commentary: By Raoul Lowery Contreras The U.S. Marines carefully worked their way through the Iraqi village on foot towards their vehicles outside the village. On both sides of the road shops with metal corrugated roll-up doors faced the road. Iraqis stood outside their shops sullenly watching the Marines walk by; obviously disliking these invaders of [...]

Commentary: By Humberto Caspa “I want to quit smoking,” pleaded Paul Wells of 23 years of age. He was five when he, his brother and sister arrived in the United States from Poland after a long adoption process. He had it all, a wonderful adoptive mother, the nation safest city to live in, an excellent [...]

Comentario: Por Maribel Hastings America’s Voice La declaración del presidente Barack Obama de que apoya los matrimonios entre personas del mismo sexo se dio tras un proceso de evolución, según afirmó, y de una cuestión de principios, agregó. Es un arriesgado paso político a meses de los comicios generales que le ayudará con un amplio [...]

By Rodolfo F. Acuña I recently relented to pressure of a former student to go on Facebook. He persuaded on its usefulness as an organizing tool. Once I got on FB I could see that I could not break my classroom habits and I feared that I would come across as too peachy. The more [...]

Editorial: Bob Filner, throughout his 19 years as Congressman of the 51st District, has served this diverse community of South San Diego with energy, enthusiasm, and dedication. It can never be said that Filner was an absentee representative. You call Bob Filner’s office, he responds and he is in the community. Filner has proven himself [...]

Editorial: Four years ago we endorsed Pamela Bensoussan for Chula Vista City Council. Over the years we have grown to regret that endorsement. The person we met before the election, the candidate we endorsed, was not the person that became a council person! We believed that Bensoussan cared about the community only later to find [...]

Commentary: By Sheldon Richman The partisan squabbling over the killing of Osama bin Laden is a typical election-year distraction, effectively squelching discussion of more important matters one year after the execution of the al-Qaeda chief executive. Aided by cable-TV talking heads, Americans are spending too much time speculating over whether presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt [...]

Commentary: By Maribel Hastings As frenzied political junkies begin to chatter about the fight for the Latino vote in November, another fight is brewing in Washington this spring. Last week, the highest court in the land heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB 1070. The Court has the potential to officially [...]

Democratic Party’s Abandonment of the Core Commentary: By Rodolfo F. Acuña The fitness exercise pilates, from my limited understanding of the exercise method, works on the principle of developing “a strong core or center (tones abdominals while strengthening the back), and improving coordination and balance.” The principle fascinates me because it can be applied to [...]

Comentario: By Maribel Hastings America’s Voice El nuevo “talking point” de los republicanos hispanos al hablar de inmigración es decir que el presidente Barack Obama no cumplió su promesa de impulsar una reforma de inmigración durante el primer año de su gestión cuando los demócratas controlaban ambas cámaras del Congreso. Y lo sazonan agregando que [...]

Editorial: Four years ago in 2008, community members felt that it was important to have a city attor-ney elected by a majority, to serve and be responsive to the community as an elected official. This newspaper supported that idea and Prop. Q passed with over 58% majority vote. In 2010 Glen Googins became the first [...]

Editorial: Proposition 28 would change the term limits of the State Legislature to a total of 12 years in office in either the State Assembly or the State Senate. Under current term limits, politicians are limited to a total of 14 years in office—including a maximum of six years in the State Assembly and eight [...]

Commentary: By Arturo Vargas Imagine that you are standing on a track, about to run toward a distant finish line. Suddenly, a wall appears between you and the finish line, and then another, and yet another after that. Over the course of the past decade, states have raced each other to construct more and higher [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court, and La Mordida Commentary: By Rodolfo F. Acuña Direct forms of political control are easy to figure out. For a time, laws and police agencies can keep things together. However, most institutions and societies depend on social control to deceive people into thinking that they live in a democracy. They use [...]

Commentary: By Bill Flores While there appears to be plenty of support in the white community for continuing the program of DUI checkpoints by the Escondido Police, there should be a clarification of facts regarding these suspicionless stops by police in search of drunk and/or unlicensed drivers. First, there is no evidence that checkpoints do [...]