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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Editorial: This past week the Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney went out on the campaign trail along with Florida Senator Marco Rubio in what could be described as a vice presidential trial run. Rubio received a warm welcome among the folks at this town hall meeting in Aston, PA. Rubio, of Cuban descent, was their [...]

Editorial: There are two health related bills in Sacramento that deserve support. The bills are Timely Access to Birth Control (AB 2348) sponsored by Assembly member Holly J. Mitchell and Safe and Early Access to Reproductive Health Care (AB 1338) sponsored by Senator Christine Kehoe. At the heart of both bills is the goal to [...]

Guest Editorial: By Dave Zirin Howard Cosell once said famously that sports and politics don’t mix. Yet the more you stare at the world of sports it becomes obvious that it’s not “sports and politics” that don’t mix, but sports and a certain kind of politics. If an athlete wants to “support the troops,” rally [...]

Editorial: It was billed as a mayoral debate on education, where the four candidates for mayor, Bob Filner, Bonnie Dumanis, Carol DeMaio, and Nathan Fletcher for an hour and a half shared their knowledge and vision on education held at the University of San Diego. Education is one of the most important issues to voters [...]

Editorial: Last week we published a commentary by Sylvia Puente entitled “Immigration Isn’t Everything: The Latino Vote Will Not Be Blindly Cast.” This has been our sentiment over the many years. This point was further highlighted this week, when we sat down with a delegation from Africa which was in San Diego to learn more [...]

Editorial: The Chula Vista Elementary School Board is once again going to pick the next school board member to fill the seat being vacated by board member Russell Coronado. This will be the third appointment to this board in recent history, sadly denying the voters the opportunity to elect their representative. The sad part about [...]

Editorial: We can’t help ourselves, we are caught up in March Madness and the fact that our own Aztecs are once again in the big tournament. For those of our readers who are not big sports fans, you know who you are, March Madness is when the best college basketball programs for the year compete [...]

Editorial: As the race for mayor in the city of San Diego heats up, the main topic of this year’s campaign will be Pension Reform. The main proponent behind the reform effort on the ballot this June is mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio. He, in essence, is running two campaigns: the Pension Reform Initiative and of [...]

Guest Editorial: By Rob Sobhani News that the Supreme Court will review Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration should be welcome because it will settle the question of whether state law can supersede immigration powers belonging to the federal government. The controversial law, S.B. 1070, gives police unprecedented power to detain and check the documents of [...]

Editorial: The Chula Vista Police Department has adopted a new pro-gram that will post, on the internet, those apartment complexes and units which require numerous police responses for issues such as domestic violence, disturbing the peace, loud noise and other issues that require a police response. The program is called the Apartment Safety Project. Some [...]

Editorial: It first caught our attention a couple of weeks ago when one of the many e-newsletters we receive noted the story of the city council candidate in Arizona that had to take an English test to determine if she understood English well enough to run for office. Arizona is the epicenter for everything anti-Hispanic. [...]

Editorial: A couple of weeks ago the San Diego County Board of Su-pervisors came one step closer to changing the way the Supervisors re-draw their districts every ten years. Couple this with the recently voter-passed term limits placed on the Board of Supervisors and change is inevitable. For decades the County Board of Supervisors has [...]