La Prensa San Diego

The seventeen year old only brought Skittles and tea to that gunfight … an attorney’s perspective Commentary: By Guadalupe Gonzalez On February 26, 2012, the seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin walked along a common area in the complex where his dad’s girlfriend lived. He carried tea and candy. He wore a hoodie. Mr. Martin was apparently spotted [...]

Commentary: By Juan Blanco Prada Latin American countries are rightfully fed up with fighting Washington’s war on drugs. In the four decades since President Nixon declared the war on drugs, its battles have been fought predominantly in Latin American nations — leaving behind a trail of death and corruption while failing to achieve any of [...]

Commentary: By Chuck Rocha The only way for Latinos to directly influence public policy is to elect politicians who will represent the needs, dreams and desires of our community. There are currently 21 million voting-age Latinos in the United States. Unfortunately, only 52% of these Latinos are registered to vote and, in 2010, only 31% [...]

Commentary: By Rodolfo F. Acuña Aside from the injustices in Arizona, i.e., the scraping of a highly successful education program, the evident war against Mexicans, and the nullification of the U.S Constitution, I was seduced to the struggle by David A. Morales’ “Three Sonoran” blogs in the Tucson Citizen. His crusade against the white business [...]

Next Wednesday the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on the anti-immigrant Arizona law SB 1070. This law promotes discrimination based on the way people look and speak and that is un-American. The Arizona law, and a number of other copycat laws in states like Alabama and Georgia, encourages discrimination against all of people of [...]

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 [...]

Commentary: By Marian Wright Edelman Millions of children in America are denied the opportunity to receive a fair and high quality education. In March, the U.S. Department of Education released new information showing that children of color face harsher discipline, have less access to rigorous course offerings, and are more often taught by lower paid [...]

Comentario: Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D. El abandono de Rick Santorum de las primarias republicanas da prácticamente inicio a las aspiraciones de Mitt Romney de alcanzar la Casa Blanca. Recién, ahora, Romney puede dormir tranquilo sin pensar o tener pesadillas de críticas incisivas de la gente de su propio partido político. Recién, ahora, Romney puede pensar [...]

Commentary: By Carmen Miranda The City of Escondido has demonstrated once again how NOT to run a city government. With the evidence presented by the ACLU and documentary filmmaker John Carlos Frey that Escondido has been profiting on the backs of immigrants and the poor with towed vehicles from driver license checkpoints, City Manager Clay [...]

Commentary: By Elaine Sierra As a new entrant into the labor pool in 1963, I made the minimum wage — $1.25 an hour. But I was among multitudes of women who then earned only 59 percent of the compensation earned by men. We had a long way to go to reach parity with male coworkers, [...]

Commentary: By Raoul Lowery Contreras Not since the armies of the United States and Mexico chased Apache hero Geronimo all over Arizona and Northern Mexico has the United States paid much attention to Arizona until a car bomb killed a reporter who was investigating deep corruption of Arizona Republican politicians who were bought and paid [...]

Crossroads II in Chula Vista wants a signature park on the bay front… no problem with that, but as a part of their argument for this park they are promoting a boat repair yard as a tourist attraction… nothing more than I want to do on a sunny day than watch somebody sandblast a boat [...]

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 [...]

Commentary: By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media There was never much doubt that if the Supreme Court ever got a chance to decide the constitutionality of the health care reform law that it would be in for rough sledding from the court’s five conservatives. The three days of court questioning on the law more [...]

Commentary: By Rodolfo F. Acuña It has always been difficult to convince Anglo-Americans that they should know more about Latinos. It did not seem to matter to Anglos that their ignorance spawned stereotypes that damaged Mexican American children. Even after World War II and the Korean Wars when Mexican American proportionately received more Medal of [...]

Filner represents the best of education as mayoral candidate Of all the Mayoral Candidates, Bob Filner is best connected to the interests of the rank and file. Speaking with conviction, Mr. Filner supports a collaborative approach in regard to City Hall and our local school district. His common sense ideas including the use of city [...]

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 [...]