La Prensa San Diego

 Chula Vista civic group Crossroads canceled their long running Third Thursday Breakfast meeting, to have it revived by Councilwoman Pat Aguilar and repositioned as Pat Aguilar’s Breakfast Open Office Hours to be held every Third Thursday… This could raise some ethic questions… especially if invites are only generated via Crossroads email list…. Scott Peters who [...]

Accountability is a buzz word we hear all the time. That is why the voters passed a law that held politicians accountable when it comes to passing a real budget. Seems they don’t like that so they are suing so that next time they pass a crappy budget the State Controller won’t dock their pay… [...]

Sweetwater Union High School District is the district that just keeps on giving…. Latest news story has alleged a whole bunch of food missing and supposedly being sold on the side… seems like it was a family enterprise with the family embedded throughout the cafeteria staff… While Sweetwater is getting all the bad publicity, it [...]

The corruption allegations against the South Bay school board members may be big time but when compared to the really big time players it is small potatoes. Duke Cunningham is probably laughing calling them rookies after he pleaded guilty to accepting more than $2 million in bribes. There is one nagging question about DA Dumanis’ [...]

Hijole, the caca hit the fan this week with the DA sweeping in and scoping up computers and documents from Quinones, Lopez, and Ricasa. All board members at Sweetwater. Not to mention ex-board member Greg Sandoval. What a way to spend the Christmas vacation…. From we have read and gathered it all has to do [...]

   Think you have it bad here in the good old USA when it comes to wages Mexico just raised their minimum wage by 4.2% or 18 cents…. for example the minimum wage in Chiapas is $4.34 per day… no wonder immigrants are grateful for all the hard jobs/work they find crossing the border. They [...]

   Rhode Island governor has a problem with word Christmas so instead of using the word for the states’ annual Christmas tree lighting celebration he has decided to call the event the “holiday” tree lighting event…. what a grinch, maybe he will grow a heart at some point.      Another governor having trouble with free [...]

   Herman Cain is this presidential campaign’s Sarah Palin, Tea Party favorite who provides more of an entertainment value than actual presidential timer.     Nathan Fletcher announces his NEW coalition of Latinos to boost his run for mayor of San Diego. That is all well and good, but how come he didn’t have a coalition [...]

   The 35,000-member California Medical Association has called for the legalization of marijuana, the largest medical group in the nation to advocate that position. They said legalization was the best way to ensure that proper research on the drug was conducted. The decision marks a major political victory for pro-legalization forces. Hey vatos sooner or [...]

Jose Hernandez, the farmworker who became a NASA astronaut, has announced that he is running for Congress in the Tracy/Modesto area of Califas. Hernandez became known for his tweets in Spanish, while in space and his position on immigration reform once he was back on earth. By the way he has nearly 208,000 tweet followers [...]

   Bob Castañeda still contemplating on whether or not to move to Chula Vista and run for CV city council seat. For those not familiar Bob is brother to CV city councilman Steve… are we looking at a beginning of a Kennedy-isk dynasty???? Let’s see if he has the huevos to take on Bensousan!    [...]

Tezzy is going to be short but sweet this week.    Southwestern college considering PLAs, union friendly contracts, comes as no surprise with the board dominated with union friendly members. Look to see more union friendly actions taken by the board over the next few years.    Sweetwater Union High School District board is considering district only [...]

    Tezzy where have you been???? Este Indo has been muy ocupado working many jobs trying to stay out of the poor house. It has been tough the last couple of years, but as my tax man dice you are one tough hombre… a survivor. Hijole I guess so…     It was good to see [...]

   Don’t know if you need any other reason to go to the SD Latino Film Festival than the fact that all the films are excellent, but if you do need inspiration the film “Without Men”, starring Eva Longoria and Kate del Castillo, is “buzzing” on the web due to a love scene between Longoria [...]

    Republicans say they are going to spend $3 million in recruiting 100 Hispanic leaders to run for office. First question is if they are leaders do they really need recruiting and what does the $3 million get you, what are they going to do run ads/infomercials on becoming a Hispunic candidate???      Chula Vista [...]

    Sweetwater Unified did the right thing in terminating Superintendent Gandara, but did they have to give the farm away???? $400K and lifetime retirement benefits. Hijole, Gandara got his money and is back in Tejas relaxing….     Sweetwater school board meeting was raucous and a little disappointing to see professionals act like hooligans… with Bertha [...]

  Disgruntled with the Democratic Party and the Republican Party some Hispanics have created their own “party”, the Tequila Party… Haven’t heard of it, you will soon enough, the Tequila Party will be going out on tour and may come to a city near you…     Who or whomever thought of the tequila party must [...]