La Prensa San Diego

   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 [...]

    Chula Vista High School’s new performing arts center will not be named after William Virchis, instead it will bear the name of Jack Tygett, a performer and teacher of 30 years in the district. The theater inside the center will be name after Virchis. Both gentlemen were worthy and this compromise seems to work [...]

   “Ethics complaint filed against Chula Vista councilwoman,” is latest headline in what is turning out to be a long list of missteps by councilwoman Pamela Bensoussan. First there was the bankruptcy issue, her desire to raise taxes, the backroom wheeling and dealing with the Port Commission, and the general distrust she has generated amongst [...]

   Old news but well worth repeating. The Democratic Party and it’s candidates are supposed to be about progressive politics but it seems like Chula Vista councilwoman Pamela Bensoussan missed the memo on that one. Keeping two different email accounts for city business, one for the public review the other for her back room deals…. [...]

   Es muy difícil writing Tezzy today and listening to the Aztecs in the Tournament. Go Aztecs…. Hope los Hispanos who went to Arizona to cheer on the Aztecs took their papers… don’t want to be deported by the racist governor…    While Chula Vista Mayor Cox talks about the economic turnaround, in her sTate [...]

    There is a move afoot to rename the Coronado Bridge to the Ronald Regan-Coronado Bridge. We are sure all the Republicans in Coronado like the idea but this doesn’t’ sit to well with the Chicanos of Chicano Park. Chicano Park and the murals and Ronald Regan are an oxymoron. Anyway if you want nip [...]

   San Diego city leaders decided it was okay to raise your water rates…. Great another extra cost on top of all the other extra cost… notice the gas prices are slowly creeping up??? What makes the water rate increase hard to swallow its is based in part on the fact that residents are using [...]

   So what does $1 billion dollars get you when you are trying to build a high-tech fence along the border???? Not much, to be exact 53 miles of border fence. Of course as we said all along, a border fence won’t stop those looking for a better life. It only cost the taxpayer only [...]

    Juan Vargas has been in office all of one month and already he is earning awards. Seems that CDF Firefighters are enamored with all that he did in during his first week in office earning him the distinction of legislature of the year… we wonder what he did to earn such an award… quien [...]

   Let’s see if we got this straight… councilman Ben Hueso first illegally lends his big brothers’ campaign $25,000; then after his big brother loses, Hueso the younger, hires two of the big bros campaign workers at a couple of thousand dollars every two weeks until Hueso leaves office… and lastly Hueso allows a homeless [...]

Post Election Tid Bits:    National City has a First: First time a mother Rosie Alvarado, school board, and daughter Mona Rios, city council, are elected at the same time. Mona earned her election the hard way, through hard work.    While Mona was working hard Alejandra Sotelo-Solis was busy trying to find shortcuts and [...]

    Shirley Horton has left her position as CEO of the Downtown San Diego Partnership to become development director at the South Bay Community Services. This could be viewed as a step down …. unless Horton is considering a re-entry into Chula Vista politics then this would be a great first step…. quien sabe      [...]

   Hijole, La Prensa web page is muy, muy popular seems el jefe needs to buy more bandwidth, too many people logging on at the same time shut the site down. Come guys it is up all week spread it around a bit….    Outgoing Sweetwater general manager, Mark Rogers, made good use with his [...]

   Russell Coronado is confused and looking for answers. Coronado announced his move to North County and not sure what to do about his seat on the Chula Vista Elementary School Board. Here is a suggestion, don’t delay in vacating your seat, do it now and let the voters decide in Nov., on your replacement. [...]