La Prensa San Diego

Public Ed students cannot be charged fees to participate!    East Lake High School parents were refunded the money they paid for their children to participate on track and field sports team last month. Parents paid $135 for their children to play on the Otay Ranch High School basketball team and may request refunds. That [...]

AT&T y T-Mobile puede beneficiar a la comunidad latina Estimado Editor:    Aunque la propuesta consolidación entre AT&T y T-Mobile ha recibido mucha atención en la prensa, un asunto que no ha recibido suficiente atención es la manera en que la combinación de ambas redes tecnológicas beneficiará a los consumidores, especialmente los consumidores latinos.    [...]

Redistricting being manipulated by a few    If you attended the [re-districting] meeting last night (April 19) at the Malcolm X Library – tell me, was not the behavior of those holding political and economic power in City Council District 4 not illustrative of institutionalized racism?    Was not the super-majority of those in attendance [...]

Dear La Prensa community,    A bridal shower that I hosted for my daughter has come under scrutiny recently for no other reason, I believe, than to further some people’s political agendas. It was a beautiful event to celebrate a milestone in my daughter’s, and my family’s, life. Many of those in attendance have come [...]

Brisenia story contains a factual error    Mark Day’s February 18 article, “The Brisenia Flores Murder: Why the U.S. Media Buried the Story,” contains a glaring factual error that needs to be corrected.    In the article, Mr. Day states that convicted murderer Shawna Forde had served as a spokesperson for the Federation for American [...]

In Support of Planned Parenthood    As a minister who has long followed the work of Planned Parenthood, I am dismayed at the latest attempt to curtail funding for the outstanding work it performs in communities across America in hundreds of clinics. Eliminating family planning programs would result in millions of women across the country [...]

An Open Letter to the Community of National City: Time has come to settle contract dispute    As National City community members with a history of community involvement and school volunteerism, we have serious concerns with the deteriorating relationship between the National School District’s School Board and its teachers. As of this afternoon, February 3rd, [...]

   I read a news story “Cleanup of Rio’s slums drives out the poorest,” perhaps the newspapers in Rio call the neighborhood where the working class lives “slums,” here in San Diego, they are simply called neighborhoods. And, that the “mixed blessing” Juliana Barbassa of the Associated Press writes about, is it not the pushing-out [...]

How I Think The Universe is Composed and Function    What prompted me to bring up this story of my theory of the Universe, is the fact that about a week or so ago, I heard on the news that we have discovered a sun three hundred times bigger than ours.    When I was [...]

A rebuttal to the October 8th commentary by National School District Governing Board President Rosie Alvarado    President Alvarado states that the budget woes are the cause of the imposition – the imposition of punitive working conditions in the areas of teacher association rights and transfer and reassignment rights have nothing to do with the budget, [...]

   I am currently the President of the National School District Board. Recently an article that profiled Ted Godshalk (published Oct. 1, 2010) who is running for one of the three seats of the three seats of the National School District Governing Board that will be decided in the November election. There were several inaccurate [...]

Republicans just don’t get it!    I have read the Republican Party’s recently published plan, A Pledge to America. It isn’t complicated. The short, 48-page outline is loaded with bold statements of re-claiming democracy and shifting government priorities, but it also mentions a keystone to the party’s platform: family values. We’ve heard this argument before, [...]

Shame on you for this cheap shot at Crossroads: La Prensa:  Sept. 10 “Crossroads II seems a bit peeved over a public relations contract associated with the future building going on at Southwestern College. Crossroaders are calling this a waste of taxpayer money… okay… hopefully they will go after the Sweetwater school board and the [...]

Sweetwater Authority board members cut out the junkets before taxing the citizens    On behalf of South Bay residents and ratepayers we unequivocally oppose the 5.6% Proposed Adjustments in Rates for Water Service Fees.    Reasons for opposing the proposed rate increase are as followed:    1. Recent news reports that exposed a culture of [...]

Locally a bigger issue than Arpaio    I totally agree with your opinion regarding Arpaio’s visit to San Diego County and his outrageous statements about Hispanics.    My big concern, however, is not Arpaio himself, but more importantly, the support that he and his buddies like Bilbray get from very powerful and influential media channels [...]

Two Thumbs Up for the Chula Vista PD    As everybody knows I usually have something snide to say about everything and everybody but I have to change my tune. I am going to have to switch digits and this time give two THUMBS up to Lt. Phil Collum and his north-side neighborhood police force [...]

Jerry Sanders Wants a Sales Tax Increase?  Bring it on! Prepare to LOSE, Jerry – big-time    Let’s see if I can summarize what’s happening. San Diego is going down the tubes.  Reforms are being blocked by the labor union owned (well, rented) city council. We are a grossly mismanaged city held up to nationwide [...]