La Prensa San Diego

Commentary: By Bill Flores While there appears to be plenty of support in the white community for continuing the program of DUI checkpoints by the Escondido Police, there should be a clarification of facts regarding these suspicionless stops by police in search of drunk and/or unlicensed drivers. First, there is no evidence that checkpoints do [...]

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 Carmen Miranda On a little corner northeast of Escondido, behind the Escondido Humane Society, near East Valley Parkway, sits 1.5 acres of land leased by the Charros de Escondido equestrian group from the City of Escondido. Local Mexican-American cowboys have gathered there for over 40 years to practice and enjoy charreadas (Mexican rodeos), [...]

Editorial: District elections can either be a savior to a disenfranchised community or they can marginalize a community. District elections have had the impact of marginalizing a community in the City of San Diego where Hispanic influence, or power, has been limited to one district only, that being district 8. The newly created district 9 [...]

By Carmen Miranda     On a little corner Northeast of Escondido, Mexican charros have gathered for over 40 years. There they practice and enjoy charreadas (Mexican rodeos), music, food and family. This tradition has been passed down from generation to generation.     But an eviction notice to the charro association from the City of Escondido [...]

By Patrick Osio             For as long as can be remembered, San Diego County was home to a Western-European descendant population that politically and economically controlled the region. The other ethnic and racial group minorities were tolerated, as long as they were passive in their demands and submissive to the will of the majority.             [...]

Latino American Democratic Club members urge him to stop check points that are targeting the Hispanic community By America Barceló-Feldman – Amid criticism and bitter comments, Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher tried to explain his policy surrounding the controversial check points, to a skeptical crowd and where activists described his policies as anti-immigrant.  NORTH COUNTY [...]