By John Newton La Voz Latina SAVANNAH, GA — If you have attended any of Savannah’s Latino festivals on River Street or Port Wentworth’s annual feast of Our Lady Of Guadalupe, you have seen the artistic talents of Adolfo…
By Ron J. Jackson Jr. Oklahoma Watch HEAVENER — Atop Poteau Mountain, cloaked by white oak, black locust and other towering trees, sits the mysterious runestone. Ever since its discovery in 1874, experts have passionately debated whether the runic…
Local News, South
Debate underscores controversy about Pre-K 4 in San Antonio
Oct 29, 2012, 12:01 PM 0
By Angela Covo La Prensa San Antonio.- Should the city step in and try to reinvent pre-K at a cost of a quarter of a billion dollars? Mayor Julian Castro and County Commissioner Kevin Wolff went toe-to-toe about the…
Local News, Southwest
Commentary: Mexico’s new administration needs to make border security a priority
Oct 26, 2012, 9:59 AM 0
By Nelson Balido Rio Grande Guardian SAN ANTONIO – A study released earlier this year by the Pew Hispanic Center caught my attention, and its findings might require observers of U.S.-Mexico relations to recalibrate their thinking. According to Pew…
General, Local News, South
Houston schools energize local neighborhoods to vote early
Oct 25, 2012, 12:00 AM 0
By Ashley Villalon The Venture Student decorated banners and live music filled the streets of the Greater Northside Monday morning as schools join together to march in an effort to increase voter turnout. The “Get Out to Vote” parade…
Local News, Northeast
Connecticut’s Latino Media Outlets Wonder: Where Are The Campaign Dollars?
Oct 23, 2012, 9:52 AM 0
CTLatinoNews.com In recent months it is difficult to tune into a news program, listen to radio talk shows or pick up a newspaper without reading about the crucial Latino vote. That is exactly what has many of those who…
General, Local News, Northeast
Two Latina students honored by MA Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Oct 23, 2012, 12:00 AM 0
Rumbo News Commissioner Heidi L. Reed from the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) visited Northern Essex Community College recently to honor two Lawrence students who have been participating in the Commission’s Summer Transition to…
Local News, Southwest
Two more Arizona sites win national historic landmark designation
Oct 22, 2012, 10:20 AM 0
By Cale Ottens Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior has declared two Arizona sites national historic landmarks – one from the state’s prehistory and the other from a darker time in modern history. Interior Secretary…
By Frank X. Moraga Amigos805 Survey says: Catholics strongly favor Obama. Evangelicals divided. Rapidly growing Latino support for same-sex marriage After a lively political debate this week, President Barack Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney have been busy…
Local News, Southwest
High-cost zero-tolerance strategy shows little effect on illegal immigration
Oct 18, 2012, 9:57 AM 1
By Christina Marie Duran Borderzine EL PASO — The U.S. government started Operation Streamline a “zero-tolerance” border enforcement strategy, at the Del Rio sector in Texas in 2005 in an attempt to stem the flow of millions of undocumented…
Local News, South
A son-in-law remembers the man, the cause and all who he inspired as Champion of Farmerworkers’ rights – Cesar Chavez
Oct 17, 2012, 12:37 PM 0
By Richard Ybarra La Voz As news spread last week that President Obama was coming to Kern County, California. to name Cesar Chavez’s gravesite and home a national monument, the e-mail messages started pouring in. Questions arose as to…
Local News, West
World Innovators Blaze Through the Region During Tijuana Innovadora
Oct 16, 2012, 8:54 AM 0
By Geneva Vallejo La Prensa San Diego As of this week, Tijuana is in the international spotlight for an array of industries varying from technology to the culinary arts, fashion, philanthropy and education to health care. All the attention…
Local News, South
Georgia migrant worker gives back to community after receiving the gift of life
Oct 12, 2012, 8:54 AM 1
By John Newton La Voz Latina TOOMBS COUNTY, GEORGIA — Antonio Diego doesn’t act like a man who was facing a death sentence just four years ago. Today, the deep lines in the wiry Guatemalan’s face break into a…
Great Plains, Local News
A Panhandle Explosion: Influx of immigrants rekindling economic growth in Guymon, Oklahoma
Oct 11, 2012, 9:17 AM 1
By Graham Lee Brewer Oklahoma Watch GUYMON, OK — It’s a weekday morning, and downtown Guymon is bustling. Guatemalans walk into a clothing store, passing a small group of Mexicans chatting on the sidewalk. Across the street, a man…
By Wayne Jebian CTLatinoNews.com CONNECTICUT — With health care as one of the largest areas of employment for Latinos, a four month old strike by 700 workers at nursing home facilities operated by HealthBridge Management in Newington, Danbury and…
By Sandra Treviño Extra News Despite the violence that continues to plague Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, there abounds a sense of hope thanks to the efforts of one of its long-time advocates, Marina Alonso. Her charismatic demeanor,…
General, Local News, Southwest
Hispanic U.S. history traced from Columbus to 21st Century
Oct 8, 2012, 8:42 AM 0
Dr. Lino García, Jr. Rio Grande Guardian EDINBURG, TX – On October 12, 1492, Cristóbal Colón and his Spanish crew aboard three ships, La Pinta, La Niña and La Santa María, sailed from the mother country of Spain and…
Local News, South
Honduran Experts Examining Disability Issues Visit Pensacola
Oct 5, 2012, 8:45 AM 0
La Costa Latina PENSACOLA, FL—Two Honduran advocates for the disabled spent time in Pensacola in September to meet with local groups concerning disability rights, therapy, and educational opportunities. The visitors, both blind, were accompanied by their personal assistants and…
Local News, Southwest
Firms worry that ending tomato pact with Mexico could spark larger trade tiff
Oct 4, 2012, 7:52 AM 0
By Joe Henke Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Florida growers have started a tomato fight that some fear will turn in to a larger trade tiff between the United States and Mexico – possibly threatening Arizona’s largest foreign market….
By Dennis M. Ayotte, Jr La Prensa de San Antonio Kidney disease is the 8th leading cause of death in the United States according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Moreover, an estimated 31 million people in…
Local News, Southwest
Nahuatl, the Aztec language that once graced Texas’ Canutillo Elementary displaced by pragmatism
Oct 2, 2012, 7:43 AM 0
By Meili Robles Borderzine CANUTILLO, Tx. – While many schools are integrating bilingual studies into their programs, one teacher went beyond the two-language system at Canutillo Elementary to include Nahuatl, the Aztec language. Carlos Aceves, a fifth grade teacher…
General, Local News, West
A new study examines the behavior of smokers among people from Mexico and Mexican Americans
Oct 1, 2012, 12:00 AM 0
By Dennis Rocha Bilingual Weekly SACRAMENTO, CA – Led by researchers at UC Davis, the first study of smoking and transnational migration from Mexico to the United states and that of Mexican Americans born in the United States start…
Local News, South
Op-ed: 40th Commemoration of La Raza Unida Party stirs honest reflection
Sep 28, 2012, 8:44 AM 0
La Voz de Austin EL PASO — They came from all over the country. They came to remember what happened 40 years ago in El Paso when more than 3,000 delegates from 25 states participated in the first La…
East, Local News
Op-ed: Frequency of “illegal immigrant” higher than similar terms outside immigration beat
Sep 26, 2012, 9:19 AM 0
By John Lamb Hispanic Nashville The following is my response to Is ‘Illegal Immigrant’ the Right Description? on the Public Editor’s Journal blog written by Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor of the New York Times. It’s not the single use…
Local News, Northeast
Venezuelan-born Rafael Reif and the Road to MIT’s Presidency
Sep 25, 2012, 9:29 AM 0
By Angela Millan Epstein CTLatinoNews.com Rafael Reif speaks slowly with the clarity of an engineer’s mind and the matter of fact attitude of a person whose life and experiences have led him to hold one of the most important…
