By Pablo Jaime Sáinz La Prensa San Diego Burt Grossman says that he will use his experience as a former San Diego Charger to tackle everything that he sees is wrong with the Sweetwater Union High School District board:…
By: Audris Ponce, Beatriz Ramirez and Lawrence Barajas The Venture With all of the pressure to succeed in class and their social life, college students have turned to the drug Adderall to stay focused enough to get good grades….
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the United States’ southern border is effectively now the Mexican border with Guatemala. Alan Bersin said the level of cooperation…
By José Villa Hawaii Hispanic News WAIANAE,Hawaii – Stevina (Chan) Kiyabu owns Coquito’s Latin Cuisine Restaurant. She’s a product of a Hong Kong Chinese father and a Cali, Colombian mother, but her story is even more global. She was…
By Venessa Rivera Colon Habla News The stories I hear stay in my head. The woman who found breast cancer early on and is now a survivor living with her two beautiful children. My brother-in-law who was diagnosed with…
La Costa Latina NORTHERN FLORIDA — The Pew Institute reports that Florida’s Latino population is the third-largest in the nation. More than 4.2 million Hispanics reside in Florida which make up 8% of all Hispanics in the United States….
By AJ Vicens Cronkite News Service PEORIA, AZ – Action by Congress on comprehensive immigration reform would benefit the economies of Arizona, the U.S. and Mexico, former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Thursday. And presidential elections in the U.S….
By Deysi Cuevas Extra News Chicago’s recent surge in youth violence and homicide has gained international media attention. According to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago’s homicide rate in 2012 is 26.7 percent higher than last year through the end of…
By Catherine Rendón La Voz Latina In late August, Mexican-American author Luis Alberto Urrea and his wife, Cindy, visited Savannah. It was Urrea’s birthday and the couple was happy to be in Georgia as special guests of the Flannery…
By Danny Contreras CT Latino News As Latino voters are increasingly courted by political parties and their candidates, CTLatinoNews.com researched the Latino employment records of the state’s congressional delegation to provide a snapshot of how campaign speeches and promises…
By Nicole Chavez Borderzine EL PASO – After more than six years of negotiations with city, county and federal authorities around 300 families in two Canutillo colonias will have potable water running in their kitchens and bathrooms by the…
By Raul de la Cruz Rio Grande Guardian RIO GRANDE CITY – U.S. Texas Representative Henry Cuellar says an official from Customs and Border Protection has told him the agency does not have enough money right now to build…
By Pablo Jaime Sáinz La Prensa San Diego In 1969, a group of immigrant women got together to try to bring quality health care service to the underserved community of San Ysidro. Their dream was to make health care…
By José Villa Hawaii Hispanic News ITHACA, New York – Dr. Yajaira Sierra-Sastre is a materials scientist and educator with ten years of research experience in academic, federal, and private institutions. She is participating in the HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space…
By Gabriel Pilonieta-Blanco El Tiempo Hispano The initiative to launch a bilingual Charter School in the city of Wilmington, Delaware is booming. DELAWARE — For many years, to have a bilingual school has been the dream of María Matos,…
By Venessa Rivera Colon Habla News Rachel Matos is a 23 year old Latina artist residing in Miami, Florida. Born in San Diego, she moved to Puerto Rico at the age of 3. Rachel lived in Puerto Rico until…
By Dennise Rocha Bilingual Weekly MANTECA, CA- Dozens of farm workers and community supporters gathered across from ACE Tomato company’s headquarters in Manteca on Tuesday, August 21st, to demanding the company to implement a fair contract. “The process has…
By Giselle Guadrón La Prensa San Antonio San Antonio.- The number of Hispanic-owned businesses (HOB’s) has rapidly increased since 2002 in Texas and in the nation. This reality led to a study conducted by Dr. Bruce Kellison and Dr….
By Christina Elizabeth Rodriguez Extra News EXTRA had the opportunity to talk to Jesse Ruiz, vice president of the Chicago Board of Education about issues that have been in Chicago’s limelight recently. Via a phone conversation, Ruiz discussed longer…
By Lindsey Ruta and Annelise Russell News21/Cronkite News Service PHOENIX – Every month for the next two decades, 50,000 Latinos will turn 18 years old. With that many new eligible voters, and dramatic population growth expected, Latinos could dominate…
By Danya Hernandez Borderzine EL PASO — For three years a woman roamed the border region with an infectious disease, not knowing her health kept deteriorating and that she was endangering those closest to her. This is the story…
By John Lamb Hispanic Nashville There is a Mariachi Director at Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. His name is Alan Lambert, and he was hired to lead the city’s public school mariachi program, which was launched in May. Starting exclusively…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian EDINBURG,TX — If the Republican Party does not significantly increase its share of the Hispanic vote in Texas in the coming years it is “toast” as a governing party. That is the view…
By José Villa Hawaii Hispanic News SAN FRANCISCO, California — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was joined recently by White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to announce the…
Amigos805 Being overweight can have a devastating impact on a person’s lifestyle. Diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, sleep apnea and a number of other ailments can be traced back to the amount and kind of food we eat….
