La Costa Latina PENSACOLA, FL — Four years ago when Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan was asking the community to vote for him, he had a brief encounter with the editor of La Costa Latina at New York Nick’s in downtown Pensacola. At that time, he said that he intended on keeping the previous sheriff’s [...]
Chicago’s Pilsen: An environmentally conscious community
By Christina E. Rodriguez Extra News CHICAGO — Two years ago, the City of Chicago Department of Environment commissioned its fourth community study in the Pilsen neighborhood. Lead by a team which included anthropologists from The Field Museum’s division of Environment, Culture and Conservation, staff from the Chicago Cultural Alliance and staff from Casa Michoacán, a [...]
Local Latino blind student will represent California in national competition
By Pablo Jaime Sáinz La Prensa San Diego SAN DIEGO — Ricardo Herrera lost his sight when he was one and a half years-old, due to an eye infection. But that hasn’t been an impediment for him to succeed and to achieve what other kids his age haven’t even dreamed about. Ricardo, who is now [...]
Hoping A Vandalized Mural Becomes A Call To Action
By Adrian Florido Fronteras News Desk SAN DIEGO — On Sunday, residents of San Diego’s Sherman Heights neighborhood woke up to find an important community mural had been vandalized. The mural adorns the outer wall of a Market Street store, where for more than 30 years it’s depicted scenes from the neighborhood’s Mexican-American community. But [...]
Can a piece of paper block border smuggling tunnels? New law will try
By Brandon Ross Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada is only half-joking when he describes the problem of border-smuggling tunnels that criss-cross under the streets of Nogales. “One of these days, we’re going to be a giant sinkhole,” Estrada said of the town where scores of tunnels have been discovered [...]
Fighting police checkpoints while pressing for a dream
By Cesar Arredondo Amigos805 Activists use the latest technologies to help undocumented immigrant motorists and hope 2013 could bring ‘license for all’ OXNARD — Francisco Romero doesn’t like police checkpoints. He believes that towing companies and municipalities unfairly profit from undocumented immigrants caught there driving without a license. So Romero would likes to hit them [...]
