This past week while in Mexico City Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was scheduled to announce the new US Ambassador to Mexico. Several names had been tossed around in the last few months: Federico Peña (former Clinton Cabinet member), Henry Cisneros (former Clinton HUD Secretary), Frank Herrera (popular San Antonio attorney), Maria Echeveste (former Clinton [...]

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Carrie Lopez, the Director of California’s Department of Consumer Affairs, turned in her resignation letter to Governor Schwarzenegger yesterday. Her expenses had been under investigation after The LA Times revealed that she charged the state for transportation to a Justin Timberlake concert at the Staples Center back in 2007. The tickets for Lopez and her [...]

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Yesterday, the DREAM Act was reintroduced in both the Senate and the House. In the spirit of bipartisanship and showing a commitment to youth seeking to advance themselves here in the US, Senators Lugar (R-IN) and Durbin (D-IL) introduced the bill in the upper house, while Reps. Berman (D-CA) and L. Diaz Balart (R-FL) introduced [...]

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Amid all of the doom and gloom about the economy and the drug war in Mexico, there’s a glimmer of positivity in the Latino political world this week, thanks to the efforts of Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. The Department of Labor is hiring 150 more investigators to more effectively enforce wage and child labor [...]

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Seneca and I have been working on a few new blog posts, which will be posted soon. In the meantime, I thought I would share with you some things that I have been reading, writing about, and pondering for the week ahead. Feel free to share your thoughts as well. “Are the immigration raids ‘un-American‘?” [...]

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On Tuesday, I mentioned that Esteban Nuñez, son of former CA Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, would have a preliminary hearing in his murder trial. That hearing has been rescheduled to April 1 because defense attorneys need more time to review evidence submitted by the DA’s office. Fabian Nuñez offered no comment. Photo Credit: AP photo [...]

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During the Nixon Administration, the GOP began to assimilate the White South and all its cultural baggage: racial resentment of the African-American progress and the betraying Democratic Party. Meanwhile, Latinos still in overwhelming numbers remained Democrats. It was in the early 80’s with Ronald Reagan and the rise of the religious Evangelical Right that many [...]

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Here are some stories we have been following the past few days: Tomorrow former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez’s son, Esteban, is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing. He’s being charged with murder. Remember that Mayor Villaraigosa said that Esteban is a “good boy.” One of Congressman Joe Baca’s former aides, Sam Clauder, has been [...]

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