Once upon a time, I used to watch CNN regularly. I watched so much CNN that I would even fall asleep with it on, but then I become more of a news hound with the internet, reading multiple dailies, blogs, and of course trusty old NPR or local non-profit radio stations. One reason I don’t [...]

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The following is another guest blog post by Sorjuana. Recently, I have blogged about Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s failure to co-sponsor the DREAM Act, despite it being supported by both Republicans and Democrats and by the City Council of Santa Ana (symbolically). Well, now we are experiencing something similar with Rep. Joe Baca, who also will [...]

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This is a guest blog post by Paul Garza, Jr., a consultant working in high school education reform. Before the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on March 10 of this year, President Obama in an historic first announced a major policy initiative before a Latino organization. That announcement: education. Clearly the nation’s dropout epidemic was [...]

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The City of Santa Ana, one of the most Latino cities in the US, has put the weight of its city council behind the DREAM Act. This week Santa Ana’s city council voted 5-0 to back this symbolic resolution to support the bill in Congress that would provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented students. [...]

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One issue I have become increasingly concerned about is immigrant detention. Last year I became more aware of the issue having read Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m dying detailing the horrific treatment of her Haitian uncle in an immigrant detention facility in Miami. Then I watched the film, The Visitor, which addressed immigrant detention in NYC. [...]

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I am a little late to the party on Mayor Villar’s reaction to the Michael Jackson memorial expenses. While I needed a breather on all the MJ coverage, I decided to hold off a bit, but since TMZ put up a new clip where they ask if the donors for the memorial service will get [...]

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I’m sick of hearing about the “wise Latina” comment, but I feel compelled to say something about it as a Latina. Many ethnic minorities who lack representation or parity in certain professions have heard “ethnic pep speeches.” I have heard my fair share from more accomplished Latinos in politics, education, and even the law. Because [...]

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Today was the start of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination hearings. I was only able to catch the opening session on the radio this morning, but I was struck my how the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary committee focused in on remarks made in speeches to law students, while seemingly omitting Sotomayor’s moderate [...]

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