This weekend Justice Sotomayor  tossed out the first pitch in a game against the Boston Red Socks at Yankee Stadium to help commemorate her hometown ball club’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. I don’t think that the Yankees could have picked a more appropriate candidate for this task, as Sotomayor is definitely a baseball fan. You [...]

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Yesterday, I read this piece by Ruben Navarrette titled Obama drops ball on immigration. I scratched my head and then thought to myself, “I don’t think President Obama ever really picked up the ball on immigration since he has occupied the White House.” We have seen evidence of this by his

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I have noticed an upswing in traffic with people searching for information about Caroline Valdez, the former aide to Representative Loretta Sanchez, who pleaded guilty to theft back in May. Well, the update is that Ms. Valdez, a 28 year old engaged mother and Arizona State dropout, has been sentenced today to three years probation [...]

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Last week, LatinoPoliticsBlog was in Washington, D.C., and while there, I heard an astute political observer say, “I sense that there isn’t a filter for what comes out of Loretta’s mouth.” Well, sure enough, that often seems to be the case, but I haven’t seen a blooper like the quote in Sunday’s New York Times [...]

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Back when Esteban Nuñez, the son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez,  was arrested late last year for the murder of Luis Dos Santos, many blog commenters and other observers of the case thought that Nuñez’s friends would start to turn on him. Remember that four young men were charged in this case. Well, it looks [...]

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Back in the end of July, I had a blog post about CNN, Lou Dobbs and the Latino in America series to be featured on that network. I thought that it was ironic for CNN to be pushing a series about Latinos, while continuing to give Lou Dobbs airtime. Lou Dobbs has crossed the line [...]

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Yesterday I was alerted to this article in the LA Times highlighting Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez’s traveling expenses. I do believe that Congress needs to reign in the overseas travel costs, especially in these tough times and start utilizing technology more to learn about issues like global warming, transportation, and anti-terrorism strategies. Does it take a [...]

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Back in May, I was up in Sacramento with an advocacy group that I participate with to address Assembly Bill 98, which would extend maternity benefits to private insurers. In many private insurance plans that women purchase on their own in the open market, basic maternity services are excluded or extremely expensive. One of the [...]

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