I have been told by some that many times Latinos aspire to the lowest common denominator, and when one examines statistics about our educational attainment, wealth building, teen pregnancy and incarceration rates, one might be led to believe that assertion on its face without considering other factors. However, the Latino education crisis is  certainly a [...]

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Now that Congressman Gutierrez has introduced the comprehensive immigration reform bill in the House, eyes will turn to the Senate as Senators Schumer and Graham craft their bill, which is rumored to be more enforcement oriented than the Gutierrez legislation. I think that if an immigration bill doesn’t move toward passage by Memorial Day that [...]

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Per Seneca’s earlier observation about Latino appointments, President Obama is on track to appoint more Latinos to top posts within the administration than did his predecessors, including Presidents Clinton and GWB. The AP has a pretty good article here. I would like to note this particular part: “In some ways, Obama is simply following his [...]

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The latest blog post about Loretta Sanchez and her lobbyist friend(s) has inspired a bunch of other Loretta related blog posts, including the uncovering of more pictures of Congresswoman Sanchez and John Saylor. People are tiring of Sanchez’s antics, especially in light of the dire situation in her district and the general sentiment that she [...]

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MoveOn.org’s “Lieberman Socks” video has been making the rounds, and I think that it is a pretty good summation of the Senator’s attitudes and ability to obstruct the kind of health care reform that so many want here in the US. Unfortunately, the private insurance market has not been able to produce plans or the [...]

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Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois) will introduce the comprehensive immigration reform bill tomorrow in the House. He has a blog up on the Huffington Post about it now that you can read. The bill’s acronym is CIR ASAP for Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009. I will have more details on [...]

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Congresswoman Sanchez’s lobbyist connections have been explored on this blog before. As the clock ticks toward the midterm elections next year, new sources and allegations about what Rep. Loretta Sanchez has been doing with her lobbyist friends have been brought to my attention. Some may wonder why I continue to entertain the information from my [...]

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The following is another guest blog by David Molina detailing some of the Latino political participation in Oregon. Yesterday evening, over a dozen Chicana/os and Latina/os, from locally elected to state appointed, from American educated to small business owners, from military veterans to health care workers, and from engineers to educators, gathered around to have [...]

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