For the past few days, in addition to the tropical produce name calling, Marco Rubio, the GOP candidate for the Senate in Florida, has been getting some heat for his spending ways. Basically, he made some charges to his state GOP American Express card for $133 hair cuts (his hair cut doesn’t look that complicated), [...]

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Ad man Donny Deutsch has been making the news rounds because of his use of the term “coconut” (brown on the outside, white on the inside) to refer to Cuban-American Senatorial Candidate Marco Rubio on an appearance on the The Joy Behar Show. When I heard about this yesterday, I thought to myself that this [...]

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Former California Assembly Speaker and current partner in Mercury Public Affairs, Fabian Nuñez has pulled papers to run for state treasurer in 2014. He also filed paperwork to run for the State Senate for this year, but everyone pretty much attributed that move as a means for him to park his campaign cash. Nuñez has [...]

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Today the Los Angeles Times had an article about how the soda tax debate has shifted to the states since there has been such opposition at the national level by the soft drink companies and their lobbyists. When I spoke with Brent Wilkes, the executive director of LULAC, he mentioned that one of the reasons [...]

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The following is another guest blog by David Molina, who serves on the Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs: On January 28, 2010, huddled inside a Mexican grocery store & panaderia in Gresham, Oregon, Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian and I hosted a Labor & Employment Forum to educate Oregonian workers of their rights as workers, the [...]

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As was mentioned last month, Mayor Villaraigosa had a cameo appearance on the soap opera All My Children. Since I don’t watch television, I had to catch it online. This morning the local NPR station in LA was saying that Villaraigosa and Councilman Garcetti appeared on the soap because it had recently moved to Los [...]

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Gustavo Arellano of the OC Weekly has a pretty good blog post up about the Orange County Hispanic Bar Association and its decision to have an anniversary dinner at the Disney Grand Californian Hotel, which is the site of a current dispute over health benefits for its workers. Arellano asks, “Why is the OC Hispanic [...]

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On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to speak with Brent Wilkes, the Executive Director of LULAC about his organization’s relationship with the some of the junk food selling sponsors and his views about the junk food tax. I’m thankful that he availed himself to speak with me because I know that the previous post has [...]

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