By Matt Stieglitz A few weeks ago, the Obama administration outlined its “steps” for improving Latino education, including: $4 billion school improvement grants; a request for additional Head Start and Early Head Start funding; and a program to train more Latino teachers. Most importantly, “mechanisms” are being put in place to significantly boost the college [...]

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Today Arizona’s state senate appropriations committee passed a bill to change birthright citizenship within the state and will set up a Supreme Court case on the matter. This birthright bill will now proceed to the full Arizona state senate for a debate. VotoLatino has a blog post up describing how this Arizona birthright bill challenges [...]

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The following is a blog post by Pablo Manriquez in response to yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling. This is from the AP: For Justice Sotomayor, deciding to make suspects speak to have the right to remain silent was a step too far. Sotomayor, the court’s newest member, wrote a strongly worded dissent for the court’s liberals, [...]

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I was able to catch most of the State of the Union last night, and before the President even entered the gallery, I was struck by a few things. One being Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez in her “Nancy Reagan red” suit yet again. She loves red suits, and she’s always in an aisle seat for the [...]

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Well, it has been about a week since the United State Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporate entities have “personhood” in that they can utilize the first amendment to spend in campaigns. Essentially, the floodgates have been opened, and both corporations and unions will get to drown out the smaller individual [...]

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It has been a busy week, but here are some items that I have been following in the past few days. This piece from the Huffington Post caught my attention about Villar (as many like to call him) or Mayor V. It speculates that Villar may be holding out to run for the Senate in [...]

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Seneca has been on hiatus, but he’s back with some great observations about Latinos in the Obama administration and in the federal government in general: Obama has already demonstrated that he is the first US President to appoint more Latinos in his administration than any other President before him. His crowning achievement was to get Sonia [...]

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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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