Top Stories + California Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 19, 2009
After a 3 year trial of producing regionalized news for several top 10 Hispanic market stations via the Telemundo Production Center in Dallas, the network is reverting to producing local news. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Phoenix and San Jose will once again have locally produced news.
November 18, 2009
California’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman told a group of supporters Tuesday that she is making an unprecedented effort to attract Latinos to the Republican party – in South El Monte
November 13, 2009
Few Latinos in leadership positions at California nonprofits – hold only 6% of executive director positions and 9% of board seats but are 36% of the state’s population
October 26, 2009
Sacramento Police Chief Rick Braziel has joined other chiefs in the nation in calling for an immigration overhaul that considers legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants.
September 21, 2009
Diabetes is killing Latinos in Ventura County, CA at twice the rate it is claiming lives in other racial and ethnic groups. – Nearly 6% of Latinos who died in Ventura County in 2005 and 2006 were killed by diabetes
August 24, 2009
Unemployment in California hits post-World War II high – In July, Latino unemployment rate hit 12.7%, dwarfing the white jobless rate of 9.5%
Study: Immigration judge as stressed out as emergency room doctors, prison wardens
August 16, 2009
In Los Angeles, Songs Without Borders – In clubs, bars, swap meets and concert halls, from car radios and ringing cellphones, you will hear corridos, old-time folk ballads in the banda and norteño styles
August 4, 2009
Recession leads to drop in birthrates in California – 3.2% decline in births to Hispanic mothers from 2007 to 2008 — the largest one-year decline in at least two decades – “That seems to be because a lot of working-age and childbearing-age Hispanics are moving out of state to take jobs elsewhere, coupled with the fact that the border crossings” into the U.S. from Mexico “have declined.”
August 3, 2009
Immigrants who flocked to the once-burgeoning Inland Empire are hard-hit in economic downturn
July 20, 2009
Latino-owned Businesses: Potential Boon For Economy – Study commissioned by newly-formed Latino Business Chamber shows Latino businesses are positioned to grow – Strengthening Latino Businesses in Greater Los Angeles
July 13, 2009
Payday lenders are nearly eight times more concentrated in California’s Black and Latino neighborhoods as compared to white neighborhoods, draining these communities of $247 million in payday loan fees.
July 9, 2009
Shortage of Hispanic doctors in California exacerbates health issues
June 25, 2009
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez not running for governor of California
Veteran Latino-rights advocate charged with voter fraud – Nativo V. Lopez
June 23, 2009
Top Obama Administration Officials to Engage Latino Leaders on Critical Policy Issues in Los Angeles This Week – NALEO Conference June 25-27
June 21, 2009
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s future, once bright, looks dimmer now
June 15, 2009
Computer ‘raid’ in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated – No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles. For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month
June 2, 2009
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa dating another newscaster former San Antonio broadcaster Lu Parker now with KTLA Channel 5
Nearly 1 million Californians seek medical care in Mexico annually – Health services sought equally by Mexican, non-Mexican residents
May 30, 2009
A title bout between two Eastsides in Los Angeles – The protest is no mere issue of semantics. It’s a threat to their community’s identity, the Eastsiders said. They argue that the term Eastside is synonymous, in California and beyond, with the Chicano movement; home to working-class immigrants and the city’s first Latino mayor in more than a century
May 14, 2009
Nearly one in six residents, or 46.9 million people, are Hispanic – The most Latino county in the nation was Los Angeles, with 4.7 million people
May 11, 2009
Naturalized citizens are poised to reshape California’s political landscape – The increase in naturalized Asian and Latino citizens — 300,000 people took the oath of allegiance in 2008 — could alter the state’s policy priorities for years to come
April 27, 2009
Forced to slash their budgets, some California counties are eliminating nonemergency health services for illegal immigrants — a move that officials acknowledge could backfire by shifting the financial burden to emergency rooms.
March 20, 2009
Mendez v. Westminster Case at Center of New Curriculum Children across California could soon learn about desegregation, migration, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and more
March 11, 2009
A California company wants its customers to feel as comfortable using self-serve money transfer machines as they do using ATMs. San Bruno, Calif.-based Nexxo Financial Corp.’s technology allows immigrants to send money home via automated teller-type machines to bank branches and pickup centers in Latin America.
March 4, 2009
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wins second term as L.A. mayor – first Hispanic mayor in more than a century
December 19, 2008
Rep. Hilda L. Solis (D-El Monte), a Congressional Hispanic Caucus leader considered to be one of the most reliably pro-union voices in the House, is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the Labor Department, a Democratic official said Thursday.
December 9, 2008
UC Santa Cruz senior Danielle Soto follows family footsteps in politics – The 22-year-old environmental studies major will be sworn into the Pomona City Council on Dec. 13, just two days after her last final. – granddaughter of the late Philip Soto one of the first two Latinos elected to the California Assembly in 1962
East L.A., Latino heartland, revives its dream of cityhood – More than 30 years after the last attempt, the chances of success seem higher.
December 2, 2008
Antonio Villaraigosa says he won’t join Obama administration The mayor says he plans to stay in Los Angeles and focus on his reelection campaign and the city’s pressing issues.
November 21, 2008
The city of Los Angeles has tentatively agreed to pay nearly 13 million U.S. dollars to immigration protesters and bystanders injured by police officers during a melee last year, it was reported on Thursday.
November 19, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama has named Cruz Reynoso, a former California Supreme Court justice, to one of his teams. Reynoso, a UC Davis law professor and internationally recognized civil rights leader, has been appointed to Obama’s Justice and Civil Rights Agency Review
Participará Mario Molina en el equipo de transición de Obama – El mexicano premio Nobel de Química participará como co-director del equipo de transición del gobierno del reciente presidente electo de EU.
Joining President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team – Mario Molina, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSD, will help spearhead a group looking at the nation’s science and technology policies. Molina won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research examining the threat posed by chlorofluorocarbon gases, or CFCs, to the Earth’s ozone layer.
October 22, 2008
US Rep. Joe Baca of California makes Esquire Magazine’s “10 Worst Members of Congress” for being “corrupt and venal” – (click through slide show to #8 of 11 – ouch!)
October 15, 2008
A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that the city’s plan to issue municipal identification cards to residents regardless of immigration status does not violate state and federal law.
September 30, 2008
Border visits no longer will be day at beach – The federal government’s effort to slam the door on illegal immigration, drug smuggling and the threat of terrorism means a new secondary fence will be built in the park, creating a 90-foot-wide no-man’s land of patrol roads and security lights that extends to the sea. – Southern California
September 29, 2008
U.S. immigration authorities said Monday they arrested more than 1,150 people in California in a three-week sweep, the state’s largest of its type since since 2003.
September 25, 2008
During the evening of Wednesday, September 24th, Dionicio Morales, 89, died at Beverly Hospital in Montebello, CA. – Founded Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF) that is one of the largest Mexican-American community service organizations with an annual budget of ~$60 million
September 18, 2008
A state appellate court ruled on Monday that a state law granting subsidized in-state tuition rates to undocumented California college students conflicts with federal law.
September 17, 2008
15 LAPD officers face discipline in May Day melee – Police Chief William J. Bratton calls for four of the officers to be fired in connection with the 2007 debacle
Peter Camejo, a Green Party leader who was a third-party candidate in three California gubernatorial elections before becoming Ralph Nader’s running mate in the 2004 presidential race, has died. He was 68.
September 11, 2008
San Francisco Latinos Pick Up Pieces After Foreclosure
September 10, 2008
The Solano County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $50,000 reward this morning for information on the fatal shooting of Fairfield Councilman Matt Garcia – California – (bring the total to $100k that might go to $150k)
September 9, 2008
Southern California’s taco truck war continued to sizzle as county officials asked a judge to reinstate a law he threw out last month that had forced truck operators to move every hour or face the threat of jail.
August 14, 2008
The first sisters in Congress, Loretta and Linda Sanchez of California, say they had to fend off propositions and patronizing from men to get there and to stay. Their joint memoir, “Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress,” being published Sept. 2, traces their paths to Washington, where they found themselves a minority of a minority — Latina women in an institution still dominated by white men.
August 11, 2008
McCain campaign steps up efforts to win over California’s Latinos
August 1, 2008
Dodgers get Manny Ramirez from Red Sox
July 17, 2008
24% of California high school students drop out – 30.3% of Hispanics!!!
June 26, 2008
LAPD won’t ask about immigration status – lawsuit thrown out
June 24, 2008
Jaime Jarrin links Dodgers to Spanish-speaking audience – Jarrin has gone from early slights to a 50-year broadcasting career that includes not only baseball but also covering the pope, White House visits and the slaying of Ruben Salazar.
June 23, 2008
Latino children are behind in preschool enrollment – California
June 12, 2008
Lawsuit Thrown Out Over Underrepresented Latino Jurors – San Diego
June 11, 2008
How Desperate Homeowners Got Caught Up in an Alleged Scam – California
May 27, 2008
South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards – Once predominantly African American, the area has seen an influx of Latino immigrants, along with their roosters, chickens and other barnyard beasts not typically part of the urban scene.
Border schools get tough on Mexican students – In Calexico, Calif., schools crack down on students who live across the border.
May 13, 2008
California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez leaves the speaker’s post
May 8, 2008
DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale – Sacramento’s Steven Ybarra Wants $20 Million For His Vote
May 5, 2008
Politics and tacos don’t mix on L.A. streets
April 29, 2008
Latino voting potential is at record level in California
April 28, 2008
Diabetes Before Motherhood More Than Doubled In Six Years, Study Finds (52% of the participants were Latinas)
April 16, 2008
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, on April 4th, told a largely African-American audience in Compton that when Latino gangs are at war with black gangs over drugs and turf they are sometimes satisfied to kill any young black living in their rival’s territory in order to flex their criminal muscle.
April 14, 2008
Are Illegal Immigrants Entitled to Organ Transplants in the U.S.?
An unusual blend of cultures: Mexican and black – Costa Chicans in Los Angeles – Immigrants from Costa Chica share an ancient ethnic heritage and culture that few outsiders know about.
April 12, 2008
Christina Silva Sues Miss California USA Pageant, Claiming Racism
April 10, 2008
San Francisco Welcomes Illegal Immigrants With New Ad Campaign
April 7, 2008
Study: California falls short on number of Latino, African-American doctors
For Lorena Ochoa, a Title, a Soak and a Serenade – a grandstand full of singers serenaded her in Spanish
April 2, 2008
Los Angeles clinic offers care for Mayas – Clinica Romero reaches a community that has generally been reluctant to seek Western treatment.
March 28, 2008
Los Angeles Votes Against Anti Immigrant Legislation
March 26, 2008
Building Racism – Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site – San Francisco
March 24, 2008
Latino homebuyers face uphill battle in effort to keep homes
Provost-pilot has high hopes for National Hispanic University
March 10, 2008
Activists take over L.A. streets celebrating 1968 ‘blowouts’ – Thousands re-enact the East Los Angeles high school boycotts by marching from Lincoln H.S. to Hazard Park. – Los Angeles
February 27, 2008
State’s economy needs more college-educated Latinos – California
February 26, 2008
Immigrants, crime premise is debunked – (local incarceration rates differ from federal)
February 20, 2008
Latino officers are now LAPD’s majority
February 18, 2008
Traditional music of Mexico casts spell on new generation
Police Investigating Theft Of $100,000 From Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce – San Diego -(Is organization is insolvent and beset by management problems?)
February 14, 2008
University of California-Berkeley study shows strong support for cross-border health insurance between the U.S. and Mexico
February 6, 2008
Hispanics Boost Clinton in California
February 1, 2008
Dems battling for Latino voters in state – California
January 29, 2008
ICE to illegal immigrants: ‘We are coming after you’ – Los Angeles (tough headline – tough message)
Latinos courted as wild card among shifting evangelical voters – For Democratic, GOP candidates, California pastor is vital link to nearly 18,000 congregations – Rev. Samuel Rodriguez
January 14, 2008
California and national nursing shortages could be addressed by hiring from Mexico, but English proficiency is one of many hurdles potential applicants face
Immigration Crackdown Hits Fence Builder
January 11, 2008
Mexican education comes to U.S. – Adult immigrants can complete their basic education in Spanish at one of 13 centers across L.A. County.
January 7, 2008
The Latino effect: Will it be felt in 2008 race? – California politics
January 3, 2008
Photos used to expel Mexicans from U.S. schools
Keeping up with day laborers not easy – Police officer in Orange devotes time to enforcing new rules that crack down on problems associated with day workers. – Orange, California
January 2, 2008
Activist fails to rally blacks on illegal-immigration issue – Los Angeles
December 28, 2007
Los Angeles Combating Gangs Gone International
December 3, 2007
A lawman proud of his ‘illegal’ roots – US Marshal Tony Amador – Sacramento
Spanish-language KDTV celebrates top rating for 6 p.m. newscast – San Francisco
November 26, 2007
Villaraigosa faces steep climb to California’s top job – After missteps, he must not only polish his image, but also fight off doubts about allegiance should run for reelection in 2009. – Los Angeles
November 25, 2007
Hate Crimes Against Latinos Have Jumped in San Diego
The black-Latino blame game – Los Angeles
November 19, 2007
Immigration debate gnaws at meaning of citizenship – In California, and elsewhere in the United States, activists are debating not only immigration – but who should get to be a citizen.
November 13, 2007
New San Francisco ID cards for residents – whether in the country legally or not
Biding their tongues – Cuban-born Maria Carreira is a professor at Cal State Long Beach. She has a finely honed sense of Spanish-English etiquette that leads her to use Spanish sparingly in public, unless she is approached in that language.
November 4, 2007
Pepe Mantilla is Lakers’ Spanish voice of authority – He’s called games for 15 seasons and says the team’s popularity continues to grow in Spanish-speaking community.
Census figures show 70 percent of California’s Mexican population are U.S. citizens
October 29, 2007
Disturbing Reports That San Diego Sheriff is Using the Fire to Enforce Immigration Lawst
October 28, 2007
Folic acid use declining among Latinas
October 25, 2007
A third of state’s avocado crop lost to fire, more threatened – California
Mark Sanchez: The Mexican Mouthpiece of the University of Southern California
October 20, 2007
University of California, Berkeley releases report debunking myths about immigration, health
San Diego County remittances to Mexico hit $1.1 billion
October 18, 2007
Sacramento Bee editor resigns in dispute over paper’s direction – Rick Rodriguez
October 17, 2007
East L.A. is ready, financially, for independence
October 16, 2007
Members of Latino gang charged with race-motivated crimes – Los Angeles
California law bars landlords from asking about immigration status
October 15, 2007
Immigrant gardeners provide seed money for college scholarships – Bay Area Gardeners Foundation
Cockfighting bust nets more than 5,000 birds, 50 arrests – San Diego
October 14, 2007
Los Angeles police takes blame for violent May Day protest
October 8, 2007
Cross-border business boom – More companies based in Mexico are opening shops in the United States
October 3, 2007
ICE Makes Major Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants – More Than 1,300 Illegal Immigrants Arrested, Most with Criminal Records – Southern California
October 2, 2007
Spanish-language newscaster involved with LA mayor leaves Telemundo
October 1, 2007
National Latino Congreso Convenes Friday (I will there for part of it)
September 30, 2007
Contractor sued over alleged harassment of Hispanic workers – California
September 26, 2007
Immigrant cost study officially received by county board – San Diego – $101.5 million in 2006-07 fiscal year
September 25, 2007
Telemundo reassigns Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s girlfriend, Mirthala Salinas, to Riverside
September 19, 2007
California church to be billed for illegal immigration rally
September 18, 2007
In the Southwest, fixing the fence never ends
La Cuna a place of safety and comfort for Latino babies – San Diego foster care
September 16, 2007
Spanish bilingual schools no longer just for remedial education – San Francisco
September 10, 2007
Supervisor Ammiano drafting legislation for ID card for illegals – San Francisco
September 9, 2007
The Cultural War on Diabetes – There’s an epidemic underway in this country, and minority communities are being hit hard. How two Los Angeles doctors are finding new ways to help.
Report estimates San Diego county’s illegal immigrant cost at $256 million in 2006 (the study “must be viewed with a certain amount of caution” because its estimates were based on anecdotal evidence.)
September 7, 2007
Lawsuit grows against LAPD over immigration march melee
August 29, 2007
David Garcia, 63; pioneering environmental reporter known as ‘Earthman’
August 23, 2007
San Diego Padres — Adrian Gonzalez’s father battling his ex-partner for debt, Potros
August 21, 2007
Nowadays, Juanes loves L.A.
August 9, 2007
Diabetes in Los Angeles continues to climb – Blacks, Latinos are especially hard hit
August 2, 2007
Merced to use foto-novelas to lure Latino men to college
July 30, 2007
Latino baby boom changing demographics in California
July 23, 2007
Nearly two thousand show for citizenship workshop – Santa Ana, California
July 15, 2007
Border bullies of San Diego / Minutemen, other groups spread anti-immigrant invective
July 10, 2007
Hispanics expected to be California’s majority by 2042
July 9, 2007
Los Angeles mayor’s infidelity costs him Latina support
Hispanic groups push Santa Ana to adopt sanctuary designation – California
July 2, 2007
Latino politicians are experiencing growing pains – California
June 24, 2007
Escondido had 25 percent of county’s illegal immigrant arrests in May – California
June 17, 2007
Latinos reject governor’s English-immersion advice
June 14, 2007
Schwarzenegger: Avoid Spanish-language media to learn English
June 13, 2007
Candidates Sound Off on Immigration in California
May 22, 2007
Mexican Workers Provide a Resort Island’s “Backbone’ – On Santa Catalina Island off Southern California, immigrants from Mexico make up much of the labor force.
May 16, 2007
Civil activists join Latino wage suit – California
Immigration activist gets police security tab, but nobody pays
May 14, 2007
LAPD Opens Dangerous Front in Immigrant Movement
May 13, 2007
Tainted Mexican treats turn up in state, despite promises by manufacturers. – California
May 9, 2007
Week after violent clash, LA immigrants announce June rally
May 8, 2007
UC Riverside Chancellor France A. Córdova Named Purdue University President
May 7, 2007
Dozens of LAPD Officers Benched for Their Role in May Day Melee
May 3, 2007
Los Angeles chief blasts police tactics at protest
April 26, 2007
Oakland to Become Sanctuary for Illegal Immigrants
April 23, 2007
Newsom pledges to make San Francisco a sanctuary for illegal immigrants
April 19, 2007
Vida en el Valle nations best Latino paper – Fresno
April 13, 2007
Foreclosure Wave Said to Hit Latinos Hard
April 9, 2007
Santa Ana chamber pushing residents to learn English – California
April 8, 2007
Thousands of Los Angeles marchers demand immigration rights
April 3, 2007
Riverside veteran finds passion for art after pain of war – Simon Gonzalez
Founder of Ruiz Foods Inc. dies – Louis Flores Ruiz
March 30, 2007
Tomorrow, March 31, is Cesar Chavez Day. Why does California celebrate it? What is Chavez’s legacy?
After several years doing analysis on the Angels’ Spanish-language radio station, Jose Mota will now call games in English.
March 26, 2007
Dueling LA immigration rallies mark anniversary of massive march
March 22, 2007
A culture of young motherhood: Teen pregnancy remains an issue in Santa Cruz County – California (part 1 of 2)
March 21, 2007
Report Examines Arrests of Blacks and Latinos in San Jose – California
Latino leaders silence is killing blacks – L.A. is headed for a racial meltdown unless the two groups form a coalition.
March 19, 2007
Latina author shares trailblazing tales – Sylvia Mendoza’s “The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength and Success.”
March 15, 2007
New Study by UCLA Researcher Examines Needs of English Learners in California Schools
March 14, 2007
Los Angeles Landlords Brag About Evicting Latino Families
March 12, 2007
Latino film short basks in star power at the San Diego Latino Film Festival
March 2, 2007
Few Primary Care Practitioners Offer HIV Tests to Hispanic Patients in Los Angeles, New UCLA AIDS Institute Study Finds
February 23, 2007
Hispanic, black kids are jailed more often – Santa Clara County, California
February 22, 2007
Sacramento man first Latino recognized for health philanthropy – Mario Gutierrez
February 12, 2007
A town that wants illegal immigrants – Lindsay, California
Hospital Allegedly Dumps Homeless (Hispanic) Paraplegic – Los Angeles
February 8, 2007
Latinos’ politics topic of research – Prof. Lisa Garcia Bedolla debunks stereotypes of activists
February 5, 2007
Hispanic girls say they were beaten by black group – Inglewood, California
February 2, 2007
2nd Migrant March will get personal – Migrant March II – San Diego to Brownsville and back
January 25, 2007
Children of illegal immigrants are caught in a web of conflicting public policies – California
January 22, 2007
Taking the reins in immigration debate – Zoe Lofgren
January 21, 2007
The low-income illegal-immigrant parents of an estimated 36,000 children in California would lose cash assistance on July 1 if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget is approved
January 17, 2007
Latino gang in Harbor Gateway agrees to truce – Los Angeles
Racial Hate Feeds a Gang War’s Senseless Killing – Los Angeles
January 2, 2007
Auxiliary Bishop Soto tackles taboo topics – California
December 27, 2006
Medi-Cal pays for 100,000 births yearly to undocumented immigrants
December 20, 2006
Diocese of Monterey names first Mexican-American as bishop
