Essentials + 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
November 5, 2009
A top Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) official confirmed that officers were conducting a training exercise at CSUN that involved members of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) earlier this semester. – Members said they were targeted and profiled by LAPD officers during their first meeting on Sept. 2. & that they were followed, harassed and intimidated by “undercover police officers” during a ceremony to welcome first-time freshmen to their organization.
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.
October 12, 2009
Park Ranger Mauricio Escobar Uses Life Story To Reach Out To Latinos – – Yosemite National Park sits on the edge of California’s rural San Joaquin Valley, a farming region that’s nearly 50% Latino. Yet few of the region’s Latino residents ever visit the park.
Jose Hernandez gets hero’s welcome in Stockton
September 29, 2009
Amid lagging scores of Latino students, San Jose High Academy models success
September 28, 2009
California Senator Cedillo Tells the Truth About Immigration Enforcement in the Obama Era
September 22, 2009
Race Is a $50 Billion Reality for the U.S. Health System – Traveling Exhibit Asks Los Angeles to Explore Why at California Science Center
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 25, 2009
A former gang member and anti-gang crusader in Los Angeles faces serious charges, including conspiracy to commit murder – Alex Sanchez – Homies Unidos
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
Woman facing deportation remains at Simi church – 2 years later still there – California
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
Undocumented people live in a shadowy world of high fear and stress — fear of deportation and stress brought on lack of economic, linguistic and educational resources. – study from UCLA
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 11, 2009
Puerto Rican southpaw Jonathan Sanchez hurls no-hitter for San Francisco Giants
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
Quartet of Latina professors at Cal State San Bernardino file grievance – Maria Balderrama, Nena Torrez, Barbara Flores & Lynne Diaz-Rico
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 20, 2009
With California slipping into a financial sinkhole, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to save more than $180 million by cutting short the sentences of thousands of immigrants in the state’s prisons and turning them over to federal authorities for deportation.
June 19, 2009
Rodri Rodriguez Bringing the Romance and Spectacle Back Again with 20th Mariachi USA Festival
June 17, 2009
Street vendor Amado Campos, 44, of Los Angeles, is his own boss, but he works long hours, seven days a week. His costs are up but sales are down as his customers cut back in a poor economy. And he needs a new cart.
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
June 1, 2009
This looks awesome :: Sunday, June 7, 8:30 pm in Los Angeles, Gregorio Luke at the Ford, Life Size Murals will be at the Ford Amphitheatre’s outdoor stage featuring Diego Rivera (watch him talk a little about it)
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 28, 2009
Judy Chu’s win over Gil Cedillo in Los Angeles a symbol of Latino confidence – Hilda Solis’ congressional seat
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.
A Green Latino Movement in South Los Angeles – Mujeres de la Tierra
March 21, 2009
The Los Angeles Times Home section talked with four household employees — a nanny, a housekeeper, a gardener and a day laborer — to see how the recession was affecting their work and their lives. Here are their stories. Because of embarrassment or immigration status, all declined to provide their full names.
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 12, 2008
Esteban Núñez, son of former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, is arraigned on murder charges in Superior Court in San Diego, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008. Núñez and three of his friends and are accused of stabbing to death a 22-year-old student and injuring three other men on the San Diego State University campus.
December 10, 2008
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it will give nearly $70 million in grants to aid Hispanic education efforts concentrating in New York City, New Mexico and California.
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 8, 2008
El adiós ¿definitivo? de RBD – El sexteto de pop dio su último concierto en Estados Unidos el viernes en el Gibson
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 25, 2008
Congresswoman Expecting – Lakewood Democrat Linda Sanchez announces she is expecting a child with boyfriend
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
Jorge Mettey, former news director and vice president of news at Univision KMEX-TV 34 in Los Angeles, filed a lawsuit Monday against his former employer, claiming he was wrongfully terminated after allegedly being pressured to cover news sponsored by advertisers.
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.
November 11, 2008
Los Angeles’ Barrios Vote Big For Obama For Latinos in LA, the Bradley effect works in reverse, as always.
November 3, 2008
Another Open Letter to the L.A. Times – Insulting the spirit of Ruben Salazar, Frank Del Olmo, and the Latino community by letting Augustin Gurza go
October 27, 2008
Making their dreams pan out – In restaurants around L.A., immigrants from Latin America who began as dishwashers learned the skills to become top chefs.
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 23, 2008
Figures newly released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that nearly two-thirds of all children living in the San Joaquin Valley are Hispanic.
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 15, 2008
Latinos now outnumber blacks 2 to 1 in South Los Angeles
Former state Assemblyman Robert Pacheco has been named co-chairman of California Latinos for McCain.
September 12, 2008
CHULA VISTA: Police say vandals caused more than $4,000 damage to a pediatric office Wednesday night when they stole petty cash and scrawled Nazi swastikas and anti-Mexican graffiti on the walls. – California
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 28, 2008
A Latino Gadfly Who Wins By Losing – Steven Ybarra is hard to miss. A large man with a shock of white hair, he commands attention like a Falstaff on center stage, but his theatrics and his thunderous voice apparently drive some Democratic Party leaders nuts.
August 26, 2008
Ray Chavez, an Oakland Tribune photographer and this year’s recipient of the NAHJ’s Photographer of the Year award, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Oakland on Friday.
August 19, 2008
Even as the demand for health care continues to increase, the number of qualified Hispanic nurses lags behind, according to a recent study of the nursing industry in the Los Angeles area.
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 12, 2008
The Los Angeles SuperClasico – A History Three years of Galaxy-Chivas battles, and the only true intra-city derby in MLS is finally living up to its SuperClasico name.
Targeted by drug cartels, Mexican politician quickly relocates – Mexican Congressman David Figueroa quickly confirmed last week as the country’s new consul general in San Jose, California
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 27, 2008
Latino-vs.-black violence drives hate crimes in L.A. County to 5-year high
July 24, 2008
The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday called on Mayor Gavin Newsom to allow the federal agency full access to information about local inmates, saying the city should rescind its policy that prohibits ICE agents from reviewing jail logs and records.
July 23, 2008
Thanks to Frida Kahlo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Finally Draws Latino Crowd
July 22, 2008
Worse may come for epic lines at Tijuana crossing
July 21, 2008
Los Angeles Immigration Court caseload soars – And wait times are growing because the number of judges has not kept pace.
July 17, 2008
24% of California high school students drop out – 30.3% of Hispanics!!!
July 16, 2008
Why do Asian students generally get higher marks than Latinos? Lincoln High students have candid ideas. – Los Angeles
July 15, 2008
Migrants see lives improve in U.S. – Sun Valley, California – (kind of a strange headline for the content but worth reading)
July 14, 2008
Take Action: Ramiro Carrillo Rodriguez was the fourth farm worker in the last two weeks to die of heat stroke.
July 13, 2008
Escondido tries to rid itself of undocumented immigrants – California
June 23, 2008
Latino children are behind in preschool enrollment – California
June 17, 2008
Tu Ciudad magazine closure
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
June 3, 2008
Latina Soccer Referee Bound for Beijing – Verónica Pérez
June 2, 2008
Girl Scouts trying to speak young Latinas’ language – Spanish Trails Council is offering bilingual camps this summer to attract new members and their parents. – California
May 29, 2008
There’s lots to celebrate at Chicano graduation – Cal State Bakersfield
May 28, 2008
New generation of L.A.-area Latino leaders aren’t as friendly toward ‘amigo stores’ – Cities like Baldwin Park are turning away from ethnic-oriented retail projects in favor of mainstream businesses. Starbucks is welcome.
May 27, 2008
Co-chair of Clinton’s Hispanic Leadership Council endorses Obama – U.S. Rep. Dennis Cardoza
May 21, 2008
“New Center to Study Immigrant Integration” – Mayor Villaraigosa attends a conference featuring the announcement by USC College and the School of Policy, Planning and Develop
May 15, 2008
Survey: Latinos likely online, bilingual in choice of media – San Diego
May 13, 2008
California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez leaves the speaker’s post
May 8, 2008
Are Immigration Authorities Going After School Children Now? – If true, then it’s hard to imagine the cruelty that resides in these people’s hearts
DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale – Sacramento’s Steven Ybarra Wants $20 Million For His Vote
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.
New Los Angeles County law cracking down on taco catering trucks
April 15, 2008
Chivas USA wants to add a marquee Mexican-born player – Deadline for signing players outside the U.S. is Tuesday, but another window opens June 15
Did You Know? The University of California system admitted 12,432 students of Hispanic descent – that’s 1,717 or 16% more than last year
