• Teaching Steph Curry the Spin

    Prior to tonight’s Golden States Warriors vs Miami Heat game at Oracle Arena, Steph Curry had a “dream come true” with the Harlem Globetrotters, who are in town preparing for seven games in the Bay Area.  While taking a picture with Globetrotters stars Handles Franklin and Scooter Christensen, Curry...
  • Nominee for Coach of the Year Selected by Raiders Organization

    Warren Keller of the California School for the Deaf is Oakland Raiders’ nominee for Don Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year Award raiders.com Warren Keller was selected as the Oakland Raiders’ nominee for the Don Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year Award, it was announced...
  • Just How Dangerous Is Alexa?

    Just How Dangerous Is Alexa? Shelly Palmer The “willing suspension of disbelief” is the idea that we (the audience, readers, viewers, content consumers) are willing to suspend judgment about the implausibility of the narrative for the quality of our own enjoyment. We do it all the time. Two-dimensional video...
  • Las 9 Potencias Africanas

    Mario Jiménez Castillo El Observador  Elegguá Es uno de los orishas más venerados y “el primero” que debe ser invocado. Él es el poseedor de la llave que abre todas las puertas y caminos. Olofi, el dios creador le entregó la llave de todos los caminos. Elegguá tiene veintiún...
  • Pelosi on Republicans Destroying Office of Congressional Ethics in Rules Package

    Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the House Republican Conference voted to include the Goodlatte amendment in the House Republicans Rules package which effectively destroys the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, preventing it from reviewing anonymous complaints and moving it under the control...
  • Memo to President-Elect Donald J. Trump

    Raoul Lowery Contreras Special to El Observador Mr. Trump, California’s Central Valley grapes, almonds and peaches are not being picked; in San Francisco, fast growing, booming new restaurants are being down-sized and fewer jobs being created; in Texas, the building boom has slowed and contractors are turning down contracts...
  • Nation’s First Latina U.S. Senator Sworn In

    Suzanne Potter Public News Service CARSON CITY, Nev. – The country’s first Latina U.S. Senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, was sworn into office on Tuesday representing the Silver State, a point of pride for Hispanic leaders in Nevada. The Democrat is the first female Hispanic senator ever, and one of...
  • Career Politician Shouldn’t be Attorney General

    Mary Kuhlman Public News Service  Hundreds of legal scholars from almost every state are objecting to the president-elect’s choice of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., for U.S. attorney general. More than 1,200 law professors, including Eric Berger at the University of Nebraska, have signed a letter urging Congress to reject...
  • President Barack Obama’s Environmental Legacy

    Now that his second term is winding down, what will his environmental actions say about his tenure as the 44th President of the United States? EarthTalk Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss The environment may not have been one of candidate Barack Obama’s signature issues in the run-up to the...
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