• CA Advocates Cheer

    04/07/2016
    Suzanne Potter / California News Service SAN FRANCISCO – Voting-rights advocates are celebrating Monday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to reaffirm the concept of “one person, one vote,” rejecting attempts to change the way state legislative districts are drawn. In the case, Evenwel v. Abbott, the plaintiff argued that...

  • Local Wastewater Facility

    04/07/2016
    San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility Master Plan Wins Prestigious National Achievement Award from American Planning Association San Jose / CALIFORNIA The San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility (RWF) is receiving national accolades for its Plant Master Plan (PMP), a 30-year roadmap for projects to rebuild the aging wastewater...

  • BLM Lands

    04/07/2016
    Suzanne Potter / California News Service A new study commissioned by Pew Charitable Trusts shows about $329 million pour into California’s economy each year from so-called “quiet” recreation on Bureau of Land Management-managed lands. It said pursuits such as camping, fishing, hiking and hunting mean tourists spend $244 million directly...

  • Latino Education Summit

    04/07/2016
      “This event represents a unique collaboration amongst K – 12 schools and Santa Clara University, as it  presents the opportunity to engage in a meaningful dialogue on how we can better serve the needs of the most worthy” – Ed Alvarez, President, The Foundation for Hispanic Education “We...

  • Earth First!?

    04/07/2016
    Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss /EarthTalk Car bomb injuries, prison terms, and death were among the perils protestors with the Earth First! (EF!) movement faced throughout the 1990s. EF! formed in 1979, in response to what they called an increasingly corporate, compromising and ineffective environmental community. Throughout the 1980s and...

  • The Panama Papers

    04/07/2016
    Arturo Hilario / El Observador On October 11, 2011 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders warned about the the Panama Free Trade Agreement, which would allow US corporations and those with money to place funds into untaxed shell corporations, thus leaving the hidden wealth intact. “Its (Panama) entire economic output is only...

  • The Jungle Book

    04/07/2016
    Disney Director Jon Favreau takes Audiences on a wild ride in“The Jungle Book” an all-new, live-action epic adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub raised by a family of wolves. But Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan, who bears the scars of...

  • Compadres

    04/07/2016
    Pantelion Films Después de ser liberado de la cárcel, GARZA (Omar Chaparro), un ex policía en busca venganza ante SANTOS (Erick Elias), quien ha secuestrado a su novia MARIA (Aislinn Derbez) y lo ha culpado de un crimen que no cometió. Para recuperar a su novia y demostrar al...

  • FESTIVAL UNVEILS 2016 LINE-UP

    04/07/2016
    San Francisco /CALIFORNIA Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly and Starr Hill unveiled the line-up this week for the 9th annual Outside Lands Music Festival. The world’s only gourmet music festival takes place August 5th – 7th, as ever in San Francisco’s historic Golden Gate Park. Following five consecutive sold out...
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