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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR Most people living in America know little about the International Workers’ Day or “May Day”. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don’t realize that “May...
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Por José López Zamorano La Red Hispana Desde esta semana la Corte Suprema de Justicia cuenta con sus 9 miembros reglamentarios, luego de la juramentación de Neil Gorsuch como el magistrado número 113 en sustitución del juez conservador Antonin Scalia, al cabo de un proceso marcado por divisiones entre...
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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR California’s Senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins have co-authored SB 562, ‘The Healthy California Act’ so as to enable California’s residents to have single payer universal health care insurance coverage as a state program. The 2017-18 CA State Assembly needs to pass this bill despite...
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Por José López Zamorano La Red Hispana En unas semanas, el 28 de abril, vence el plazo para que los líderes republicanos y demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes y del Senado alcancen un acuerdo presupuestal para el resto del año fiscal 2017 que permita evitar la parálisis del...
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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR What transportation programs will really be funded and implemented by the 2016 Measure B sales tax revenues which will be managed by the County of Santa Clara’s Valley Transit Authority (VTA)? This 2016 Measure, approved by 72% of those who voted last November 8, 2016,...
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Estephany Haro El Observador On Monday, the California senate passed bill SB 54 in response of President Trump’s anti-immigration policies. The bill, proposed by California State Senate President Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) would apply a set of sanctuary policies statewide that would prevent law enforcement from working with...
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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR According to Rachel Maddow’s commentary (MSNBC 04.02.17, President Trump made a public statement favoring America’s having a ‘universal health care plan’ with a single payor. The U.S. Congress needs to take advantage of this ‘very reasonable statement’ by acting like a non-partisan deliberative body which...
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Por José López Zamorano La Red Hispana Más latinos trabajan en la agricultura que el resto de los grupos raciales o étnicos de Estados Unidos en su conjunto. De acuerdo con cifras censales, más de 736,000 latinos laboran en el campo, la pesca y los bosques, comparado con 638,000...
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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR Introduced by Assembly Member Rob Bonta (CA District 18; Alameda) and supported by six assembly members and four Senators, AB 42 seeks to reform the current jail bail bond industry. A Blue Ribbon Commission recommendation was to reform the current law enforcement-judicial system which results...