• ENTERING THE “ENCANTO”

    Arturo Hilario El Observador Walt Disney Animation Studios released its first full-length film in 1937 with “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. That first Disney Animated film began a cultural phenomenon of entertainment and storytelling style that continues to grow and diversify 84 years later. Now the studios 60th...
  • HAY LUZ AL FINAL DEL TÚNEL

    Después de permanecer durante años en las sombras, el espíritu del bipartidismo reapareció esta semana en una luminosa tarde otoñal en la capital de los Estados Unidos. Durante una ceremonia concurrida por republicanos y demócratas, el presidente Joe Biden promulgó el ambicioso paquete bipartidista de infraestructura física por más...
  • La Devoción a Santo Domingo de Guzmán  

    Santo Domingo es un santo muy aclamado dentro de la comunidad de creyentes, durante siglos se le ha considerado como un ángel y santo piadoso. Concede favores y  milagros en casos de angustia, habladurías, calumnias, y se dice que cura enfermedades físicas y emocionales. Su historia está llena de...
  • Advocates Call Build Back Better Essential For Environmental Justice

    ORLANDO, Fla. – Advocates are calling on Florida’s leaders to keep the momentum going after the U.N. Climate Change Summit by thinking of ways to Build Back Better in the Sunshine State. As Congress debates President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, which supporters say would benefit millions of Floridians with...
  • VOTING RIGHTS IS THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE OF OUR TIME

    Mark Hedin Ethnic Media Services It’s the “civil rights issue of our time,” voting rights advocates say, but three different proposals to strengthen and create nationwide standards on voting are all stalled in Congress. “Democracy is facing challenges unlike any we have seen in modern time,” said Wade Henderson,...
  • Q&A: The Groovy and the Inspirational “Hairspray”

    Arturo Hilario El Observador Brandon G. Stallings is an actor originally from the South Side of Chicago, who from the age of four joined in singing in his local church choir and eventually found himself immersed in music, dancing and acting. Recently we had an opportunity to speak to...
  • Winged warning: Migrating birds hit hard by California’s drought

    It says something about the complexity of California’s water crisis that there are so many actors in the state’s water wars, all clamoring for more. Nature, alone, is silent in this fight, relying on others to speak on behalf of the welfare of wildlife and waterways. Across the state,...
  • California redistricting: Four key questions

    It took weeks of long, late-night meetings full of wonky debate and digital line drawing — as well as a haiku and at least two songs as public comment. But Wednesday night, California’s independent redistricting commission reached a key milestone: Its first official maps are out. The citizen panel voted unanimously to release...
  • EarthTalk Q&A: Washing the dishes by hand vs dishwasher

    Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Hands-down, the dishwasher is the way to go, not only from the standpoint of water waste and energy use but also to preserve your own sanity. Who needs to be scrubbing, rinsing and drying dishes all day when an efficient machine can do...
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