• ALearn Launches Catalyst to College Program

    Designed to prepare high school students from underserved, low-income backgrounds for college admission and success in college SANTA CLARA, CA – ALearn, a Bay Area non-profit helping students from low-income, underserved backgrounds achieve math proficiency and college readiness, announced this week the launch of the Catalyst to College program,...
  • Adiós a Barack Obama

    Por José López Zamorano Para La Red Hispana Quedará grabada en los libros de historia la hazaña, sin precedentes en la historia de este país, que significó la elección del primer presidente afroamericano. La llegada de Barack Obama a la Casa Blanca en 2009 trajo consigo un alud de...
  • Has the ‘Two Party System’ Failed?

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR The Middle Class (work force, professional, skilled and unskilled), have essential needs which are not being addressed by either of the two major political parties. The Democratic and Republican Parties spend most of their resources in efforts to attain power and influence. Is it time...
  • Alexa, The Killer App

    Shelly Palmer The superstar of CES® 2017 was not a car, or a robot, or even a TV; it was Alexa Voice Service (AVS), the software that allows you to control compatible devices with your voice. Various reports estimated there were 700–1,100 Alexa-controllable products at the show. I can’t...
  • La leyenda del viernes 13

    Mario Jiménez Castillo El Observador Durante más de setecientos años el día Viernes 13 se ha considerado como un día de augurios perniciosos, misteriosos y hasta funestos. Desde los primeros albores de la era cristiana, los obispos de Roma temerosos que algún día claudicaran sus juicios y dictámenes, tomaron...
  • Immigration in 2017 under Trump Administration

    By Raul Ray, Esq. With the inauguration of President-Elect Trump around the corner, there is tremendous anxiety in immigrant communities across the country on the future of immigration in the USA. During his campaign, Trump repeatedly promised to ramp up enforcement of our immigration laws, go on a border...
  • Foreigners in America, January 20

    Raoul Lowery Contreras Special to El Observador Thousands of Muslims striving to come to America can cancel their plane tickets at noon January 20. The largest immigrant cohort to the U.S., Mexicans, legally and illegally in the U.S. can start looking over their shoulders at noon January 20 because...
  • Children’s Advocates Push Back on ACA Repeal

    Logan Pollard California News Service LOS ANGELES – on Tuesday January 10th, children’s advocates petitioned members of Congress from California, asking them to look at the possible fallout from ending “Obamacare.” The group, Children Now, along with nearly 700 other organizations, contacted state lawmakers in Sacramento in December, urging...
  • Better Business Bureau Seeks to Highlight Ethical Businesses

    BBB announces ‘call for entries’ for annual Torch Awards for Ethics competition Is your business committed to marketplace trust? BBB is now accepting Torch Awards entries from local businesses at go.bbb.org/sf-torchawards/. Any for-profit business headquartered in BBB’s 13-county service area that has been in business for at least three...
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