• Rebuilding Wealth Through Home Ownership

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR  The “Rebuilding Wealth Through Homeownership” happened Friday, December 9, 2016 at Microsoft’s Conference Center, Mountain View, CA. This event was organized by former CA Assemblymember Joe Coto. This topic is of great interest to the general public who needs to know that in Silicon Valley,...
  • Discussion On DACA & Undocumented Students

    Saratoga, CA – West Valley College will sponsor a discussion on undocumented students and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) this Wednesday, December 7, at 2:30 p.m. in the WVC Campus Center. Leading the discussion will be Bill Ong Hing, director of the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic...
  • County Against Mass Deportations

    County Board Votes Unanimously to Plan Expanding Legal Representation Mass Deportation Victims  Santa Clara County, CA—On December 6th the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to direct Administration to come back with a plan to provide community outreach and legal representation to victims of mass deportation at its...
  • Property Taxes Need to be Paid by December 12, 2016

    San Jose, CA  The first installment of the 2016/2017 property taxes was due and payable on November 1 and will be delinquent if not paid by 5:00 p.m., Monday, December 12, 2016.  If delinquent, a 10 percent penalty and a $20 cost will be added, in accordance with the...
  • CA Vets Almost Free from Paying Back Bonuses

    Logan Pollard California News Service LOS ANGELES – It looks like thousands of California veterans will soon be released from any obligation to pay back millions of dollars to the Pentagon. The new agreement was folded into the latest National Defense Authorization Act, the defense appropriations legislation that the...
  • Subvenciones concedidas de la Medida Q

    Quince organizaciones, incluyendo los Latinos United for a New America (LUNA), reciben fondos para reforzar proyectos medioambientales locales San José, CA-La Junta Directiva de la Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority ha concedido $1,553,077 en el ciclo inicial de subsidios para el programa de subvenciones competitivo de la Medida...
  • La devoción a la Virgen de Guadalupe

    Mario Jiménez Castillo El Observador  Millones de fieles devotos conmemoran en estas fechas a la Virgen Morena, Virgen de Guadalupe, son millares de personas quienes llegan a la Basílica de la Virgen en la ciudad de México, el día 12 de diciembre, según los fieles, el caudal de sus...
  • Should You Buy an Ultra HD Premium TV?

    Shelly Palmer  Ultra HD (aka 4K) televisions have been widely available (at reasonable prices) for only a couple of years. The sets have four times the pixels of good old-fashioned HDTVs (aka 2K) and come in practical sizes up to 7′ diagonal. That’s all great, but with the advent...
  • Give the gift of Responsible Budgeting

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR During my entire childhood (from birth to age 17), my parents never talked to me about money, especially the need to budget what income the family could depend upon. I grew up during the 1929-40 Great Depression, which was an ‘economic recovery process’ taking 10...
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