• Pokémon Go: Tiny Monsters Among Us

    Arturo Hilario El Observador It hit like a thief in the night. Not since the late 1990’s has the Pokémon fever been as pervasive as in the last 2 weeks as Pokémon Go, Niantic’s collaboration with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company, released for free on Apple’s iTunes Store and...
  • Drug Bust Nets $33 Million Worth of Marijuana

    SANTA CLARA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE MARIJUANA ERADICATION TEAM ERADICATED $33 MILLION DOLLARS OF MARIJUANA IN 5 OPERATIONS Office of the Sheriff On July 15, 2016, the Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Eradication Team (MET) eradicated a marijuana grow on UCSC property at Mt. Hamilton and Kincaid Road in unincorporated Santa Clara...
  • Officer Involved Shootings

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR San Jose’s residents need to understand that “Officer-involved shooting” will not include the SJ Independent Police Auditor when no complaint is filed. As a result, during 2015 when 12 shooting incidents occurred, and only three residents filed a complaint, only those three OIS incidents included...
  • Anti-Poverty March Calls for Economic Justice at RNC

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – 341 California Republicans, delegates and alternates, are in Cleveland for the start of the Republican National Convention. On their hour-long commute from their hotel, they undoubtedly saw some protesters. One of those protests involved thousands of people for an anti-poverty rally...
  • Santos Protectores del Zodiaco

    Mario Jiménez Castillo El Observador Aries Un Santo que ilumina tu vida es San Expedito, un oficial romano del siglo IV que se convirtió al cristianismo y fue sacrificado un 19 de Abril. Pídele con fe por tu futuro económico y para el amor. Se le conoce como el...
  • Immigration Corner

      By Raul Ray, Esq. On June 27, 2015, in a landmark opinion, Obergefell v. Hodges, The US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the United States. Gay and lesbian couples already could marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The court’s...
  • Virtual Reality and Environment

     Have environmentalists started using Virtual Reality (VR) to further their cause?  Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk  Virtual Reality (VR) is no doubt the hottest thing in electronics and entertainment today, with “immersive” 360-degree experiences increasingly available via the click of a mouse or tap of a screen. And...
  • CA Farmworkers’ Against Pesticides Near Schools

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – About 150 farmworkers’ families and their advocates plan to rally tomorrow in front of the California state PEA office in Sacramento. The groups are concerned with the toxicity of pesticides applied near schools, and say they’ve been waiting for the Department...
  • Racial Profiling Board Meets for First Time

    Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES – In a week where news of police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota has filled the airwaves, California is taking concrete steps to fight racial profiling – with the first meeting of the new Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory...
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