• Career Politician Shouldn’t be Attorney General

    Mary Kuhlman Public News Service  Hundreds of legal scholars from almost every state are objecting to the president-elect’s choice of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., for U.S. attorney general. More than 1,200 law professors, including Eric Berger at the University of Nebraska, have signed a letter urging Congress to reject...
  • Think Tank Challenges Brookings Report on Segregation

    Veronica Carter Public News Service  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – An education think tank has taken a closer look at a report on school segregation that came out this fall from the Center for Children and Families at the Brookings Institution. It found that poverty, not race, is the real challenge...
  • Social Media Skewers NASA Scientist for Comet Comments

    Logan Pollard California News Service SAN FRANCISCO – One recent “explosion” on social media is about the potential for an actual explosion. At a meeting of nuclear scientists in San Francisco last week, Dr. Joseph Nuth, the Senior Scientist for Primitive Bodies at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said...
  • El futuro del Español

    Sandhya Kalavacherla Especial para El Observador  La comunidad latina es la minoría más grande en los Estados Unidos, la cual compone el 17% de la población nacional. Para 2060, se estima que hispanos constituirán el 28% de la población total, lo que equivale a unos 119 millones de habitantes....
  • Trump Selects Senator Jeff Sessions

    Sessions Will Likely Bring Back Harsh Drug Sentences, Block State Marijuana Programs  Drug Policy Alliance  Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has been selected by Donald Trump to be the next Attorney General. “Jeff Sessions is a drug war dinosaur, which is the last thing the nation needs now,” said Ethan...
  • Tri-Caucus Leadership condemns Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday November 18, 2016 the Congressional Tri-Caucus – which is comprised of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), released the following joint statement regarding the selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General: ...
  • Comentarios sobre Senador Jeff Sessions y Congresista Mike Pompeo

    San Francisco – La líder Demócrata de la Cámara de Representantes Nancy Pelosi el viernes 18 de noviembre hizo las siguientes declaraciones después de que se reportó que el Presidente electo Donald Trump selecciono al Senador Jeff Sessions como Fiscal General y al Congresista Mike Pompeo como Director de...
  • Gen Y & Z in San Francisco Don’t Feel like Adults

    Bank of America/USA TODAY Better Money Habits Report Shows Student Debt/College Affordability Is Top Issue Among Young Voters in Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO – A newly released Bank of America/USA TODAY Better Money Habits report finds that for 18- to 26-year olds in the San Francisco area, the definition...
  • The Other Candidate: Gloria La Riva

    Gloria La Riva is a presidential nominee set on creating a movement, not a moment Arturo Hilario El Observador The Freedom and Liberation Party is not one that you may have heard during the frenzy that has been the 2016 Presidential Election. You may have already voted, or made...
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