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Veronica Carter Public News Service Immigrant rights groups are stepping forward to help those affected by President Trump’s executive order barring entrance into the U.S. by refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Lawrence Benito, CEO and executive director at the Illinois Coalition for Immigration and Refugee Rights, said people...
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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...
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Raoul Lowery Contreras Special to El Observador Mr. Trump, California’s Central Valley grapes, almonds and peaches are not being picked; in San Francisco, fast growing, booming new restaurants are being down-sized and fewer jobs being created; in Texas, the building boom has slowed and contractors are turning down contracts...
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Suzanne Potter Public News Service CARSON CITY, Nev. – The country’s first Latina U.S. Senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, was sworn into office on Tuesday representing the Silver State, a point of pride for Hispanic leaders in Nevada. The Democrat is the first female Hispanic senator ever, and one of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
Veronica Carter Public News Service Immigrant rights groups are stepping forward to help those affected by President Trump’s executive order barring entrance into the U.S. by refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Lawrence Benito, CEO and executive director at the Illinois Coalition for Immigration and Refugee Rights, said people...
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...
Raoul Lowery Contreras Special to El Observador Mr. Trump, California’s Central Valley grapes, almonds and peaches are not being picked; in San Francisco, fast growing, booming new restaurants are being down-sized and fewer jobs being created; in Texas, the building boom has slowed and contractors are turning down contracts...
Suzanne Potter Public News Service CARSON CITY, Nev. – The country’s first Latina U.S. Senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, was sworn into office on Tuesday representing the Silver State, a point of pride for Hispanic leaders in Nevada. The Democrat is the first female Hispanic senator ever, and one of...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...