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Cinco de Mayo Parade Winners

STOCKTON, CA -  Sunday May 6, 2012 the Coalition of Mexican American organizations (COMA) held their annual Cinco de Mayo parade in Downtown Stockton. COMA hires a professional judges association, Pacific COast Judges Association, to judge the parade and give awards to the best parade entries with the theme of ‘Peace in the Valley.’ Continue reading »

OPINION: In numbers no-one beats us, but… What is the benefit of being many?

Armando Cervantes Editor of Cambalache Newspaper

Armando A. Cervantes-Bastidas is the Editor of Tracy, California’s “Cambalache” Newspaper 

For a long time we have asked for amnesty legislation without any positive results.  If the same demands continue without a conclusive cultural and educational base, the effort will be useless.  What we should highlight—with firmness—are the successful achievements our culture has contributed to this nation, which start even before this nation’s roots.  We should show the Caucasians that we are good students and we don’t just complain or publicly protest. Continue reading »

Audio books for Military personnel

Boots N Books with Charterhouse for Families. Photo by Mayra Barrios

Connect parents in service and their children

Charterhouse Center for Families in partnership with Karl Ross Post 16 launched its Boots-N-Books campaign.  Boots-N-Books is a program that brings military families together through literacy and books.  The kick-off campaign was on Wednesday, March 7th at the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce. Continue reading »

Carlos Villapudua files for Re-Election of the 1st District County Board of Supervisors

Supervisor Carlos Villapudua announces his campaign for reelection for the first San Joaquin Supervisorial District.

STOCKTON  – San Joaquin County Supervisor Carlos Villapudua announced his candidacy for re-election for the County Board of Supervisors 1st District on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Continue reading »

Struggle for Equality Continues for Civil Rights Generation

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New America Media, Commentary, L. Toni Lewis, Posted: Mar 03, 2012

Adorned in a freshly-ironed dress and satchel for her books, Ruby Bridges, age six, walked past an angry mob and into the doors of William Frantz Elementary School. The girl’s father was initially reluctant to let his daughter become the school’s first African American student, but her mother felt strongly that the move was needed not only to give her daughter a better education but rather to “take this step forward for all African American children.” Continue reading »

I Have a Voice: Jeremy Terhune

Peace Corps Volunteer continues to advocate for community

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Expert Says Oil Prices Will Drop, Explains Why Gas Cost Really Spiked

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Editor’s Note: Why is the price of gas spiking? While Republican candidates blame President Obama, energy experts point to global market forces at work—the complications of supply and demand. To get the inside story, New America Media’s Ngoc Nguyen interviewed David Hackett, president of Stillwater Associates, an energy consulting firm specializing in the transportation-fuels market, based in Irvine, Calif. Following are excerpts from her interview.

New America Media (NAM): In the United States, gasoline demand is down and domestic production has been growing, so why are we seeing a spike in prices at the pump?
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IRS Releases the Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2012

Tax (Photo credit: 401K)

WASHINGTON –– The Internal Revenue Service today issued its annual “Dirty Dozen” ranking of tax scams, reminding taxpayers to use caution during tax season to protect themselves against a wide range of schemes ranging from identity theft to return preparer fraud. Continue reading »

Campaign to Cut Waste: U.S. will stop Production of Excess Dollar Coins

By Mayra Barrios

WASHINGTON- Vice President Biden announced on Tuesday December, 13 that the U.S. Mint would suspend the production of Presidential dollar coins for circulation as part of the Obama Administration’s Campaign to Cut Waste.

An estimate of 1.4 billion surplus dollar coins are sitting in Federal Reserve vaults due to lack of demand for the coins. By halting this unnecessary production, the Administration will save taxpayers at least $50 million per year in production and storage costs. 

In 2005, Congress enacted the Presidential $1 Coin Act, which mandated that the United States Mint issue new Presidential $1 Coins with the likeness of every deceased President.  But more than 40 percent of the $1 coins that the United States Mint has issued have been returned to the Federal Reserve, because nobody wants to use them.

EDITORIAL: Going Postal over the Post Office

Sarah Lippincott

(bw) Today, if I want to buy postage stamps, mail a letter or drop off a package – there is a post office offering all those services within 16 minutes from where I work. But soon, it could disappear, due to a $5.1 billion dollar deficit and tight new legislative restrictions imposed on the U.S. Postal Service. Continue reading »

Day of the Dead Increases its Community Presence

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CA — Members of the Mexican Heritage Center and Gallery in Stockton, CA, remembered their loved ones by elaborating on “ofrendas” (altars) in their memory; while communities in Mexico and other Latin American countries observed the memory of their loved ones in celebration of “Dia de Muertos” (Day of the Dead).

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Festival seeks To Educate on the Corn Crisis in Mexico

by Mayra Barrios (bw) SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY – Cristina Gonzales spent her childhood learning about the native corn production alongside her father in Michoacán, Mexico.

Today, Gonzales is part of Los Hijos Migrantes del Maiz (Migrant Children of the Corn); a committee that has organized the Corn Festival in Stockton in the last four years — a festival which this year took place at Taft Park on Sunday August 28. Continue reading »

American Jobs Act Released

Washington, D.C. – September 13, 2011 President Barak Obama released the 199 page American Jobs Act to Congress following the September 8 proposal in an adress to Congress

The full bill is available to view here: http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/american-jobs-actslides

You may join senior White House officials on Twitter next week for office hours  if you have any questions on the Act.

EVENT: $500 in Vouchers and Free emission testing for up to 525 vehicals

epa testing :Image by The U.S. National Archives via Flickr

Saturday, September 10 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. San Joaquin Delta College, Shima 2 Parking lot will be hosting a free vehicle emissions test for u to 525 vehicals with San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and Valley CAN. Continue reading »

An Interview with California’s Secretary of Natural Resources – John Laird

www.bilingualweekly.com Special to bw by Deanna Lynn Wulff

John Laird

CALIFORNIA- John Laird has a pivotal and powerful position. As the new California Secretary of Natural Resources, he is at the center of controversial issues such as Delta water management and park and wildlife protection. Continue reading »