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FBI agent: Criminals targeting Hispanics
Criminals increasingly see newly arrived Hispanic immigrants as targets for easy money, a top FBI agent said Saturday at a conference on issues facing the Hispanic community.
Steven F. Burroughs, a supervisory special agent and the agency’s civi....
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Do Texas Dems hold winning hand?
Texas Democrats are in the process of trying to draw an inside straight. If successful, they will elect the first Democratic governor since Ann Richards, who was defeated by George W. Bush in 1994. This is not as crazy as you might think.
In p....
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HUGO CHÁVEZ’S PEACE
OFFERING
I met Fanny Riva Palacio, an editor with Mexico City’s El Heraldo at the time (now she’s a university professor), during that country’s 1994 presidential election. We were paired to interview María Elena Cruz Varela, a writer who had just....
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HOUSE AND SENATE RACES PRODUCE NET GAINS FOR DEMOCRATS
Although votes were still being counted in states like Alaska and Minnesota; election results showed that Democrats would gain at least 17 seats to add to their majority. There were 11 races still being counted on Wednesday morning and news organiz....
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AMERICAN VOTERS MAKE HISTORY – ELECT BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT
When the polls finally closed on Election Day; this country had achieved a point in its history like no other.
For the first time in our 232 year history; Barack Obama, whose political aspirations were equally matched by his campaigning abilities,....
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FOR LATINO VOTE, THE FUTURE IS NOW
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Gary Trudeau, creator of the comic strip Doonesbury, writes his cartoon far ahead of time, and that is why he declared Barack Obama winner of the presidential race before the first election-day polls opened.
My deadline is simila....
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THE MYTH OF THE LATINO VOTE
Aside from passionate political discussions, populist promises and negative campaigns that flirt with libel, presidential elections also have the peculiarity of rediscovering forgotten groups of voters every four years.
Since the number of Hispa....
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LATINO PRESIDENTIAL VOTE HAS BEEN CRITICAL SINCE 1980
The fact is Latinos have already made a difference in presidential elections.
You might think it silly to have to prove that but some people never get the news.
In fact, it is easy to argue that Latinos experienced presidential election s....
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WILL POLLSTERS BE PROVEN RIGHT ON ELECTION DAY?
In 1982 the polls in California showed that Democratic candidate Tom Bradley would easily win the governorship of that state. After all; he was leading comfortably in every poll taken at the time.
At that time; the issue of race had been discusse....
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VOTER TURNOUT ON RECORD PACE
Through the first seven days of early voting, close to 40,000 registered Lubbock County voters had cast their ballot in the November General Election.
If this pattern continues; and if national figures are accurate; this election will produce one ....
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ALASKA SENATOR GUILTY OF CORRUPTION
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was found guilty of 7 counts of public corruption in a jury trial which concluded with the guilty verdict on October 27, 2008.
Although Stephens had maintained his innocence throughout the trial; the jury clearly disagre....
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ACORN IN MIDDLE OF VOTER REGISTRATION STORM
One would think that the process of registering people to vote would be fairly simple. And in most cases; it is.
Here in Lubbock for example, civic organizations like the local LULAC Council 263 might hold a registration drive where it sets up a r....
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FOLKSY RHETORIC AND PERSONAL ATTACKS NOT IMPRESSIVE
Shortly after the Republican convention; a McCain campaign spokesperson made it a point to say that this election would not be about issues but rather about personalities.
Judging by the political commentary after the recent vice presidential debat....
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OBAMA’S MISSPELLED NAME ON BALLOT; MISTAKE OR INTENTIONAL?
Election officials were scrambling last week to explain how the name “Obama” became “Osama” on at least 300 of its absentee ballots mailed out to voters.
Officials in Rennsselaer County in upstate New York downplayed the error calling it a mistake....
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RICHARDSON SAYS CLINTON HOLDS A GRUDGE
“I did what I thought was best for the country” says New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
But apparently not everyone sees it that way; including former President Bill Clinton.
In an interview on National Public Radio; New Mexico Governor Bill Ri....
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