As the Thanksgiving holiday ends, the nation is perched to hear what is being descr ibed as President Obama’s most important speech to date. He will stand before Army cadets at West Point military academy and lay out his plans for increasing troops to Afghanistan to the tune of 30 thousand.
The TX Board of Pardons voted to spare the life of Robert Lee Thompson, who took part in a robbery that led to a murder. The killer was serving life. Perry chose to kill him anyway.
There’s been a lot of talk about the anti-immigrant Tea Party types coming together to stomp out President Obama’s attempts for immigration reform. Somebody needs to give them a memo and let them know it’s not gonna happen at this date and time.
“Texas” comes from the Hasinai word táysha, meaning “friend.” The Hasinai Confederation is part of the Caddo Nation Native American tribe from East Texas. The Caddo were one of the hundreds of different tribes that first inhabited the Texas – Mexico region.
EDINBURG, Nov. 18 - Robert Nelsen says the Rio Grande Valley is the biggest education laboratory in the United States, which is why he wanted to be president of UT-Pan American.
Nelsen will become UTPA’s eighth president on Jan. 1, 2010. He explained how humbled and thrilled he was to be taking the new position in a brief but passionate speech to students, faculty and staff in the Student Union auditorium on Wednesday afternoon. He has big ambitions for the university.
“I am humbled and thrilled to have this opportunity to partner with you to make UTPA the shining star of education, in the Valley, in Texas, in the nation,” Nelsen said. “We will be the university that everybody else wants to emulate. We will be the one that they will say, ‘we got it right,’ because we will do it together.”
Among those listening to Nelsen’s speech were UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, UT System Regent Janiece Longoria, and UTPA Interim President Charles Sorber. Longoria was on the search panel that recommended Nelsen to the UT System Board of Regents. She described him as “formidable, articulate and charismatic.” She said he spoke compellingly “from the heart.”
Congressman Ciro Rodriguez, of TX 23 has left many women and pro-choice advocates disappointed with his support of the Stupak Amendment, which will restrict a woman's ability to get an abortion.
In 1986, the Dallas County District Attorney's office used an official training manual that TRAINED Dallas County prosecutors to keep racial minorities off juries. Twenty years later, people with white skin are the racial minority in Dallas and the District Attorney is a black gentleman.
Last week we reported how the Tea Party folks were gonna be organizing Anti-Immigrant rallies in 50 cities around the country. The rhetoric being used was pretty inflammatory and it was noted that people should be aware of attacks…
Pioneering Hip Hop icon MC Lyte, along with Brave New Voices featuring spoken word icon Marc Bamuthi Joseph, recently touched down in Houston for the Discovery Green /Life is Living Festival and got seriously busy. She let the packed crowd know that female emcees weren’t a rarity in Hip Hop and that people need to turn off their radios and not be a statistic for outlets that don’t fully represent them or the culture they love. She alerted people to her new website project called HipHopSisters.com which strives to be a safe space for women in Hip Hop.
I hail Lou Dobbs resignation from CNN. I also congratulate Presente.org and all their allies for their audacious leadership in holding “Goliath CNN” accountable for their hypocritical behavior in enabling openly bigoted Lou Dobbs over the years. The resignation of Mr. Dobbs should serve as a warning to all those that promote racism, racial profiling and bigotry against immigrants and Latinos with impunity. Dobbs resignation heralds the beginning of the end of the current era of anti-immigrant policies, practices, and laws.
