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Nury Martinez's resignation as president of the LA City Council left behind a power void.

COMMENTARY: Who will fill the void left by Nury Martínez on the LA City Council?

by Gabriel Lerner March 14, 2023March 15, 2023

There are seven candidates and a write-in running for the 6th District, including four Latinos. Few voters usually participate in the midterm elections. And the more candidates who split the vote, the better. That means that in order to win, they need a fraction of what they normally should get.

The Peace and Healing Centers, launched by the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department, are part of the city’s first participatory budgeting pilot program called Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgement of Institutional Racism (LA REPAIR).

Justice

Peace and Healing Centers help most vulnerable communities in Los Angeles

by Brenda Fernanda Verano March 7, 2023March 9, 2023

This February, nine Peace & Healing Centers are expected to open and begin offering services to working-class residents living across the various communities in Los Angeles. The centers, launched by the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department (LA Civil Rights), are part of the city’s first participatory budgeting pilot program called Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgement of Institutional Racism (LA REPAIR).

Marco Davis represents a new generation of Latino leadership in the country, running one of the premier groups in the nation's capital as president and CEO of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI).

Politics

COMMENTARY: Marco Davis and cultivating Latino Leaders

by Patricia Guadalupe February 21, 2023February 21, 2023

Marco Davis, a former Obama administration official, grew up in the New York City area as the son of a Jamaican father and Mexican mother, and is a graduate of Yale University. He brings more than two decades of public policy and community service experience as CHCI’s sixth president and describes how he felt when he was first approached for the top CHCI job.

Opinion

COMMENTARY: We need more Latinas in political leadership

by Denise Ramos-Vega February 14, 2023February 14, 2023

Latinas represented in politics

One name floating around is former Los Angeles congressman and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. While he hasn’t commented about it – and wouldn’t as a sitting Cabinet secretary anyway – Becerra is on a hypothetical short list that includes former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, among others.

Opinion

COMMENTARY: Could California have two U.S. Latino/a/x senators?

by Patricia Guadalupe February 7, 2023March 1, 2023

Politicians are eyeing the senate seat of Dianne Feinstein. Could California see two Latinos in the U.S. Senate? One name floating around is former Los Angeles congressman and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. While he hasn’t commented about it – and wouldn’t as a sitting Cabinet secretary anyway – Becerra is on a hypothetical short list that includes former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, among others.

Opinion

COMMENTARY: Why I left the Republican Party

by Luis Alvarado January 10, 2023January 10, 2023

As a disciple of Reaganomics and a proponent for a strong nation, the choice was clear: I registered as a Republican. Through the years I never imagined the journey that decision would bear in my life. As a student of political science at a very liberal university, I was accosted by fellow students and even faculty. As a Youth Advisory Council representative to Mayor Tom Bradley, I was an anomaly as a Latino Republican. Many chucked in confusion. But I have left the Republican Party for becoming a rudderless entity that has been overtaken by nativists and coincidentally can’t even agree on who will be speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Affordable and Secure Food Act was approved by a wide margin earlier this year in the U.S. House of Representatives (called the Farm Workforce Modernization Act in the lower House), only to be deadlocked in the upper chamber.

Opinion

COMMENTARY: Congress wraps with no action on farm workers or DACA

by Patricia Guadalupe January 3, 2023January 3, 2023

The massive $1.7 trillion – trillion with a T – bill of which the farmworkers and DREAMers legislation would have been a part of includes a funding boost for the U.S. Border Patrol, which is in line to hire several hundred new agents for what the agency says is an expected influx at the U.S.-Mexico border if Title 42 ends.

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JOSE BARRERA, LULAC state director discusses moving past City Hall scandal

by Jasmine Contreras December 13, 2022December 13, 2022

CALÓ NEWS interviewed Barrera to further discuss how Latino and other LA communities who were harmed by the scandal can heal, what is crucial for the LA City Council to focus on that can help Latinos, whether Latinos have appropriate representation on the LA City Council and more.

Embattled L.A. City Council member Kevin de Leon was not in attendance in person for the meeting.

Opinion

COMMENTARY: It’s past time for Kevin de León to resign

by Alan B. Rivera December 13, 2022March 12, 2023

It’s past time that Kevin de León resign. Regardless of who is at fault in this shameful altercation witnessed by children, his presence on the City Council is a continued distraction and offense.

Opinion

EDITORIAL: Bass and Richardson make history

by CALÓ NEWS Editorial Board November 22, 2022March 12, 2023

Karen Bass is the first woman and Black woman elected mayor of the city of Los Angeles. Rex Richardson is the first Black person elected mayor of Long Beach. Three U.S. cities with the largest numbers of Latino residents, New York, Los Angeles, Houston – all have Black Mayors. Besides Bass in LA, Eric Adams is mayor of New York and Sylvester Turner is mayor of Houston.