Preparing for deportation: In the past fiscal year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement made almost twice as many arrests (30,396) in its fugitive operations program as it did the previous year, reports the Register. ICE also picked up more than 4,000 illegals in workplace raids - up 11 percent from 2006. The increase in raids have immigration rights advocates urging families to plan for a deportation. On the to-do list: "taking care of property records and finances and making clear plans for w
I spent my Election Night trying to find non-existent parking outside Hamburger Mary's in Long Beach. The celebration inside sure looked like fun, though, but I don't think I would have stuck around past midnight to watch all the tears turn from Obama joy to Prop 8 despair. Failing that, I instead drove up Cherry to another gay bar, Pistons, the local leather/bear hangout, to check out the scene - which really wasn't much, just a handful of guys shooting pool. I left when a couple of inebriates
Several thousand words into Mark Leibovich's 8,000-word New York Times Magazine piece titled "Who Can Possibly Govern California?" our own superstar Latina of Congress pops up briefly.Recently I called Loretta Sanchez,
the outspoken and increasingly visible Democratic congresswoman from
Orange County, who had been mentioned as a possible candidate if
[Los Angeles Mayor Antonio] Villaraigosa did not run. She described a "hypothetical" candidate who
happened to sound a lot like Loretta Sanchez."I'
Likening it to the right-leaning Red County blog picking up Matt "Jubal" Cunningham's OCBlog.net years ago, the left-leaning The Liberal OC blog announced today the "media acquisition" of Claudio Gallegos' Sunny D blog. Adding Sunny D to the stable will "pump up" coverage of Santa Ana, Costa Mesa and Latino/a issues, according to TheLiberalOC.com blogger Dan Chmielewski. Gallegos has not posted anything new on SunnyD since May as The Liberal OC awaited a "private investment" to fund the acqui
