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by John DeSio
Village Voice Running Scared Blog (January 28, 2009)
The Daily News reports that newly-minted Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has hired the Mirram Group to mend fences with the Hispanic community. Too bad Mirram’s friends probably played a role in breaking those fences to begin with.
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This Daily News Blog was interesting and we wanted to share it with our readers. Our community better count, if not we make it count. What should be some of the issues that you thinmk our Latino elected officials should address with Gillibrand?
By Elizabeth Benjamin
Daily News’ The Daily Politics Blog (January 29, 2009)
After backing down on their threat to go nuclear on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in exchange for her promise to sit down and chat about immigration, Latino lawmakers have secured a date for their meeting with the new senator
On February 7, 2009 at Hostos Community College in the South Bronx at 7:00 PM, the life of recently deceased José Chegüi Torres, Former Light heavy weight champion will be celebrated. We are asking all his friends to spread the word as we have only a few days to organize the activity. Please contact Ramón J. Jimenez (917-517-1320), Julio Pabón (718-402-9310) or Ponce Laspina (646-337-6775).
We are developing the program and it is open to any suggestions. There will be a large representation from the Boxing World and many journalists who worked with José.
PLEASE ATTEND AND HELP ORGANIZE
Sponsors: Juan La Porte Boxing Gym, El Maestro, Latinos Sports and Friends of the South Bronx
Un Boricua que siempre dijo: "Si se puede"
By Sewell Chan
New York Times (January 26, 2009)
Antonio Pagan Councilman Antonio Pagán in 1997. (Photo: G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times)
Antonio Pagán, a former New York City councilman whose iconoclastic views on matters from low-income housing to AIDS often infuriated liberal activists in his Lower East Side district, and who later became the employment commissioner under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, died on Sunday morning at Beth Israel Medical Center. He was 50.