Election 2012: Will Obama Deliver on Comprehensive Immigration Reform?

Why do I keep pushing on comprehensive immigration reform?  It’s not just because I believe our current laws are better suited for the 20th century and that the economic benefits to reform are tremendous to our strapped local budgets.  Or that it will help our global economic competitiveness if we attract engineers, scientists, and founders Read More →

More Minority Babies, More Gringo Than Ever

Leave it to celebrity news to capture a national freak out: The OMG! from Yahoo! headline: Minority Babies Now Majority: First Time in U.S. History–omg as in Oh!  My!  God! “50.4 percent of the nation’s babies born in a 12-month period that ended last July were Hispanic, black, Asian American, or other minority groups, based on Read More →

Election 2012: Same-Sex Marriage Now, Immigration Policy Later?

So here I was mindin’ my own business at a spontaneous Wednesday Happy Hour on a gorgeous, balmy perfect DC PM when my friend ripped into me over my latest Latina Magazine column. “Don’t you realize that President Obama is the President, and not Congress and doesn’t make laws, so he can’t reform the immigration system solo? Read More →

Bebé Plus Me: The Power of One

Blogger-in-Chief’s Note: This post was first published on November 3, 2011 to celebrate the 1st birthday of Baby L.  Lil’s Sis’ reflection of the challenge and wonder of watching her first and only baby grow in her womb, in the world, and always in her heart, plus the gratitude to los abuelos, especially Mami, is Read More →

Cinco de Mayo: TWLC Goes to the White House–Sheep or Wolf?

In five and a half years of living and reporting in Washington, DC I had only been to the White House twice, once to shoot a stand up for a news story and the other time as a guest of a friend from grad school who was working for the Bush Administration and offered a Read More →

Election 2012: The Politics of OBL’s Death on NPR’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin

What do YOU think about Osama bin Laden‘s death and how it is or is not being using to gain an advantage in Election 2012?  That’s what likely Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney has accused President Barack Obama of doing.  Watch the “One Chance” campaign ad air with a very prominent cameo by Bubba aka former Read More →