<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The first batch of political maps by California’s new Citizens Redistricting Commission is having exactly the effect that government reformers intended—shaking up the political status quo by ignoring incumbents and promising to make many statewide elections more competitive.</p>

<p><strong>La Opinión</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Latino voters are no strangers to the plight of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.</p>

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<p><strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Completing an epic journey across Mexico, the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity arrived late last week to a tumultuous welcome in Ciudad Juarez, the beleaguered border city poet and caravan organizer Javier Sicilia calls Mexico’s “epicenter of pain.”</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Pope John Paul II is not a saint, and putting him on the fast track to canonization places the Vatican’s narrow political agenda ahead of the aspirations and spiritual needs of the vast majority of Catholics. To make Karol Wojtyla a saint is to “make holy” the disastrous policies and the programs he imposed on the church for 25 years.</p>

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