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<p>On March 11, 2003 Staff Sergeant Eric Alva, a proud Latino and a proud Marine who led a crew of 11 in Iraq, stepped on a landmine, which caused him to lose his leg. He was the first American injured in Iraq and he was awarded the Purple Heart for his service to our country. Staff Sgt. Alva is also gay.</p>

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>California’s looming $20-billion budget hole should be fixed by slashing spending, say voters in a new multilingual Field Poll survey on state government.</p>
<p>But taxation as part of the solution found more favor among the state’s diverse populations of Asians, Latinos and African Americans. They were more likely to prefer a mix of spending cuts and taxation as a way to shrink the deficit.</p>

Our Forum for Chula Vista’s 1st Ever Elected City Attorney Candidates

When: March 8th, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Where: Civic Center Library Auditorium,
 370 ‘F’ Street, corner of 4th and ‘F’ Street

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>It was when I first stood atop the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico in 1976 that I was finally able to grasp something my parents first communicated to me when I was five years old; that my roots on this continent are not simply Mexican, but both ancient and Indigenous.</p>
<p>My red-brown face should have been enough to teach me this. However, that was not the message I received in school at the time, nor is it the message little red-brown kids receive today.</p>