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<p>2014 is done and we are now on to 2015 which at first glance appears to be an exciting New Year with change in the air. But, before we say hello to 2015 let’s take a look back at some of the more interesting stories that were published in La Prensa San Diego in 2014.</p>
<p>2014 was the year of Politics: Three Hispanics ran for mayor in the three largest cities in the County. School Board elections were an important part of the story. And, the politics of immigration was a yearlong highlight.</p>
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<strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p>Though little-noticed by the U.S. media, events north of the border bore striking similarities to developments in Mexico in 2014. Like in the mass protests that arose south of the Rio Bravo and then rapidly extended worldwide over the police killings and forced disappearances of the Ayotzinapa rural teachers’ college students in Guerrero, Mexico, the catalyzing issue in El Norte was police violence.</p>
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<p>Almost nobody, including some teachers, in a typical U.S. History class would guess that a Hispanic naval war hero turned down a Republican Party’s plea to lure him into becoming the party’s nominee for the presidency.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, on a vacation to Spain, in search of his roots, the reluctant hero was encouraged to remain in the motherland as public support for him to ascend to the throne swelled courtesy of the press.</p>
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<strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>It’s been years since Irma Montoya went a day without pain.</p>
<p>Soup, tea and the advice of curanderos from her homeland have helped the 53-year-old Mexican native keep her pain in check to some degree, but it’s not enough to let her get back into the workforce she was forced to leave because of her arthritis.</p>
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<strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>Anthony Wright, one of California’s leading proponents of health care access, says the window is open in the coming year for an historic expansion of health care to all of the state’s residents.</p>