Commentary

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<p>Every election brings change, and local, state and national voters will soon be going to the polls to determine what course that change will take.</p>
<p>But another significant change involving elections is about to occur, and it’s something that will also affect all the voters in our region.</p>

Commentary:
By Giovanna Robledo

Up to 15 additional days permanently obliterated from the school calendar. Further cuts to music, dance, art, and physical education programs. Larger classes and fewer teachers.Tuition increase for all California public universities.
If Prop 30 doesn’t pass, this is what every Californian student has to look forward to.

Then, with the detrimental effects its failure would have on the future of California, why is it that Californians are still very much divided on the issue?

<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Chicanocentricism</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Cowardness</span></p>
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<p>One of the advantages of growing old is that, if you look back in time, you see patterns in behavior and events. You can anticipate that the boulder that Sisyphus is pushing up the hill will roll back.</p>

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<p>This year marks the 25th annual Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, but we’re still being taken for granted by politicians of both parties.</p>
<p>Despite campaign promises four years ago, the Obama administration has done little to ensure the kind of sweeping reforms the Latino community was led to expect.</p>

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<p>Hope comes easy for me. It can rise from the words in a kindergarten girl’s poem where everybody lives happily forever and ever, or it could come out of the energy of thousands of San Diegans standing in the middle of Broadway singing “Give Peace a Chance.”</p>