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By Gustavo Arellano

Maricopa County Elections Department Starting Spanish Campaign Due to Election-Date Error, Which Supervisor Wilcox Calls a "Tragedy"

The Maricopa County Elections Department released some of the details this morning about the Spanish-language campaign it's putting on, in an effort to set the record straight for any Spanish-speaking voters who may have been confused by errors made by the department.On two occassions, people notice ... More >>

Helen Purcell: Accusation About Spanish Errors a "Malicious Lie," Says Office Will Publicize Election Date of Martes, 6 de Noviembre

As our colleague Stephen Lemons reported last night, Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell set the record straight about the early-ballot collections -- it is not illegal for someone to deliver your early ballot to the elections office for you.Purcell also addressed the multiple errors on county el ... More >>

Maricopa County Elections Office Had More Materials With Wrong Election Date in Spanish, So It Got a Calendar

The Maricopa County Elections Department documents showing the incorrect date for the election -- but just in Spanish -- were not the only things offering the wrong date for Spanish speakers.See also:-Helen Purcell Urged to End Confusion Over CBS 5 Early Ballot Report-Maricopa County Elections Depar ... More >>

Maricopa County Elections Department Prints Wrong Date in Spanish on a Few Documents; Voter-Suppression Theories Follow

The Maricopa County Elections Department says a small number of people received a document that listed the wrong election date -- put only in the portion of the document printed in Spanish.The estimate from the elections office is that fewer than 50 people received this document -- it's likely fewer ... More >>

Bad Mormon: Mitt Romney's Anti-Immigrant Stance Doesn't Jibe with LDS Teachings

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Russell Pearce's Olivia Cortes Scandal: Video

This is part one of a video report on the shenanigans taking place at a recent Legislative District 19 GOP meeting in Mesa, which I blogged about yesterday. My colleague, videographer Dennis Gilman, will follow up with a part two, containing even juicier clips.Can anyone now doubt that Olivia Cortes ... More >>

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Teaching Spanish to White Kids Is All the Rage -- Even in Mexican-Bashing Arizona

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Gerardo Higginson Leaving Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon's Office; Senior Aide Taking Job at Univision

Gerardo Higginson​Gerardo Higginson, a senior aide to Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, is heading back to his broadcasting roots. After about seven years of working for Gordon as a liaison to the Latino, immigrant and minority communities, and Spanish-language media, Higginson accepted a job ... More >>

ILLEGAL Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone (Chapter 6)

Andrew Thomas’ Battle Against Spanish-Language DUI Probation Has Cost Us a Half-Million Dollars. But Who's Counting?

Phoenix Public Information Director David J. Ramirez May Have Been a Victim of His Own "Friend"; Plus, Councilman Sal DiCiccio May Be Gagging the City Attorney

Andrew Thomas Denied Again in Review of Spanish-Language DUI Courts

When choosing an Andy Thomas photo, you always gotta go mustache.​Whether spoken in Spanish or English, the answer to Andy Thomas' request to have the ruling in his Spanish DUI Court lawsuit reviewed is the same: NO!On Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused Thomas' requ ... More >>

Lost in Translation: Autism Is Tough to Diagnose and Treat – and for Immigrant Families, It Can Be Impossible

Board of Supes Being Investigated by DOJ Over Failure to Provide Language Services

Andrew Thomas​ The first thing we thought upon reading the August 11 letter from Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas to the Department of Justice about his enemies, the Board of Supervisors, was this: Thomas actually cares about this issue? Sure, we get the infantile mes ... More >>

On Hollywood’s Brown-Out, Buttered Pecan Ice Cream, and Drawing Dicks on Port-A-Potties

Independent Film Series: Lake Tahoe

Wells Fargo Manager Harassed Spanish-Speaking Workers, Lawsuit Says

Two women who work in a Valley Wells Fargo bank claim their manager instructed them to stop speaking Spanish to Spanish-speaking employees, says a civil rights lawsuit filed in Superior Court. The white manager "didn't like" when they spoke Spanish and told them to speak English, even when trying to ... More >>

On Leaving Mexico, Machismo, and Picking Up the Chicas Using Mexican Slang

Labor Pains

Timely play pits aliens versus alien busters

“The Mexican American Mirror” at Phoenix Museum of History traces Phoenix’s Latin roots

The Mexican on César Chávez and gabacho grammar rules

Information Blockade

The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media — the public's right to know be damned

¡Viva Radio!

El Break proves there's more to Spanish-language radio than ranchero music

English only! Uh, except at Childress Automall...

High Fidel-Ity

Baile of Rights

A free press and inalienable booty-shaking

Mexican Busting

The plumed wonder examines the racial politics of Andy Thomas, then swoops over Sharon Stonewaller and Tent City, where Shaq and a local actor were inside the razor wire

BEST SPANISH-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER

La Voz

Molotov

Dance and Dense Denso (Surco/Universal)

Best Spanish-language News Radio Station

KNAI-FM 88.3

War of the Words

With big dollars at stake, rival newspapers duke it out to capture Valley's rapidly growing Hispanic market

Best Spanish-Language TV Station

Telemundo KDRX-TV Channel 64
602-470-0507

Best Spanish-Language Radio Station

KNAI-FM 88.3
602-269-2929

Letters 08-10-2000

Altar Ego, Power of Babel...

Critical Connection

Language isn't the only thing getting lost in the translation as Hispanic patients struggle to communicate with English-speaking ER doctors

Muzzle Puzzle

Why did City Hall keep a new police policy toward illegals quiet until after the election?

Bilingual Blues

This is not the way your grandfather learned English

A BOY OF STRUMMERRICK TREVINO PLAYS THE BARS INSTEAD OF THE OUTFIELD

ARCADIA'S CLASH OF '93WHEN DIVERSITY CONFRONTS GENTILITY, SCHOOLS ARE ON THE FRONT LINES

LOST IN THE TRANSLATIONTHE SPANISH VERSION OF THE STATE DRIVER'S MANUAL IS DOWNRIGHT LAUGHABLE