How Sonia Sotomayor Saved Baseball: A Brief History of the 1994 Players Strike
Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:57:07 -0700

Baseball is in a sorry state these days, and I'm not just saying this because I root for the perennial bottom-dwellers of the AL East, the Baltimore Orioles. Overall, attendance is down. Part of it is weather-related , with a slew of early-season ...

Gloria Steinem wants you to boycott NBC's "Playboy Club"
Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:54:44 -0700

As he looks at everything from the "wise Latina" backlash during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to "The American Directory of Certified Uncle Toms," a controversial book arguing that WEB Du Bois wasn't sufficiently ...

Free Summer Theater Festival at Nissequogue River State Park Continues
Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:34:32 -0700

Bring a blanket or chair and sit back and relax while watching Airmid Theatre's live performance of A Little Betrayal Among Friends by Caridad Svich, freely adapted and translated from Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor's comedy, La Traicion en la Amistad. ...

The Obama Critics Who Needlessly Discredit Themselves
Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:12:31 -0700

Are Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor leftist radicals? How would the Weather Underground feel about the extension of the patriot act and the Bush tax cuts? Were the radical leftists in the 1960s yearning to empower the FBI and pushing the invocation of ...

The Republican party's Latino appeal
Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:30:19 -0700

That means Obama will have to do more than point to his appointment of Sonia Sotomayor as the first Latina supreme court judge, or his presidential trip to Puerto Rico (the first by an American president since JFK), if he expects to keep Latino voters ...

Rubber workers turn up heat on 20-month strike
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:18:47 -0700

The sun blazes overhead as Gustavo Sotomayor and his longtime co-workers walk the picket line at Infinity Rubber, a west Toronto plant at the heart of one of the longest strikes in the city's history. Now in its 20th month, the labour dispute has taken ...

Today In History
Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:43:55 -0700

In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor [[ soh-toh-my-YORE ]] was sworn-in as the 111th justice of the US Supreme Court. Sotomayor became the first Hispanic and only the third woman to ever serve on the nation's highest court. President Obama nominated the ...

Lovelorn Billionairess, 85, Gives Away Fortune To Marry Pauper
Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:45:37 -0700

The father of her children was Luis Martinez de Irujo, son of the Duke of Sotomayor , who died in 1972. In 1978 she married former Jesuit priest, Jesus Aguirre y Ortiz de Zarate, who died in 2001. Plans of a wedding to her current love, Diez, 60, ...

Bakersfield Rebels 12U Takes 2nd Place at NSA Western Nationals
Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:09:46 -0700

Players are Jade Martinez, Gracie Sotomayor , Brittney Howard, Naizemarie Ubay, Mariah Godde, Cheyenne Hornbuckle, Olivia Ortlieb, Sammi Lay, Aymee Broome and Genesis Delgado Coached by Marlece Hornbuckle, Shawn Hornbuckle, Jeff Lay, and Brent Ortlieb. ...

Criticism and Confusion
Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:04:57 -0700

You can say what you want: President Obama addressed his Latino constituency with appointing Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court; he addressed his gay and lesbian constituency with the repeal of DADT; and he addressed his Wall Street constituency via ...

Late-night jokes: Obama bus tour takes a detour
Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:24:14 -0700

Conan: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be a "Sesame Street" guest this year. The first time a justice has been on the show since Justice Breyer ruled that Bert & Ernie could be called roommates. Leno: A new report out says that a growing ...

Supreme Court Decision Could Have Big Impact on Consumer Rights
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:40:50 -0700

As pointed out in the dissent by Justice Sotomayor , many name brand manufacturers simply quit making the drug after the generics are introduced onto the market. In 2009, seventy-five percent of all filled prescriptions were generic medications. ...

What Does It Mean When Rick Perry Threatens to Get Ugly in Texas?
Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:48:55 -0700

Perry hits Sotomayor's mailbox with baseball bat HD after a week, Perry tells Geithner's kids their parents are getting divorced HD after a month maybe but not Perry threatens Bernanke HD after four days. And yet: I'll take a pass at the ...

APNews Break: Firefighters get damages in bias case
Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:54:54 -0700

The case became an issue in confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor , who ruled against the white firefighters when she served on a federal appeals court before becoming the nation's first Hispanic on the high court. ...

Frank O. Sotomayor
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:15:20 -0700

Beneath that big mustache of his, that big smile was a big heart. Sotomayor , a former Times editor, is an adjunct faculty member at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. He previously wrote about Ruben Salazar for LA Observed.

Photography Exhibit Spotlighting Latinos To Open At Brooklyn Museum
Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:54:14 -0700

The subjects range from Gloria Estefan to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor . "I think most Americans don't really know the wealth of accomplishment. So you think, 'oh, a Supreme Court justice,' or maybe an Eva Longoria, but you don't know about ...

Ralph Macchio Retires, Industry Reacts
Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:06:48 -0700

Chris Sotomayor : I'm in shock that Ralph Macchio is retiring. I'll never forget the first time I met him (not fit for twitter). Stephen Wacker: To all the writers and artists lamenting the retirement of @Marvel editor Ralph Macchio, keep in mind he ...

Driving the Conversation:
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:32:16 -0700

... and UN Ambassador Susan Rice to naming US Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to working closely with women in Congress such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to nominating Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz ...

The Threat Of Liberal Judicial Activism Reaches New Heights
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:14:58 -0700

Nevertheless, on July 7, in a case largely ignored by the media, dissenting Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan carried judicial activism to new heights by advocating a stay of execution on the basis of an imaginary law. ...

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Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:36:48 -0700

At the museum the Latino List will delve into the individual and diverse stories of personalities like the actresses Eva Longoria and America Ferrera as well as other kinds of public figures like Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court and ...