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Weekend News for your Monday Blues Horse racing fans were disappointed to learn that Triple Crown hopeful I’ll Have Another wouldn’t be racing in the Belmont Stakes over the weekend. Now the horse is retired, Mexican-born jockey Mario Gutierrez says that the owners should find a nice, quiet neighborhood to ditch the horse in. California Read More
Weekend News Now that pools and beaches are open for the summer, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging the Latino community to teach children to swim, since the USA Swimming Foundation estimates that nearly three out of four Latino kids can’t swim. I personally don’t know what to believe, though. One the one hand, Read More
Weekend News for the Monday Blues Last week, Judge Petra Jimenez Maes became the first Latina appointed to the New Mexico Supreme Court. Political observers familiar with Maes’ career as a jurist predict a drastic rise in the number of people sentenced to chancletazos. I’ll Have Another, ridden by Mexican jockey Mario Gutiérrez, won the Read More
This past Saturday, of course, was Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo is one of the most important days on the Mexican calendar, commemorating the time when friends and family get together to have a cookout, drink beer and not know why Cinco de Mayo is celebrated. President Obama held a reception at the White Read More