By: Mario Conde, Reporter The Imperial County Board of Supervisors appointed Luis Plancarte as the new chairman of the board at their regular meeting held Jan. 7. The beginning of the year always marks a change in leadership for the Board of Supervisors as a new person becomes the face …
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Business and industrial Chambers join against new taxes imposed in Baja California
By: Fidel Gastelum, Reporter Representatives of the different business chambers of Mexicali and Baja California, offered a press conference yesterday morning at the Canacintra Mexicali, to express their opposition regarding the new Baja California Income Law, in which four new taxes were passed, including payroll taxes, gasoline groups taxes, lodging …
Read More »Walt Disney, a dreamer whose career continues to inspire in 2020
By: Ellie Burgueño There are people whose history transcends after death, perhaps this happens when someone was able to make their dreams come true or fulfill their purpose in life because that’s when everything someone does is done with passion and faith, necessary elements to be able to leave an …
Read More »Confidential and Industrial Secret Information
By: Jaime Israel Davila Gomez, Attorney In Mexico, companies can generate or obtain all kinds of information, as a result of the activities they develop. Some of this information may have the character of confidential or sensitive, involving or risks for companies in case of obtaining general knowledge or competitive …
Read More »A Positive Vision for the Border Wall
-Editorial The border barrier between Mexico and the U.S. means the division of two countries but also the opportunity to make something fun out of it for all. Architect Ronald Rael took pink teeter-totters to the U.S.-Mexico border fence in New Mexico, wanting people on both sides of the wall …
Read More »Journalists’ Day is celebrated today in Mexico
-Editorial Today, Journalists’ Day is celebrated in Mexico, a holiday in honor of Manuel Caballero, considered the father of journalism and who died this same day in 1926 in Mexico City. Mexican journalist and writer, Caballero introduced the sensationalist sense to the news of the Porfiriato, a period during which …
Read More »Machine learning meets quantum physics
By: Sankar Das Sarma, physics faculty member at the University of Maryland Machine learning is a field of computer science that seeks to build computers capable of discovering meaningful information and making predictions about data. It is the core of artificial intelligence (AI) and has powered many aspects of modern …
Read More »U.S. Strike Kills Key Iranian Military Leader in Baghdad
-Editorial At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. According to the Pentagon, General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack …
Read More »Impeachment
Part I. Estados Unidos de América By: Terry Ahtziry Cardenas Banda, attorney and law professor. The United States is experiencing a political era of great controversies, from the executive orders of the President in controversial issues such as the proposal for the construction of the wall, as well as the …
Read More »New California Law Being Challenged by Independent Contractors
-Editorial A new California law that will change how independent contractors will work is causing a debate that will most likely end in the higher courts. As of January 1, Assembly Bill 5 became law that will require companies that hire independent contractors to reclassify them as employees, with a …
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