By: Hal Bundrick – Money Magazine Don’t forget about closing costs, property taxes and other expenses. Owning a home means you can blow out a wall to create a more spacious kitchen or paint your bedroom a flaming fuchsia — things that are certainly deposit-forfeiting and likely eviction-motivating offenses in …

By: Elias Flores Gallegos, Attorney In recent days we heard a very socially relevant case in which a girl of just 18 years old, was recruiting other young women to provide sexual services, apparently since she was a minor. This person was the intermediary between the customer and the provider …

By: Veronica Henderson, Attorney at Law (Imperial County) A young girl, age 15, is crossing the border from Mexicali to Calexico, just as she does every day during the week to attend school. She is joined by many of her friends, as it has become common to see high school …

Project management can produce a series of benefits for organizations which in turn become measurable results that positively influence a business. Before we explain this, let’s define project management so we can all be in the same mind-set. According to the Project Management Institute (www.pmi.org), the world’s leading not-for-profit professional …

By: Teddi Dineley Johnson Unless you’re shipwrecked on a deserted island, you probably enjoy a handful of close relationships. From spouses to children to friends, parents, siblings and significant others, healthy relationships build self-esteem, improve mental and emotional health and help you live a fuller life. “Relationships are — not …

By: Mario Conde The Republican and Democratic Conventions are now behind us and the two major parties now have their respective candidates campaigning towards the November elections. This is historic election for many reasons. One of them is that for the first time in American political history, a woman is …

By: Terry Ahtziry Cardenas Banda, lawyer and professor. Around the world almost every man has the right to freedom and has the opportunity to decide their own destiny. In Mexico, the Constitution guarantees the right to freedom and prohibits slavery. The United States also prohibits slavery according to the XIII …

Resident of San Diego, Jon Carder is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded five internet businesses, his first at the age of 19. In college Jon founded eHeaven.com, an online e-commerce superstore that was purchased by BabyUniverse in 2002. Jon Carder then founded Client Shop inc. a website dedicated to …

AILA.- Discussions on immigration in the United States often consist of heated outbursts based on a multitude of passionate and unreasonable positions. Whenever the topic of immigration comes up, it seems like the most extreme rhetoric, on both sides of the issue, ends up garnering the most attention.  But on July …

Garcia is the Vice President for Student Services, replacing retiring Sergio Lopez, and Enz is the new Chief Technology Officer. Both were approved by the Board of Trustees at its June 15 meeting, where it acted upon recommendations from the Hiring Screening Committee. Both positions became effective July 1. “I …