Although a time of giving thanks has been held and recognized by individual colonies and states throughout America since the 1600’s, it was President Abraham Lincoln who declared an official Thanksgiving Day. This thoughtful and gentle man chose to declare that we should take time to celebrate and to give […]
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Vote! It may be a long line. It may be a wet line. It may be a cold line. But, we owe it to ourselves, our children and our country to exercise the power given to us by the constitution. Vote! It is about balancing power and controlling those who […]
On Friday, June 15, 2012, President Obama announced a two year reprieve from deportation for young adults who were brought to the United States as children. Annually, 3 million students graduate from US high schools; 65,000 are undocumented. I was one of them. I was born in Honduras and brought […]
Over the past four years, El Sol, Jupiter’s Neighborhood Resource Center has been a part of the community through Artfest. The money raised from this event benefits the Hispanic Community of The Sun and with those proceeds, the Sun can continue their community work they have been successfully doing for […]
I am proud and privileged that I can count myself a citizen of the world’s “melting pot” – the United States of America. I am equally proud that I have a rich and varied heritage founded in the Latin culture. Both my mother and my father came to this country […]
What are the sources for the highest amount of identity theft? Is identity theft really as a big a problem as publicized? Doesn’t identity theft happen to other people? I found interesting and startling information at “McAfee Identity Protection” – a counter identity theft company. We hear about people’s identities […]
You lost your job. You worry you will lose your house. You receive the letter: Dear Homeowner, you have failed to pay your mortgage payments. We do not care why. We are foreclosing on your home. Is it fair for a mortgage company to foreclose a mortgage because the homeowner […]
I am what you would call the elder of our firm; although I prefer to think of myself as the excitable sage. In either event, I have reached that level of “experience” at which my partners allow a certain amount of my opinion to be disseminated to pretty much anyone […]