Stories by Issue
New America Media, News Report, Elena Shore
Editor’s Note: A federal judge on Monday blocked Obama’s executive actions on immigration from going into effect.
By Alfredo Camacho
LAMONT, Calif. — Ivan Flores, 32, was one of the first to get a driver’s license under a new California law that grants driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants.
By LEONEL MARTINEZ
On any weekend night at my east Bakersfield home, you might hear Mexican banda music blaring from a neighbor’s house, see a Latino teen swagger by wearing baggy shorts that hang down to his ankles, or watch the “elotero (corn-on-the-cob peddler)” push his cart down the sidewalk.
By Aurora Cervantes
Editor’s Note: Kern County ranks 58th among California’s 58 counties in rates of heart disease, and 57th in diabetes, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
By Alfredo Camacho
LAMONT, Calif. – Residents from Arvin to Lamont have complained for years about the lack of clean drinking water and the high levels of arsenic, a known carcinogen.