By AJ Vicens Cronkite News Service PHOENIX – Jean Salazar is serving three years probation and must pay restitution after pleading guilty to felony theft for writing herself two extra paychecks when she worked as an office manager. Under Arizona
Photo: Dr. David Daugherty, William Hart and Joseph Garcia Morrison Institute A new Latino public policy center aimed at increasing Arizona’s understanding of Latino issues related to state public policy, workforce, education and the economy has been launched at Arizona
By Joe Henke – CronkitenewsA new report from a national Latino advocacy group projects Latino voter turnout will spike by 23 percent from their turnout in 2008 for the presidential election. The report projects that 359,000 Arizona Latinos will vote
Latino Catholics favor President Obama over Gov. Mitt Romney 73-19 percent, but not as much as religiously unaffiliated Latinos. Evangelical Protestants, however, are much closer than either, down to an 11-point spread.That’s the analysis of a recent poll by ew
In red-state Arizona, Obama raises more green than Romney for second month By Matthew Standerfer Cronkite NewsWASHINGTON – President Barack Obama out-raised Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Arizona by more than $300,000 for the second consecutive month, according to Federal
By Andrea Perez Cronkite News According to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis, 24 million Latino voters are eligible to vote in the 2012 U.S. presidential election, which is a 4 million voters increase since the 2008 elections. Cronkite news reporter
Presidential campaigns spend only about 5 percent on Spanish language advertising, even in those electorally significant states with large Hispanic populations, according to the Speak Our Language project by the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC). The study by
The Arizona Million Dollar Roundtable is asking for nominations for Arizona companies that spend at least $1 million annually with minority and woman-owned suppliers. Companies that qualify for recognition will be honored at a Nov. 16 lunch at the Renaissance
Latinos in Arizona favor both President Obama and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Carmona by a wide margin, according to a Behavior Research poll on the races. According to the poll, Mitt Romney barely leads Obama in the traditionally red state.
TEMPE, Arizona — The crowd of more than 70,000 enthusiastically filed into Sun Devil Stadium, nearly all of them wearing black. It would be what first-year Arizona State coach Todd Graham called a “black out.” Unfortunately for all who had
