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As Puerto Rico’s fiscal year comes to a close, Governor Garcia’s Padilla’s party (Popular Democratic Party, or PPD in Spanish) is facing close to an $800 million dollar deficit and no easy way to close it. The current cri...
As Puerto Rico slowly inches towards parity with other progressive states in LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex) rights, the Island’s religious right is not going silently into the night. Last week, the ...
Earlier last week, the Puerto Rico Senate approved, following an intense (and at times, hopeful on one hand, and depressing on the other) debate on S.B. 238, a bill that would outlaw employment discrimination based on sexual or...
Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner (ie. our non-voting congressman) Pedro Pierluisi proposed a bill in Congress to grant Puerto Rico the type of vote the Senate rarely gives itself: a straight Yes/No vote on Statehood. R...
Earlier this week, Matt Leichter of The AmLaw Daily published a scathing report on the (seemingly) shocking low employment rate for law graduates from the four Puerto Rico law schools. In the article, Leichter stated: “Fo...
As the budget battle looms in the Senate, a small line in President Obama’s budget gave Puerto Rico a reason to celebrate, just as it should give a reason to be cautious. Following the November 2012 plebiscite, in which 5...
he first 100 days can be the more challenging of any leadership position, a fact Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has come to realize on his first 100 days. When Gov. Garcia-Padilla took office, he swore off the ��...
On Saturday, a lone juror in a criminal case before the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico was all that stood between the Alexis Candelario Santana and the death penalty. The Federal Prosecutors wanted to get a...
On Thursday, March 21st, an already shell-shocked population (in Puerto Rico) was hit with another blow against the self-imposed prisonesque security measures many urbanizations and neighborhoods have: A District Court judge...
Earlier this month, Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla was forced to scale back some of his loftier campaign promises when he proposed austerity cuts to Puerto Rico’s Employee Retirement System (ERS). The move, as many predic...
Despite Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla’s promise during his inauguration speech that the time for sour medicine had passed (alluding to former Governor Luis Fortuño’s austerity measures), Gov. Garc...
Puerto Rico’s LGBT community received bipartisan support earlier this year when the newly elected mayor of the capital city, San Juan, ordered the municipality’s health insurance provider to include same-sex partner...
Last week, Governor Garcia Padilla received his first protest, courtesy of his administration’s support for the public-private partnership (APP in its Spanish acronym) concerning the Island’s main airport, the Luis ...
In an otherwise conservative “state” (unincorporated territory, to be precise), LGBT rights received support from members of both political parties in the Island. San Juan’s new mayor, Carmen Yulin Cruz of the...
Puerto Rico has a massive drainage problem. Close to 176,000 Boricuas left the Island from 2005 to 2010. In 2011 alone, Puerto Rico lost 76,000 citizens, of which 21,611 landed in Florida. An Island that boasted close to four m...
