Partisan Puerto Rico?
Statehood for Puerto Rico has been championed by the national Republican Party and by many Republican elected leaders, including Presidents Ford, Reagan, George H.W. Bush… Read More »Partisan Puerto Rico?
Statehood for Puerto Rico has been championed by the national Republican Party and by many Republican elected leaders, including Presidents Ford, Reagan, George H.W. Bush… Read More »Partisan Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico is seeing an exodus: The territory’s population has been decreasing by about 100 every day for the past few years, according to U.S.… Read More »Is Puerto Rico’s Population Drop Really a ‘Brain Drain’?
Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla (‘Commonwealth’ party) has been taking pains since Wednesday to claim that 55,305 jobs had been created in Puerto Rico under his… Read More »Federal Figures Show 37,921 Jobs Lost During Governor’s Administration Instead of 55,305 Gained as He Now Claims
A recent president of the ‘Commonwealth’ party used the holiday celebrating the independence of the United States Friday to reiterate his call for a plebiscite… Read More »Former ‘Commonwealth’ Party President Urges His Party to Agree to a Statehood: Yes or No Plebiscite
A lawsuit filed by two Puerto Ricans seeks to have Puerto Rico declared to be an “incorporated” territory and an end to its lesser treatment… Read More »Suit Claims Puerto Rico an Incorporated Territory; Must Be Treated Equally with States in All Programs
Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla late yesterday said that he had directed the Secretary of Justice to sue national government credit rating agency Moody’s… Read More »Governor Says He’ll Sue National Bond Analysts, Challenges Them to Run for Office in Puerto Rico
A majority of Puerto Rico’s “Commonwealth” party senators proposed a new version of the Commonwealth status proposal which has been rejected in the past by U.S. Government… Read More »Puerto Rico’s Status: What’s Best for the U.S.?
A majority of the ‘Commonwealth’ party majority of Puerto Rico’s Senate has proposed a definition of a new ‘Commonwealth’ political status (see below). The senators… Read More »Commonwealthers Propose Nation with U.S. Benefits
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means favorably reported two bills June 25th regarding tax programs that help working families. The Student… Read More »Tax Bills Would Help Puerto Ricans Less Than States