The Prospector

Supreme Court still on the fence

Christian Vasquez, Staff Reporter • July 5, 2016

The Supreme Court failed to come to a decision on United States v. Texas, which concerned President Barack Obama’s immigration expansion of the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and implementation of Deferred Actions for Parents...

President Obama calls on Congress to end tax inversions

Erick Payne, SHFWire • April 12, 2016

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on April 5 called on the Republican-controlled Congress to end tax inversions, praising new steps taken by the Treasury Department to curb the corporate practice. The best way to end this behavior is with tax reform...

Obama, doctors take steps to improve health care

Tia Rinehart, SHFWire • March 1, 2016

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is asking for a donation of something other than money: He’s wants the medical records of a million people to improve health care. It’s part of a program to create medicines and treatments for individual patients. ...

Women fill 18 percent of computer science jobs

Tia Rinehar, SHFWire • February 9, 2016

WASHINGTON – Google officials said that by 2020 there will be 1.4 million new computer science-related jobs in the U.S., but right now, there are only enough computer science graduates to fill 32 percent of those jobs. The Center for American Progress...

From the barrio to the nation’s capital

Amanda Guillen, Editor-in-Chief • January 19, 2016

WASHINGTON- Sitting at a desk at the national Head Start offices in Washington, D.C., Blanca Enriquez is 1,962 miles away from her home in El Paso, Texas. Away from her three children and seven grandchildren, her journey as the Office of Head Start director...

LGBT Catholics seek acceptance, worship outside church

Amanda Guillen, SHFWire Intern • November 10, 2015

WASHINGTON – With his fingers interlocked and his polished black dress shoe tapping on the carpet, 65-year-old retired priest Joe Hennessy took a deep breath and began to talk about his life as a member of the Catholic Church. His experience is unlike...

Republican bills would cut mass transit from transportation fund

Sean McMinn, SHFWire Intern • April 7, 2015

WASHINGTON — Just based on its name, people could be forgiven if they don’t understand what the federal Highway Trust Fund pays for. After all, in addition to highways, it also funds bridges, tunnels, carpooling and clean air programs, bicycle lanes,...

These are the 250 most traveled U.S. bridges that need ‘significant’ repairs

Sean McMinn, SHFWire Intern • April 7, 2015

WASHINGTON — It wasn’t an April Fool’s joke, The American Road and Transportation Builders Association made sure to note Wednesday before it released its list of U.S. bridges in need of repair — there really are 61,000 “structurally deficient”...

Latinos join March for Life, but also face other issues

Jose Soto, SHFWire Intern • January 27, 2015

WASHINGTON – Priscilla Trastaway and Jair Vergara, both 20, from Paterson, N.J., are a young couple who have decided that chastity is the best way to prevent difficult situations, including a possible abortion. “We decided that we were going to be...

Undocumented immigrants’ story creates film and political discussion

Jose Soto, SHFWire Intern • January 20, 2015

WASHINGTON - As a high school senior, Oscar Vazquez wasn’t allowed to enlist in the military because he couldn’t provide proof of legal residency. Instead, he entered a robotics competition in 2005 with three of his high school friends, also undocumented,...

Muslim leaders see new cartoon as further insult to Islamic faith

Joe Mussatto, SHFWire Intern • January 20, 2015

WASHINGTON – The latest edition of Charlie Hebdo has offended the leader of a U.S. Muslim advocacy organization, just a week after Islamic extremists murdered 12 employees of the magazine because of controversial depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Nihad...

Anti-abortion group confident House will pass ban on late-term abortion

Jordan Gass-Pooré, SHFWire Intern • January 20, 2015

WASHINGTON – Marjorie Dannenfelser is a self-described reluctant convert to the anti-abortion movement. Dannenfelser made it her life’s mission to end abortion after a philosophical debate when she was a Duke University undergraduate, she said at...