What Have You Resolved?
By Hilbert Morales, EL OBSERVADOR,       
In making your 2010 New Year's resolutions you have asked for certain issues to happen or improve. What does the publisher of El Observador want to happen or improve?
One action that our community of readers already know is that when they want to read EO, they can read our information in its entirety on our website: www.el-observador.com. Another is that our readers begin to provide the editor and publisher with feedback communications that help us guide our efforts to do the research that enables us to inform you about matters that you care about. We all need good, factual, and truthful information as a base for our personal decision making process.
As a community we need more leaders who have the wisdom to communicate, collaborate and truly be committed to service the people. Too many of our current leaders, especially elected officials, do not focus on doing what is best for the people, but rather focus on doing what is best for their re-election. An outcome is the partisan politics, which has prevented them from attending to "the business of the people." May our current leaders have the wisdom to govern all of us?
One thing we might all ask for as a 2010 New Year's resolution is to have the wisdom to know what is right from what is wrong in our lives and to have the courage to act on it. Many in our community are stoic. They silently endure what is happening in their community and its economy. May these folks begin to speak out about their concerns. And these folks need to be responsible for providing some support to those who try to speak up on their behalf. Learn to express your thoughts using a 'gentle tongue'. We must all have the faith that good things will prevail over bad things. When the news is very bad, we must have the faith that some good will come in the end. We must understand that we are all interconnected by our relationships in this community.
We all need jobs that contribute to the well being of others and ourselves. Individuals feel good when they are employed without exploitation. We must all try to perform the work we have very well because its products or services affect others.
We all need the ability to remember what is legitimately needed. We all must begin to practice forgetting those things that are best forgotten. The community must be able to trust groups, such as the local sheriffs and police, whose duty and purpose is to maintain 'law and order' in the community. The mis-use of force and the abusive events we hear about involve only a few individuals out of the 1300 police officers in the San Jose Police Department. The violence that goes on in this community cannot be dealt with effectively without the involvement of those who truthfully relate what was witnessed. The fear of being a witness seems to hinder the ability to resolve many violent events, murders, and vandalism.
A major concern deals with this community's ability to remain sensitive to what is going on in this community. It may be possible that too many of us have become insensitive as a result of tuning out all those reports on war, violence, terrorism, local murders and destruction that we witness daily. An example is that just south of the Mexican-U.S.A. border, during the past three years more than 15,000 individuals have been killed (or disappeared). Why does the American mainstream media not provide the appropriate level of news coverage? This 'drug war' may be as expensive as the wars in the Middle East. What has been going on is not good for both Mexico and the United States. Could it be that it is time to legalize the current drug traffic so as to be able to know who is involved, who profits, and most importantly, have the ability to tax its cash flow?
What 2010 New Year's resolutions have you made? One important action that this community needs is to resolve to fully participate in the Census 2010 effort because that impacts the representation in Congress, the allocation of tax revenues, and much more. Everybody who is a resident must participate in the 2010 Census.
An important resolution is to continue increased support of EL OBSERVADOR with your business advertisements, your interest and involvement because we are your community's source of useful information. We depend upon and appreciate your involvement as a stakeholder. Information technology is changing the information industry in many profound ways.�