Vida En El Valle Blogs: The Latin voice of the central valley.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joined comedian and President of the California Latino Water Coalition Paul Rodríguez at the end of the four-day ‘March For Water’ at the San Luis Reservoir just west of Los Banos Friday.                                                                                                                                                                                  Gov. Schwarzenegger heard one-liners like, ‘Go to Sacramento and kick some a—!’ and ‘Don’t be a girly-man!’ from [...]

Paul Rodríguez led the thousands of marchers in the ‘March For Water’ calling on the California legislature to allocate more water for crops.  About 2,500 to 3,000 marchers want more water to flow from the San Luis Reservoir to the crops of the Central Valley.   Marilyn J. and her young classmates from Mendota Day Care [...]

  Three months ago today, I arrived at the San Jose airport, drove to Fresno, and prepared to start a new life in Central California. So in honor of this anniversary, I’ve compiled a list of things I’ve learned in my first three months in the Valley.   I’ve learned to circulate the air through [...]

I spent all of Wednesday learning about California’s current water crisis. I learned just how critical this water issue is, as I spent a couple of hours at a California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting, and spent the afternoon speaking with farmworkers who were laid off from jobs they had held for 30 [...]

I’m not sure if you watched KMPH Channel 26′s news last evening and if your mouth was left wide open with remarks made by Lloyd Carter of the California Water Impact Network. In response to reporter Ashley Ritchie’s question about the impact that the water cutoff from the Delta would have on thousands of farmworker [...]