Mary Sanchez

1 week ago | tribunecontentagency.com | Mary Sanchez

How about a round of “Who said it?” – “We have been unable to crack down on the multitude of tax-exempt foundations that feed left-wing political causes.” – “We have been unable to obtain information in the possession of the IRS regarding our political enemies.” – “Don’t know what the law says, but clearly registering Black teenagers and Mexican-American teenagers is not an enterprise that is going to be advantageous in November; and it should not be done with either tax-exempt or corporate...

3 weeks ago | tribunecontentagency.com | Mary Sanchez

The brief life of murdered Tejano star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez splashed recently across newsfeeds. Her death in 1995, at 23 years of age, was primarily noted for a long-awaited step in criminal justice. Her convicted murderer, Yolanda Saldivar, went up for parole for the first time, and was quickly denied. Thirty years had passed since Saldivar was given a life sentence for shooting Quintanilla-Pérez in the back, leaving the singer bleeding to death in a Corpus Christi motel lobby.

1 month ago | tribunecontentagency.com | Mary Sanchez

Here’s a business incompetency illustrated – a lesson by President Donald Trump, the nation’s CEO. Lay off 40% of a workforce, while adding new responsibilities onto the remaining employees. Make sure the new work is outside the skill sets of those workers, while also gutting the teams that could have helped with the new, steep learning curve. All of this transpired on the second day after Trump signed the executive order to dismantle the Department of Education.

1 month ago | tribunecontentagency.com | Mary Sanchez

The prayerful poem of Martin Niemöller has been dramatically performed and endlessly recited. Most people know the beginning lines. Schoolchildren study its cautionary message, usually when they’re learning about the Holocaust. It’s a rhetorical challenge, a chance to weigh the human costs when people choose to remain comfortable while others suffer. “First they came for the Communists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Communist,” the repetitive lines begin.

1 month ago | tribunecontentagency.com | Mary Sanchez

President Donald Trump could give a class – a seminar on how to make nativism, bias, and ignorance socially acceptable, fashionable even. He’d deliver the lecture in English. English, Trump just decreed, is now the official language of the United States. This, like so much of the Trumpian landscape, is an ill-advised loyalty test of false patriotism. Fluency in English is not a peak into one’s character. Learning a new language, especially as an adult, takes time.