I am slightly ashamed of the fact that my heart breaks at the sight of a lost dog but hardens at a street person.

It was 4:30 a.m. on October 11 when Esmeralda Hernández José stepped through the gates of Puente Grande Women’s Prison to draw a deep breath as a free woman.

When Margarita Llona arrived at Lakeside ten years ago, instead of retiring – which was her plan – she saw a big need for quality education for underprivileged kids.

For much of his life, Gil Velasco has been a spiritual seeker.

The recent passing of Hugh Hefner, the Playboy magazine founder perpetually draped with blonde, big-busted women, puts the Guadalajara Reporter in a mind to acknowledge his passing vis-a-vis a story told to us by lakeside’s own Rosemary Grayson about how she became Miss October 1964 – and the magazine’s first British playmate.

“It must be depressing to be American. You feel so helpless,” a British friend said when asked what he made of the atrocity in Las Vegas.