Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was one of the many Americans who showed up at Join The Impact’s nationwide protests Saturday against California Proposition 8. The proposition, which passed two weeks ago, overrode a recent state supreme court decision...

Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was in Chicago Friday to participate in Barack Obama’s Transition Economic Advisory Committee despite LA being hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. Not to mention the fact that he was an ardent Hillary...

In order to fight the terrible budget crisis currently plaguing the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took a furlough day yesterday. This means that he worked for free. All in an attempt to encourage other city employees...

It’s not often we get to feel proud of politicians. In fact some Latino Mayors can be downright embarrassing. But last week, some Texas mayors put the “can” back in Mexican when they organized to block the United States...

We’ve been scouring the web to find out what people are saying about the recent announcement that Telemundo anchor Mirthala Salinas is not returning to the network. Fortunately for us, a lot of people are still enamored enough with...

The once sensational drama that was Mayorgate is rapidly turning into an icky broth of yesterday’s news. Mirthala Salinas has officially quit her position from Telemundo after not arriving to her new job as a field reporter in Riverside,...

Hispanic Business Magazine has compiled a list of the “100 Most Influential Hispanics” for their October issue. The magazine selected the individuals based on visibility and influence. We almost fell asleep reading their underwhelming list of “Influentials” when a...

It’s been awhile since we wrote about our favorite mayoral mistress Mirthala Salinas. We hadn’t heard too much about the seductress since she was smacked with a two-month suspension by her employer Telemundo for having an affair with her...

No one understands the desire to capture page views more than us, but gossip blog Lossip is a little desperate to drum up some business on a Lazy Friday over this Mirthala Salinas-Antonio Villaraigosa thing: Telemundo 52 not may...

Inspired by our recent coverage of L.A.’s Mayorgate, an Oklahoma grad student has created a Facebook group called, “Who wouldn’t want to bang Mirthala Salinas?” It links to our post on L.A. Times reader reactions to her temporary suspension...

Now that Telemundo has handed down a decision regarding his mistress Mirthala Salinas, L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hoped to “move forward” from the scandal by calling a midday press conference today to announce some fluff news. Unfortunately for him,...

Much like we did ages ago when people began reacting to L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s dalliance with network politi-ho Mirthala Salinas, we present you with some highlights from the L.A. Times comments page related to this morning’s breaking news....

At long last, a decision has been reached regarding the professional fate of Mirthala Salinas, the Los Angeles Telemundo anchor who bedded that city’s mayor (eww!), Antonio Villaraigosa, while acting as a political correspondent for the station. From the...

After weeks of virtual silence from the left coast, a flood of developments and rumors have punctured our reclaimed virginal innocence regarding the love that dare not speak its name between Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Telemundo anchor...

It’s been a while since we heard anything on the Mirthala Salinas-Antonio Villaraigosa front. When we last checked in, she was in serious danger of losing her job. Now she’s on a forced work leave while her employers investigate...

• Even David Beckham’s unearthly hotness could not spare Mayor Villaraigosa from his city’s wrath. [Defamer] • Jars of salsa created a bomb scare. Oh Jesus. Someone’s going to write an ad based on this. [9news] • Shakira’s fiancée...

Fortunately, we’re mayor-free today. • Four hundred fifty words on the gender complexities of reggaeton. Whatever, it still sucks. [Reggeatona] • A Hispanic, U.S. Army soldier who was supposed to go to Iraq today robbed a store in his...

This week, the Los Angeles Times does a great job of updating us on the latest developments in the mayoral scandal while appearing completely above the common journalist vulture. It’s as if they learned from, well, bloggers: “Mr. Mayor,...

Over the matter of a week, you’ve fallen in love with the seductive sway of Telemundo reporter turned politi-ho Mirthala Salinas. As a result, we’ve decided to offer you a chronology of the bedfellows she’s made by letting nothing...

For today’s coverage of the ongoing sex scandal between disgraced Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Telemundo anchorwoman/Capitol Hill succubus Mirthala Salinas, the L.A. Times did some man-on-the-street reporting to validate the notion that the people who once voted Toñito in...

Turns out the woman who goes down on the mayor of Los Angeles (eww), Mirthala Salinas, is no stranger to civil servants. The press has pretty much branded her with the Scarlet A thanks to a well publicized list...

Telemundo52, the Los Angeles affiliate of the Spanish-language television network that employs news anchor Mirthala Salinas, is asking visitors on its website to weigh in on her affair with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. LA Observed reports they’ve been...

Thanks to Intersections for pointing us to this image of Telemundo52 anchor Mirthala Salinas reporting last month on the separation of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa from his wife of twenty years, Corina. Tuesday, Villaraigosa publicly announced that he is...

L.A. Mayor and MAP posterboy Antonio Villaraigosa is leaving his wife after 20 years of marriage. He now joins his two predecessors as men who came into office happily married and after a couple of years called it splitsville...