Por LCDO. HÉCTOR M. LÓPEZ MARCANO Especial para El STAR Cuando hablamos de estorbos públicos, no hablamos simplemente de casas abandonadas o solares en desuso. Hablamos de comunidades afectadas, de riesgos a la salud y la seguridad, de oportunidades perdidas y, sobre todo, de la responsabilidad que tiene el gobierno municipal de actuar en beneficio del interés colectivo. Un estorbo público es una propiedad privada — ya sea una estructura o un solar — que, por su estado de aba

Peter Thiel in Manhattan on Jan. 7, 2016. When Thiel said the young activist Greta Thunberg represented the spirit of the Antichrist, it “was more than just a hyperbolic slur,” Times columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “Thiel was expressing a Promethean theology, one that sanctifies technology and expansion.” (Andrew White/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG In a series of private speeches last year, Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Silicon Valley thought l

By JUDSON JONES Traditionally, this past week has been the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, the busiest time of year for storms to spin up and barrel west into North America. Instead, nearly four months into the season, and with two more to go, not a single hurricane has formed, a drought not seen in more than eight decades. While the inactivity is unusual, meteorologists said it is explainable — and they warned against confusing a quiet start with a quiet finish. Not s

FEMA headquarters in Washington. A judge on Friday ruled that a Department of Homeland Security plan to reduce staffing at the agency was unlawful. (Al Drago/The New York Times) By MACK LIEDERMAN A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it ordered that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s workforce be cut in half. In her ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California wrote that the Department of

President Donald Trump speaks during the Sept. 11 memorial service at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Friday morning, Sept. 11, 2026. At moments in his remarks, Trump justified his decision to attack Iran this year by invoking the lessons of a quarter-century ago, casting it as an extension of the war on terrorism that began in the hours after the World Trade Center towers fell. (Aaron Schwartz/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER They were brief but unmistakable allusio

U.S. District Judge Raúl Arias-Marxuach (prd.uscourts.gov) Says utility is trying to ‘sidestep’ PROMESA jurisdiction By THE STAR STAFF Power Expectations LLC has urged the U.S. District Court to reject the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) attempt to dismiss, or transfer, the company’s lawsuit over PREPA’s termination of a 400‑megawatt (MW) emergency generation contract, arguing that PREPA is mischaracterizing both the nature of the dispute and the court’s author

A dilapidated structure at the former U.S. Coast Guard pier facilities at Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba prior to demolition that is part of a project the administration of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón says will anchor the island’s emerging blue‑economy strategy. By THE STAR STAFF The central government has begun demolishing the former U.S. Coast Guard pier facilities at Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba, marking the first visible step toward developing a new Marine Business, Research & In

Puerto Rico Supreme Court Associate Justice Erick V. Kolthoff Caraballo (poderjudicial.pr) By THE STAR STAFF The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has ruled that taxpayers are not required to exhaust municipal administrative remedies before going to court when what they are contesting is a municipality’s authority to impose a tax, rather than the amount owed. The unanimous opinion, authored by Associate Justice Erick V. Kolthoff Caraballo, arose from Continental Lord Inc. v. Municipi

APUL President Gabriel Hernández with then-Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón during a March 2023 meeting. (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón) Claim asserts hundreds of eligible ex-officers were shortchanged or left out By THE STAR STAFF The United Fighting Police Officers Association (APUL by its acronym in Spanish) and a group of retired Puerto Rico police officers have filed suit in the San Juan Court of First Instance, alleging that the government has fail

By THE STAR STAFF Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez announced Sunday that he will hold a summit meeting this Thursday at 2 p.m. with seven mayors to present the first agreements on a new model for restoring street lighting in island communities. With the recently enacted legal framework, municipalities will be able to sign agreements to repair and maintain their streetlights, the House speaker noted. “On September 17 we will be p