Research Digital Communication Lead
William-Jose Velez Gonzalez is a Research Digital Communication Lead at Pasquines and Children's National Hospital. He focuses on regional interest and world news, with particular expertise in climate change, energy policy, and the environmental impacts of mining, as well as architecture and planning. His work has been featured in Pasquines and Children's National Hospital.
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William-Jose Velez Gonzalez's coverage largely revolves around local news, donations, US territories, journalism and historical events with a focus on Culture & Society and Government & Politics. If you are reaching out to him for potential collaboration or pitching ideas, consider offering locally relevant stories from the United States or Puerto Rico that align with his themes and topics of interest.
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By: William-Jose Velez Gonzalez
Former Senate President Donna Frett-Gregory (D) and St. Croix educator Rodney Moorehead announced their joint candidacy for governor and lieutenant governor of the United States Virgin Islands at a campaign launch on the St. Thomas waterfront in June 2026. Frett-Gregory, who picked up nomination papers in April 2026, brings more than 30 years of public […]
By: William-Jose Velez Gonzalez
Puerto Rico recovery taxes draw scrutiny from oversight board, taxpayer advocates
On August 8, 1844, missionary Archibald Wright Murray wrote that Tutuilans planned to cede Pago Pago Harbor, in what is now American Samoa, to the French in exchange for a pledge protecting Tutuila’s independence—recognizing the harbor as their greatest lure for European powers.
Puerto Rico entered August 2026 under a rationing plan that its own water utility called a last resort. Following the driest July on record for San Juan, Governor Jenniffer González-Colón (NPP, R) activated the National Guard and issued a pair of executive orders, OE-2026-35 and OE-2026-36, declaring a state of emergency across the archipelago. Under the […]
The Saipan Beacon was a daily military newspaper published by the United States Army Saipan Island command in the Northern Mariana Islands, providing military operations of the Allied campaign in the Pacific Theater and worldwide news during World War II, as seen in this August 13, 1945 issue.
By: William-Jose Velez Gonzalez
Governor Albert Bryan Jr. (D) of the United States Virgin Islands formally requested that United States Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issue a secretarial drought disaster declaration for St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, as extreme drought conditions continue to strain the territory’s agricultural community. The entire US Virgin Islands is currently classified under […]
By: William-Jose Velez Gonzalez
This is our monthly series examining the top Google Trends in the US Territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Trends data is an unbiased sample of Google search data. It’s anonymized (no one is personally identified), categorized (determining the topic for a search query), and […]
Two men wear homemade face coverings during a protest on August 20, 1978, against the politically motivated entrapment and execution of two pro-independence activists, Carlos Enrique Soto Arriví and Arnaldo Darío Rosado Torres, by the Puerto Rican Police in July of 1978.
By: William-Jose Velez Gonzalez
The United States Department of Agriculture approved Governor Albert Bryan Jr.’s (D) request for a secretarial drought disaster declaration for the US Virgin Islands, opening access to federal emergency loan assistance for farmers and agricultural producers across the territory. The USDA notified Bryan on August 20 that St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John have […]
The Tokai Maru was a Japanese passenger-cargo freighter torpedoed by the US submarine USS Snapper on August 27, 1943. It sank and came to rest leaning against the Cormoran wreck in Apra Harbor, Guam. It is the only dive site in the world where shipwrecks from two different world wars touch.
