NewsTaco Roundup: March 18 – 24, 2012

NewsTaco Roundup: March 18 – 24, 2012

Mary Mata March 24, 2012

We had a great variety of cool stories for you this week on NewsTaco. My top pick was a piece examining the different ways we can get more Latinos to […]

NewsTaco Roundup: Feb. 26 – March 3, 2012

Mary Mata March 2, 2012

An anti-Latino business, Eva Longoria, Selena, use of the word “undocumented,” the Alamo, Alabama’s immigration law, Mitt Romney, Luis Gutierrez and more made our list of the top stories on […]

NewsTaco Roundup: February 13 – 19, 2012

Mary Mata February 19, 2012

We had a great mix of stories this week. There were a pair of Latino professors who were awarded the National Humanities Medal, tips for Latina teens, chicken tortilla soup, […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Jan. 29 – Feb. 4, 2012

Mary Mata February 4, 2012

Self-deportation, innovative technologists, DREAMers, banned books, Chileans, genius Latino teenagers and Pablo Neruda are included on our list of stories in this week’s roundup. Check out the stories below, which […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Jan. 1-8, 2012

Mary Mata January 8, 2012

¡Hey there and feliz año! Thanks for joining us for another action-packed week here at NewsTaco. My top pick this week talks about the similarities between redistricting and a telenovela […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Dec. 11-18, 2011

Mary Mata December 18, 2011

Even as we wind down the year for the holidays, some pretty exciting stuff went down. The Iraq War ended — huge deal — and we found out that most […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Dec. 3-10, 2011

Mary Mata December 10, 2011

There’s one piece of news not in this roundup — that the Supreme Court has blocked Texas’ redistricting maps, read that here. Otherwise, my top pick was the announcement of […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Nov. 13 – 19, 2011

Mary Mata November 19, 2011

Hey NewsTaco readers, just wanted to give you the head’s up on some great stories we had this week. Everything from great pastries to great tragedies made it to our […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Nov. 6 – 12, 2011

Mary Mata November 12, 2011

Thanks for joining us for another week of NewsTaco news. We had some great stuff for you this week, including a big blow to the sponsor of SB 1070, the […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Oct. 31 – Nov. 5, 2011

Mary Mata November 5, 2011

It was a good week for light news at NewsTaco, as my top pick is a humorous video by the actor Michael Peña extolling the virtues of “putting a mustache […]