Paul Ryan Hosts Budget Meeting With House Freedom Caucus. It Didn’t Go Well.
Paul Ryan Hosts Budget Meeting With House Freedom Caucus. It Didn’t Go Well.
*Fifty-four million Latinos in the U.S. have a stake in the outcome of this meeting. Twenty-five members of the House Freedom Caucus – the same caucus that pressed for sequestration […]
Poor, minorities carry the burden of frack waste in South Texas
*Fracking industry representatives say the study is flawed. The concern is that fracking wastewater will contaminate groundwater. And there are 217,000 minorities living within three miles of a fracking waste […]
2016 electorate will be the most diverse in U.S. history
*Lot’s of numbers in this peiece, but numbers tell stories. “There are 10.7 million more eligible voters today than there were in 2012. More than two-thirds of net growth in […]
The Winner of Last Night’s Iowa Caucus was Julián Castro
*Really? You think so? I understand the premise, but doesn’t imagining a Castro VP slot reduce him to a piece on a political chess board? The narrative becomes an “if-then” […]
Latinos are driving U.S. growth
*I like Trujillo’s point of view: that while Latinos are driving the U.S. economy, some presidential candidates’ cliché’s reduce the U.S. Latino community to a foreign threat that needs to […]
Ted Cruz, reluctant Latino trailblazer
*The fact that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have gone farther than any other Latino presidential candidate gives them the title of trailblazer. It’s the “Latino” identity part that complicates […]
In ‘No Más Bebés,’ A ‘Perfect Storm’ Led To Unwanted Sterilizations For Many Latinas
*This airs tonight on PBS. It’s worth watching, or recording. It tells the story of women who were given tubal ligations without their authorization. Yes, this happened, in Los Angeles […]
U.S. rights group leads effort to identify Mexican immigrant on life support for 16 years
*What a tough story to read. An immigrant from Mexico has been on life support for 15 years. He’s finally identified using DNA. His family was notified, but this isn’t […]
Citizen or Immigrant, Latinas May Have to Sign Up for Military Draft
*6,500 women turn 18 every day. vAS i t stands today, only men are required to register with the U.S. Selective Service. That could change now that all combat roles […]
This Latina engineer owns her feminism
*This is a very good lunch break read. Many layers of meaning and insight. VL By Krissah Thompson, The Washington Post On a cool Friday night Patricia Valoy bounded into […]
