Majority of California Voters Support Health Care for the Undocumented

Majority of California Voters Support Health Care for the Undocumented

NewsTaco October 13, 2014

*More and more voters are understanding that healthcare for the undocumented is a public health issue, not a political one. VL By Anna Challet and Viji Sundaram, New America Media A […]

Digital connections for low-income Latinos

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*This is work that still needs to be done – bridging the digital divide, one family at a time. VL By Joe Rodriguez, San Jose Mercury News SUNNYVALE — Mario […]

What’s In A Name? It Could Matter If You’re Writing To Your Lawmaker

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*More and more studies and surveys are confirming what we knew all along. There are attitudes and prejudices in government, business and education that see Latinos as “other.” And those […]

Ebola fears spark backlash against Latino immigrants

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*Some GOP candidates paint Latinos (let’s face it, that’s who they’re talking about) as disease-carrying, undesirable “others.” Then they wonder why a majority of Latinos don’t vote for Republicans … […]

Texas Voter ID – A Game Changing Reversal

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*NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice estimates that the repeal of Voter ID laws in Texas and Wisconsin could help almost one million voters. Henry Flores tell us why the repeals […]

Texas, Wisconsin Voter-ID Laws Blocked by Court Actions

NewsTaco October 10, 2014

*This is very big news. A game-changer for the November mid-terms? VL By Laurel Calkins, Edvard Pettersson and Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Wisconsin and Texas, with some of the strictest […]

Huntsville Redemption

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*Wow. Just wow, with a shake of my head. VL By Emily DePrang, The Texas Observer The public relations guy walked up to Manuel Velez’s legal team, smiling. He wanted […]

Mayor Garcetti Appoints Luis J. Rodriguez as Poet Laureate of Los Angeles

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PRESS RELEASE Mayor Eric Garcetti today announced Luis J. Rodriguez, best-known for his memoir “Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.,” as Poet Laureate of the City of Los […]

The Documented Border: An Open Access Digital Archive

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*In full disclosure, I’m a border brat, so I think this is way cool. But even if I weren’t, this is important and for many reasons its time has come. […]

Inside the Mexican College Where 43 Students Vanished After a Violent Encounter With Police

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*A more complete picture is beginning to trickle out of Mexico of the protest, the students, the alleged collusion between police and organized crime, and the events that led to […]