Video Game Changes Immigrants For Snuggly Animals

Video Game Changes Immigrants For Snuggly Animals

NewsTaco April 29, 2011

Remember Smuggle Truck? It’s the video game we reported about where the object is to cross a truckload of undocumented people into, presumably, the US. The score was based on how many […]

Latino Baseball Players May Boycott All-Star Game In Arizona

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The rumors started flying at spring training. Half of the 30 Major League Baseball teams hold their spring training ritual in Arizona and this year part of that ritual included […]

Congressman’s Racist Remarks – Judge for Yourself

NewsTaco April 28, 2011

Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan is learning a valuable political lesson. He’s become the darling of the GOP with his radical ideas grounded in the Tea Party movement’s ideology. He’s got […]

Education Dept Report Puts Latino Problem In Context

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If we’re ever going to change the direction of Latino education in the US we’ve got to begin by talking from within the same frame. The biggest obstacle is the perception that […]

Obama Criticizes Georgia Immigration Bill

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The President came out swinging against state-level immigration bills at one of his many scheduled interviews. That’s not really headline worthy; he’s raised the tone and volume of his immigration […]

Free Jolito!

NewsTaco April 27, 2011

Ten minutes is all it’ll take to watch this. It was posted in William Nericcio’s blog: The Tex[t]*Mex Galleryblog. Jolito is undoubtedly so Mexican, that he’s a bean: literally. Like […]

Almost 15 Million Latinos “Sat Out” 2010 Midterm Election

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A recent article in the Washington Post says that 14.7 million Latinos sat out the 2010 midterm elections. I’m not sure that that’s entirely accurate. The numbers come from the Pew Hispanic Center, but […]

Recipe: Black Bean And Tomato Soup

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I confess I found this while looking for something else. It’s a perfect example of the serendipity of piddling-around on line. The photo got me first – made me hungry. […]

Brisenia Flores Murderer Given 65 Years In Addition to Death Penalty

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I’m not sure how this works in the practical world, but in the halls of justice (and even symbolism) it’s a big deal. Shawna Ford, 49, who was sentenced to […]

Latinos, Redistircting And the Voting Rights Act

NewsTaco April 26, 2011

We’ve all been pretty much looking west when it comes to national Latino politics. And it’s well intended, because Arizona has been taking up most of the attention with its notorious SB1070. […]