Obama’s Choice: Appoint a Latino Secretary of Commerce

Here’s a choice to ponder. We can either complain about how we’re not taken seriously, or we can take ourselves seriously. We’ve been talking a pretty big game about the […]

The recent news that the unemployment rate had dipped below nine percent has been both a sigh of relief and a reason to cheer, especially among those who found work. […]

The weekly unfolding of Census numbers has been fun to watch. Every day there’s more concrete evidence of the wide-spread Latino growth and presence across the US.  Places that we generally regard […]

The new Republican speaker of the House in the New Hampshire state legislature wants to take away college students’ right to vote, he says they lack life experience and “vote […]

Here’s one for the water cooler and beyond (do people still hang out at the office water cooler to chat?) A Latina in Alabama was found guilty of possessing with […]

My friend Henry Flores, who teaches political science at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, said something startling to me. The midterm election was an aberration. The result was due to low voter turn out. Not only that, […]

Someone had to have that distinction, what with all the Census numbers and head counting going on. It turns out that West Virginia is the least Latino state in the […]

A couple of activist groups based in Arizona, Phoenix to be exact, say that Desperate Housewives is the television show that best portrays Latinos. I’m assuming they mean the show […]

Three Latino police officers have been trying to move up the career ladder in Westminster, California, but they haven’t gotten very far. They’ve been passed-up repeatedly in favor of less experienced officers. The only […]

Two Spanish dichos come to mind: Dios los hace y ellos se encuentran, God creates them and they find each other; and cada loco con su tema, which kinda’ defies […]