A Crazy Time for Unemployment, Nuance and Third Person Politics

How bad has the recession been for Latinos? It’s been bad, we know. While unemployment hovers around 9.6 percent for the nation, the Latino unemployment rate is 12.4 percent. But […]

The car my brother and I shared in middle school didn’t go in reverse. True story, we had a car in middle school. But that was in a time and […]

Many years ago (decades actually) I was a young cadet in the Texas Maritime academy. During the summer (of ’79 and ’80) the 250 or so cadets at the academy […]

A couple of weekends ago I walked through a retail store with my 90 year old dad in tow. We had gone to find something or other and ended up […]

Don’t despair, the momentum started by Arizona’s SB1070 has just begun.  ImmmigrationImpact.com alerts us to a bill drafted by a state representative from Miami, and former police officer, that takes […]

The joke was that Latinos for Reform produced a “Don’t Vote” television ad (in English andSpanish) because they wanted to claim responsibility for all the Hispanic voters that don’t go […]

One of the original ideas behind the NewsTaco is the ability to keep track of national and international news and trends relating to the Latino community. The fact is that […]

If politics is a contact sport for those involved on the field, then it must be a spectator sport for the rest of us on the bleachers. The best way […]

This can’t be good. A relatively small item in the Denverpost.com seems ominous to me. There are threats of violence against Latino High School students, and the police are taking […]

Apart from a count of the general population that leads to targeted federal spending and the swap meet that ensues at redistricting time, the US Census can give us some […]