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UT Study: Inner-City Latino Children’s Needs are Different

NewsTaco February 15, 2011

You can put this in the trying-to-stop-a-fire-with-a-flamethrower file. The University of Texas at Austin, funded in large part by state funds, has released data of a study that argues that […]

New AZ Bill Requires Hospitals to Check Citizenship

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Colorado Lawmaker Kills His Own AZ-type Immigration Bill

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NewsTaco To Go: Budget, Middle East, Narco Sub, Prices and Germs

Mary Mata

Lots of talk about the budget, the Middle East is still all aflutter with activity, prices are going up, authorities in Colombia found a drug submarine and men’s homes are […]

Justice For Brisenia Flores Poster From Presente.org

Mary Mata February 14, 2011

Presente.org has created a poster to try to bring attention to the Brisenia Flores trial, currently being deliberated by a jury. We have written about the trial previously, and are […]

Crossing the Snake, David Montejano and the Chicano Movement

Mary Mata

by David Montejano from the Texas Observer, where this story was first published. My two major works—Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1936-1986 and its sequel, Quixote’s Soldiers: […]

White House Names San Antonio Latina to Key Post

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Special to News Taco by Ginger Hall Carnes. President Barack Obama has nominated the President of Palo Alto College, in San Antonio, Texas, to the National Security Education Board. Dr. Ana […]