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In Texas, Behold The White-Power Legislature
By Bob Moser BACK IN FEBRUARY, AT A RALLY PROTESTING ANTI-IMMIGRANT legislation, state Rep. Lon Burnam raised some eyebrows by letting loose with the “R” word. “You are here,” he […]
Why Is It Ok To Be Gay As Long As We Don’t Talk About It?
There are lots of reasons why I simply don’t “get” homophobia. I’m not going to go into all of them, but as a Latina, one aspect of homophobia I’ve never […]
Latinos In The U.S. Search For Loved Ones In Mexican Mass Grave
We wrote previously about the mass grave discovered recently in Northern Mexico, but what one reporter from the Fronteras: Changing America Desk News found was that people in the United States who […]
How Will a Federal Government Shutdown Affect You?
Whether the federal government shuts down or not is yet to be seen. The hard and fast deadline for a negotiated agreement on the federal budget is midnight, tonight. In the mean […]
Diabetes Doesn’t Have To Be A Death Sentence
We all know someone who has diabetes, but we may not all understand exactly what this disease does to the body. Diabetes is an incurable, but treatable disease where the […]
The Problem With Latin America’s Aging Population
[Editor’s Note: The following was published by The World Bank] Report advises Latin American countries to prepare for a ‘greying revolution’; rapid aging no longer a rich country phenomenon. Region’s […]
Effects Of The Proposed Federal Budget Cuts On Latinos
[Editor’s Note: The Latino Print Network recently sent out an email newsletter detailing the effects of the 2011 proposed federal budget cuts on Latinos, we reproduce that information here.] Cuts […]
Translated Drug Labels Are Often Wrong
This hits really close to home. I have a 90 year old father who hasn’t been feeling well these past few days. The doctor says he caught a virus and […]
New Hampshire GOP: College Kids Shouldn’t Vote Because They’re Idealistic
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 […]
The Barbara Jordan Cure
by Bob Moser from the Texas Observer, where this story was first published. I was 12 when I fell for Ronald Reagan. It was the spring of 1976, when the […]