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Latinos Saved Harry Reid, Nevada and the Senate
The Los Angeles Times wrote up an interesting piece about the critical boost Latino voters gave Harry Reid in this election (in case you don’t remember, Sharron Angle has a […]
Don’t Get Your Diabetes Info From Facebook
For all our diabetes-laden friends out there, a word of caution: Â Don’t trust everything you read on Facebook. A recent study shows that the vast majority of information to be […]
Latino Voter Roundup: More Voters and Influence
Hey everyone, as we all know “Latino voters” have been all the buzz during this electoral cycle. Â Just wanted to share a little bit of the info that’s out there […]
Latinos Three Times More Likely To Get HIV Than Whites
A new report shows that Latinos are three times more likely to get HIV in their lifetimes than whites, according to a CDC study. Â Specifically, 1 in 36 Latinos and […]
Whooping Cough Epidemic Affects Latinos in California
Nine of the 10 infant deaths resulting from the current whooping cough, or pertussis, epidemic in California have been Latino. More than 6,200 people have been infected in the outbreak […]
GOP Accused of Nasty Racism
The saddest thing is, I think it’s healthy to have a dialogue between political sides, but this is a bit much. Â I’ve got two items for you today. Â One is […]
LULAC Responds to ‘Don’t Vote’ Campaign
I wrote previously about how hard it is to vote anyway. Then, when people like Robert De Esposada — a highly paid Republican operative and a former highly placed party […]
Latino Fatalism May Cause Cancer Deaths
The International Journal of Behavioral Medicine is set to release a study showing that the Catholic-ish belief that things are in God’s hands may lead Latinas to believe that cancer […]
Tantos Tacos: Hate, Escándalo, Food, Tech, Mexico and Hate
This week on NewsTaco we talked about food, hate, politics, voting, tech and a little more hate. It was a long week! We started off the week talking about hate, […]
Latino teen age birth rates; new report, same story
The good news is that overall, the number of births to teen aged mothers in the US is falling. You know what comes next. The down side. Births to Latino […]