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Hay Que Poner Atención to Protecting The Bees
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Earlier this year the Super Bowl commercial “God Made a Farmer” attracted keen attention by various Latino blogs and advocacy groups for overlooking the fact that […]
Aprendiendo in the Outdoors
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco We highlight getting to the Outdoors for a wide range of benefits, especially relating to physical and cognitive health. But a recent story by the National […]
Action on Climate Change Para Nuestra Salud
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco After President Obama’s comments on climate change during the State of the Union address, a new poll by the Natural Resources Defense Council affirmed once more […]
Why We Still Need the Voting Rights Act
By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco On February 27th the Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments in a lawsuit originating in Shelby County, Alabama as to why Section […]
Addiction in New Mexico: La Cultura Cura
By Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA The state of New Mexico has the highest rate of drug-related deaths in the nation. Hispanics and Native Americans have borne the brunt of this devastation. […]
Bilingual Babies Know their Grammar by 7 Months
By Hispanically Speaking News Babies as young as seven months can distinguish between, and begin to learn, two languages with vastly different grammatical structures, according to new research from the University of […]
Dallas Parents Upset Over Hiring of alleged Racist Principal
By Tony Castro, Voxxi A group of Latino parents in Dallas backed by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is fighting the hiring of Kamalia Cotton, a suburban elementary […]
Piensale al pescado: What fish is on your plate?
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco As Latinos we eat all kind and type of fish—at least as reflected how I grew up and based on the menus of any typical Mexican […]
Where does your agua come from?
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco If you missed it, recently there was a news story from ProPublica about Mexico drilling into a deep aquifer for drinking water. The catch, as the […]
Ojo on Ocean Acidification
By Jose Gonzalez, NewsTaco Do you recall acid rain? How about the hole in the ozone layer? There may several among us who may not remember the problem of acid […]