Latinos in Congress: Diverse, Yet Bundled Together

Latinos in Congress: Diverse, Yet Bundled Together

NewsTaco January 11, 2011

Interesting piece in the Houston Chronicle about the balance of Latino numbers and power in the US congress. It’s thorough enough: there are more Latinos in congress today than there […]

Latino Democrats Gain Power In New York Senate

Mary Mata January 10, 2011

Latino Democrats in the New York state Senate are gaining power, according to a recent report, even as the Democrats recently lost control of that house. According to The New […]

Latinos in Congress, by the Numbers

NewsTaco

Here’s something to pack in your bag of practical trivia (although the word “trivia” tends to de-emphasize the numbers). This was posted in the sfgate.com, the San Fracisco Chronicle’s website; […]

Latinos And Bill Daley Obama’s New Chief Of Staff

Mary Mata January 6, 2011

President Barack Obama has appointed Bill Daley — former Clinton Commerce secretary and current JP Morgan’s Midwest Chair and head of corporate responsibility in Chicago — to be his new Chief […]

First Order of Business for New Congress: Exclude Puerto Rico

NewsTaco

The new Republican leaning congress got straight to work after taking their oath of office and listening to a reading of the US Constitution. Their first order of business was […]

Note to Bill Richardson: You Don’t Speak for Us

NewsTaco January 5, 2011

Don’t let the door hit you on your way out! Geez. Not a day after former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson left office, a group of disgruntled Latinos have told […]

Escándalo With New Jersey’s Latino Supreme Court Justice

Mary Mata January 4, 2011

It’s a really long story, but here goes. The escándalo began in 2007 when New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto improperly used his position to intercede in a matter […]

The Importance Of Latino Group Cohesion

Mary Mata

As we start off 2011, I find it an important opportunity to make a comment about something we all tend to take for granted:  Why do we lump together ethnicities […]

Birthright Battle Looms

NewsTaco

I think this is more than a mere battle line. This is digging the trenches, filling the sandbags and raising the flag. There’s gonna be a fight. A cadre of […]

Three Latinas in Colorado Senate, a First

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It’s a first, for Colorado at least. Three Latinas will be sworn-in as Colorado state senators on January 12th, and that, for many, is reason to celebrate. All three-Angela Giron, […]