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NewsTaco April 26, 2012

Thursday, April 26, 2012 Latino Evangelicals Rally Voters Around Complex Election 2012 Agenda (Huffington Post): Both left- and right-leaning Latino evangelical groups are staging multi-city voter registration and mobilization drives over […]

Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the day they abandoned me

Mary Mata April 25, 2012

By Oscar Barajas When I was about eight years old, my cousin changed my life. He introduced me to a telephone line that would connect me to Santa Claus. Santa […]

Net-Zero, A New U.S. Reality

NewsTaco April 24, 2012

By Victor Landa Picture this: It’s mid to late February on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. On the U.S. side, in Laredo, Texas, they’re celebrating George Washington’s birthday with a […]

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Tuesday April 24, 2012 Democrats have work to do to encourage voter turnout (Austin American-Statesman): “Everyone talks about the ‘sleeping giant of the Latino community,’ but the sleeping giant will not wake […]

A Tale Of Foreclosure, Eviction And Community Action

Mary Mata April 23, 2012

By Communities United Against Foreclosure and Eviction Last year, Melecio and Beatriz Delgado applied for a loan modification for their modest single-family house on the northwest side of Chicago. At […]

The Emergence Of The Political Eva Longoria

Mary Mata

By Tony Castro, Voxxi When Eva Longoria was unveiled as one of co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, the reaction among the national press corps was the usual rolling of the […]

SB1070 Before Supreme Court Wednesday: What You Need To Know

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Two years worth of posturing and protesting, testing and taunting, about immigration and states rights will come to a head this Wednesday when both sides of Arizona’s controversial SB1070 argue […]

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Mary Mata

Monday, April 23, 2012 Justices to Rule on Role of the States in Immigration (New York Times): The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday on the bitterly disputed immigration enforcement law that was passed […]

Stretching Gasoline Dollars on Weekend Errands

Mary Mata April 20, 2012

By Mary Anne Meyers, Public News Service With gasoline prices nearing $4 a gallon, it can pay Missouri drivers to plan ahead for those weekend errands. Jerry Medinger, who manages […]

9 Latinos In TIME Magazine´s 100 Most Influential

Mary Mata

By Paloma Corredor, Voxxi  TIME Magazine has released its annual list of the100 most influential people, and for the first time, the majority of the list is non-white. And nine of the top 100 are […]