News Taco To Go: Kool-Aid, Wine, Haiti & Twitter

News Taco To Go: Kool-Aid, Wine, Haiti & Twitter

Mary Mata June 2, 2011

¿Tuiteas? 19% Of Latinos Online Use Twitter The Trouble With Haiti’s Refugee Camps, Over A Year Later Latinos Key To Growth For Kool-Aid, Wine Industry

Latinos Key To Growth For Kool-Aid, Wine Industry

Mary Mata June 1, 2011

Latinos and their $1 trillion-plus buying power are making companies across the U.S. salviate, we’ve reported it before, and now Kraft’s Kool-Aid brand and winemakers are getting in the mix. […]

Villaraigosa, Others Skip $15 Million In Parking Tickets

Mary Mata

[Editor’s Note: The following is an op-ed from the Mexican American Political Association and is shared with permission.] By Magdalena Barela I’m not an aspirant of a Gold Card, and I […]

AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Worries Latino Media Groups

Mary Mata

[Editor’s Note: The following is a press release from the National Hispanic Media Coalition] Today, the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) and the National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP), filed […]

New Georgia Immigration Laws May Affect Your Pocketbook

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There’s a direct link between what’s happening with  the latest SB1070-type laws in Georgia and your trip to the supermarket. It has to do wiht the availability of labor and […]

Latino Businesses Thrive In Nashville, Tennessee

Mary Mata May 31, 2011

Tennessee’s Latino population grew more than 134% in the past 10 years, according to the Census, and The Tennessean reports that this has created a unique environment that is particularly friendly to Latino […]

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Talks Benefits Of Immigration

Mary Mata May 30, 2011

U.S. Secretary of Labor, Hilda L. Solis is accustomed to highlighting issues that, for others, are easily forgotten. At a town hall at East Los Angeles College Friday, Solis participated […]

A 1950s Fashion Flashback

Mary Mata May 26, 2011

Think back to the height of the Golden Age, the birth of the Cuban revolution, the premiere of Lucille Ball’s television acting career. That’s right! Think back to the fifties. […]

Will Latinos Drink Beer, Or Cerveza?

Mary Mata May 23, 2011

Latino beer drinkers in the U.S. still haven’t placed their loyalties when it comes to beer brands, according to a new report from AdAge. The report notes that, while Latinos […]

Ready To See More Latinos On TV?

Mary Mata May 18, 2011

Television networks and cable channels are seeing green and there’s only one thing they can do — get more Latinos on TV. As Latinos continue to grow as a population, […]