NewsTaco To Go: Mortgages, Airplanes, Egypt, GOP And Budget Cuts

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak spoke yesterday but didn’t step down, even bigger protests have resulted. Bigger and deeper budget cuts are coming, courtesy of the Tea Party-fueled GOP. The Obama […]

For the people of Eagle Pass, Texas, a small border town of about 27,000, trying to preserve their health and way of life has proven to be difficult. Especially because […]

How Texas conservatives are manipulating a budget crisis of their own creation. by Forrest Wilder from The Texas Observer What’s Kerr so excited about? Oh, just Texas’ little old $27-billion […]

Arizona wants to undo the Constitution, there’s a labor shortage of skilled workers, childhood obesity is bad, a U.S. teen was killed in Mexico, the government is cutting programs and […]

Latinos are a population that can really, really benefit from health care reform because, as a group, they have among lowest rates of health insurance coverage of any ethnic group. […]

The Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl, beating the Pittsburg Steelers 31-25. President Barack Obama is trying to increase job growth and help mend the economy by reaching out […]

White House numbers put the unemployment rate in January at 9%, which is still super high, but a decline over the last two months. Only 36,000 jobs were added last […]

A curious paradox has emerged in the U.S. as the recession trudges on: Although there are lots of unemployed, they cannot fill the jobs that are opening up in different […]

I’m not sure what this indicates, and I’m open to suggestions form all of you out there in NewsTacolandia. The fact is, as reported by the Washington Post, that the […]

Recently I was chatting with my great aunt, who grew up in the early part of the 20th century in Monterrey, Mexico. We were talking about a friend of hers […]