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I spent some time last night with my Dad watching Texas Ranger baseball on the TV. He’s been around for more than 90 of the U.S.’s 235 years, and he’s […]

Alabama lawmakers should have thought this thing through. When Governor Robert Bentley signed that state’s new immigration law he boasted, according to a Bloomberg Buisinessweek  report,  that it was “the […]

Latino students from kindergarten through high school are, on average, two years behind their white peers. That much is proven fact. But it’s not the most distressing news. The unacceptable […]

Word is that the Arkansas state legislature will have it’s first Latino-majority district in time for the next legislative session. That’s right, Arkansas, catty-corner to Texas, stuffed between Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana: where […]

Latino voter turnout is expected to reach record numbers in 2012. That’s according to a National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) projection. The estimate is that 12.2 million Latino […]

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented worker. The story ricocheted  across the inter-webs. By now the particulars of his life story are well known. […]

The way things stand, we have failed Latino boys. Twenty percent of Latino boys in the United States drop out of high school – that’s according to the National Center […]

That summer he paid me $5 a week to help him on his route. I couldn’t have been more than 11 years old. It wasn’t my idea, nor do I […]

The big news has been the vote in the Texas state senate to approve a bill, SB 9, called the sanctuary cities bill, which allows local police officers to question […]

Let’s give this “problematic Latino Texas legislators” thing one more go-around; it’s that important. News Taco reported yesterday that a prominent Texas Tea Party activist had single-handedly determined that the […]