Why The EPA Is Important For Latino Families

Why The EPA Is Important For Latino Families

Mary Mata March 24, 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, has long protected the health and well-being of all Americans, particularly Latino families. Unfortunately, conservative politicians are leading efforts to attack, defund, and in some […]

Docs: Racist Arizona Teacher Letter, School Response

Mary Mata

I wanted to post the actual letter from substitute teacher Tony Hill, and then the response from the school where his alleged experiences took place, Harold W. Smith Elementary. He […]

Biased Study Shows Obese Latinas, Children Underestimate Weight

Mary Mata

A new study shows that mothers who are obese, as well as their children, underestimate their weight. Most of those who participated in the Columbia University study were Latinos and […]

3rd Grade Reading Homework: What is an Illegal Alien?

NewsTaco

This is just plain wrong. But it’s wrong in so many different ways that it’s beyond belief. A third grade public school class in Duluth, GA, was given a reading […]

More US Latinos Live in Most Polluted Areas

NewsTaco

When I was a kid I used to ride the public transportation in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico: over crowded and harried where the bus didn’t actually stop at the corner, it […]

News Taco To Go: Unemployment, Airplanes, Divorce, Postal Service and Asian Radiation

Mary Mata

Unemployment claims dropped by 5,000 last week to 382,000. Two planes landed without help from a control tower in Washington, D.C. yesterday at Reagan National Airport; it’s reported there was […]

Tall Tales And Male Bonding In East LA

Mary Mata March 23, 2011

Back in the G0od Ol’ Bad Days, my family was part of the working poor caught inside the vortex of the Reagan Revolution. My father worked as a railroad laborer […]

Lakers Host Noche Latina, Beat Suns

Mary Mata

[Editor’s Note: This post was written by LA-based writer Robert Lopez.] The NBA hosted yet another successful Noche Latina last night. Latinos filled the Staples Center to capacity as the […]

AZ Senate Racist Letter Accused of Being a Fraud

NewsTaco

The controversy over the racially tinged letter from a Tucson substitute teacher, read aloud on the floor of the Arizona state Senate, continues to grow. News Taco reported that the […]

4 Year-Old US Citizen “Trapped” in Guatemala

NewsTaco

Her name is Emily Ruiz, a US born citizen from Long Island. She was on a return trip from Guatemala where she had traveled with her grandfather. The plane she […]