Latina Named to President’s Faith Based Council – Is it Enough?

A topic that’s been tossed around the NewsTaco table every now and then is Latino access to the Obama White House. It usually follows rhetorical questions about presidential promises. Are […]

I think in a way this proves what many people have been saying for a long time. That obesity is directly related to poverty. Of course, this doesn’t rule out […]

There’s some heavy stuff in your NewsTaco To Go this morning — foreclosures are up, cockfighting and the PATRIOT Act — then there’s a Catholic app and relief that Toyota’s […]

When I was a kid, my father would frequently visit Reynosa and Progreso, México for his haircuts and shoe shines. When he came home he usually brought us some gifts […]

Big pharma is set to special tailor drugs for the estimated 1 in 10 people in the U.S. who suffer from alcoholism during the course of their life. There are […]

I do not pretend to understand everything, but some things are beyond my comprehension. If you recall, I happened upon these ridiculous boots at the pulga (flea market) last year […]

Prosaic as it’s come to sound, it’s true. A company in Boston called Owlchemy Labs has developed a game called “Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration” where the object is to cross […]

The New York times reports that, according to the US Census, less than half of all three year-olds in the United States are white. Hold on to your sombreros, kindergartens […]

I don’t think so, but I would ask, what’s your  measure? A blogger in the DC area was incensed recently that he saw no Latinos at an anti-Mubarak protest in […]

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 […]