Census Gives Plenty to Talk About: More to Come

Census Gives Plenty to Talk About: More to Come

NewsTaco December 22, 2010

Let’s call it the Census hangover, the day after the big party when you wake up slightly dazed…OK dazed…alright, very dazed. There is so much information attached to so many […]

GOP Doesn’t Give Latinos Real Power

Mary Mata December 20, 2010

According to a piece from the National Journal, some Latino lawmakers are taking Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to task for not giving Latinos in the Republican party any […]

“Illegal” or “Undocumented”? A Media Dilema

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Journalists love to navel-gaze. We love to hold forums about our coverage and then have discussions about the forums about our coverage. “Did we do it right?” And, when we […]

Harry Reid Still Set To Fight For Immigration Reform

Mary Mata

By Stace Medellín After leading the Senate in passing some major bills, whether you liked the bills or not, The New York Times political blog is telling us that Senate […]

The Latino Vote Prevailed in State-Wide Races

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An interesting analysis of the Latino vote in California, published by Ganett, points out that the strength of the Latino vote is in state-wide races. Erin Kelly writes: “While Republicans […]

DREAM Act Dreamers, Plan B

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To think that the Dreamers have a viable option is to misunderstand their reality. Dreamers are the students and their supporters who organized themselves across the country in support of […]

Senate DREAM Act Vote was a Watershed

NewsTaco December 18, 2010

If the outrage is maintained, if the anger takes root, then today’s DREAM Act vote in the US Senate will have consequences that the politicians in Washington have yet to […]

DREAM Act Doesn’t Pass, 55 To 41

Mary Mata

I had hoped against all hope that the DREAM Act would pass this morning, but alas, it did not. It went down in the Senate 55-41. We’d written extensively about […]

Prices Of Limes And Tomatoes On The Rise

Mary Mata December 17, 2010

I don’t know about you all, but when the waiter told me a few nights ago that limes were in short supply, I freaked out a little bit. ¿Cómo puedo […]

¿Y Donde Está Javier Bardem en la Lista?

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Tere Garza writes a very cool movie blog called Checalamovie. She’s from Monterrey, Mexico,  and is currently based in Los Angeles where she has awesome access to the premiers, stars […]