DREAM Act Passes House

The DREAM Act passed the House late Wednesday night. Hallelujah! See our previous DREAM Act coverage here. The bill now moves onto the Senate, as The Hill reports: “House lawmakers […]

They’re not, and that’s neither here nor there. What matters is why we ask the question. Salma Hayek admits, in an article published in the Tucson Sentinel, that at a […]

Tons of Latinos are fixin’ to hit voting age. It’s true. The Census said so. Victor Landa wrote earlier today about Census estimates on Latinos, but another recent report noted […]

One of the last conversations I had with Carlos was about my guelito, who died four years ago. “You know,” I told Carlos on the balcony of his condo, “I […]

The DREAM Act is set for an important vote in the US Senate today. Majority leader Harry Ried plans to bring up the act for a cloture vote, but he […]

Great piece by US Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, published in, of all places, Foxnews.com on December 6th. Here it is, word for word: If you take a serious look at […]

We’ve all been waiting for this, so consider the news the first wave,  indicator, yardstick… The US Census has released its first estimate of nation’s population, based on last spring’s […]

¡Mira que bien! (read that with dripping irony) This has been churning around the Internet for a few days but I paid it no mind. It’s so ridiculous, how could […]

We at NewsTaco have been struck hard by the loss of our friend and colleague Carlos Guerra this week, but so have many people. I wrote about my memories of […]

By Stace Medellín Most of my memories of Carlos Guerra come from reading articles he had written as a freelancer for various publications. One read and I was hooked. When […]