Obama’s DREAM Act Support Too Little, Too Late

After ignoring the DREAM Act for the bulk of his first term in office, and now that it’s far too late with a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, President Barack Obama […]

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 […]

[Editor’s Note: This story was written by the Texas Observer’s Michael May and published Dec. 20, 2010 and is reproduced here as part of our partnership with the magazine.] Praying […]

Nevada’s first Latino governor Brian Sandoval has got a hard road ahead of him in a state that’s been suffering from the housing crisis and economic recession particularly strong, according to a […]

A group of conservative Arizona Latinos, Somos Republicans, is behind a move to recall that state’s senate president Russell Pearce. For those not in the know, this is the kind […]

I’m starting to think that the new leadership in Congress didn’t think their plan through very well; and by extension, neither did the people who voted for them. Case in […]

So enough speculation, we’re starting to get a real sense of what the new House Republican leadership will be doing with their feet on the ground and their agenda in […]

Rahm Emanuel was out yesterday, now he’s in, but the truth is he’s only half got it. Although yesterday a Chicago appellate court ruled that Emanuel did not meet Chicago’s […]

You can put Mississippi at the head of  the line on at least one thing: that state’s seante is the first to approve an immigration law that apes Arizona’s sb […]

A bill in the Wyoming legislature that would have mimicked Arizona’s sb1070 had died a neglected death. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Pete Illoway, R-Cheyenne, went before a committee where […]