NewsTaco To Go: Cure For Baldness, Middle East, Immigration, Babies And Gays

NewsTaco To Go: Cure For Baldness, Middle East, Immigration, Babies And Gays

Mary Mata February 17, 2011

Scientists may have accidentally discovered the cure for baldness, at least baldness due to stress. The researchers were studying stress-related stomach problems by injecting mice with a stress-blocking compound, which had the […]

Latino Diaspora Merits Reporting

NewsTaco February 16, 2011

I’m not sure if anybody out in the Inter-webs is reporting on the US Latino diaspora as such – a diaspora. I find it fascinating. For reasons having to do […]

New AZ Bill Requires Hospitals to Check Citizenship

NewsTaco February 15, 2011

Because we promised to keep an eye on it for you, here’s a quick look at the latest immigration nonsense coming from Arizona. The Arizona Republic reports: The Senate Judiciary […]

Colorado Lawmaker Kills His Own AZ-type Immigration Bill

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Here’s a new twist in the plot where immigration meets reform and the courts. In Colorado an Arizona-type immigration bill was scuttled because the bill’s sponsor figured it would cost […]

Breaking News: Forde Guilty in Brisenia Flores Death

NewsTaco February 14, 2011

We’ve been following this story since the beginning of the trial; last week the jury went home with out returning a verdict. So today we were monitoring the webs for […]

Immigration has Become Top Priority Among Polled Latinos

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It didn’t used to be that way. In fact, less than five years ago immigration was regarded as the fifth, maybe sixth, most important issue for Latinos behind education, health, […]

Utah Group Wants Mexico to Halt Mormon Visas

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They figure it’s the best way to get the attention of the State of Utah. I’ll reserve any comment because I know little about the Mormons except for what I […]

Latinos Are Georgia Politico’s “Favorite” Aliens

Mary Mata February 10, 2011

Sigh. Big sigh. Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey, a Republican, recently visited the border on a fact-finding mission (to make sure it’s there, or what?) with other politicos to check out […]

Obama’s DREAM Act Support Too Little, Too Late

Mary Mata February 9, 2011

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 […]

South Carolina Politico: Blacks, Whites Don’t Work Like Latinos

Mary Mata

Not sure if this is a back-handed comment, just plain racist or simply an honest opinion. South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford, D-Charleston, said that Latino immigrants were necessary because […]