Revisiting History On The Anniversary Of The Battle At The Alamo

By Richard G. Santos When it comes to writing the history of the Battle at the Alamo, personal exaggerations, self role embellishments, political-social-religious-ethnic-racial factors created a larger than life and […]

When I was only five years old, the railroad company my father was working for laid him off.  His unemployment check was enough for him to survive, but it did […]

How quickly things change when good people speak up. Yesterday NewsTaco brought to light the repulsive products and racist anti-Mexican products that were being sold through CafePress. A group that […]

Anyone who’s taken high school Spanish should recognize this phrase. The entire phrase is, “Colorín, colorado, este cuenta se ha acabado.” Taken literally, the first part doesn’t mean much, but […]

There are many parallels between what’s happening today with regard to immigration in America, and what happened 80 years ago during the Great Depression. The obvious comparisons are the economic […]

America for the most part has been cringing and shaking it’s head at the state of Arizona’s absurd behavior in recent years. Aside from the few advocating that we should […]

By Wuicho Vargas Violence, I must admit, is taking over the southernmost part of Texas. Here in the Rio Grande Valley we have grown accustomed to it. Sad, but true, […]

Shirley Bunn said something several months ago that has slowly been gaining notoriety, a notoriety that seems to be growing with time. She’s a math teacher at a junior high school in […]

By Cindy Casares This week marks the one-year anniversary of the mysterious murder of ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata, a Brownsville native, who was gunned down on a stretch of […]

(PNS reporting from MEXICO CITY) Mexican superstar Vicente Fernandez, El Rey de la Cancion Mexicana, announced his retirement from the music industry Thursday, culminating a career that spanned more than 90 years, […]