TX Republican Candidate, His PJs and His Scantily Clad Friend

TX Republican Candidate, His PJs and His Scantily Clad Friend

Mary Mata October 19, 2010

Texas, oh, Texas! This week’s scandal du jour comes to us from South Texas where Texas Republican House candidate Blake Farenthold has become his own worst enemy after posing at […]

NewsTaco Week in Review: Machos, Telenovelas, Militares y la Política

Mary Mata October 16, 2010

Time to round up this week’s NewsTaco news…. It was the most racist of times when we saw how low some Republican lawmakers were willing to go with their scary […]

Saying Latinos live longer than whites or blacks is like telling the miserable that the meek will inherit the earth. They may feel better but it doesn’t change their reality.

Mary Mata October 14, 2010

It is well established that Latinos are the population group most likely to get inadequate health care and suffer from chronic maladies like diabetes and coronary afflictions. A recent government […]

A (Hopey Changey) Dream Deferred…

Mary Mata

If we can all take a moment and remember back to another time and place — 2008 to be exact — I wonder if we can recall the hope and […]

101 Year-Old Texas Woman Finally Becomes a Citizen

Mary Mata October 12, 2010

I know I sure don’t need anyone to tell me that immigrants are among the heartiest, hardest working and most persevering folks you’ll ever meet, but CNN found one lady […]

Why is Voting So Damn Hard?

Mary Mata October 11, 2010

When I was in junior high in Robstown’s only middle school &emdash; as they called them in a town that had five elementary schools but didn’t want too many Mexicans […]

NYT: Latinos will skip election over immigration

Mary Mata October 10, 2010

Like Latinos were turning out in humongous numbers and elevated percentages before, right? We’ll see. The opposite might be true, so says The New York Times.

10 Economic Facts About Immigration

Mary Mata October 4, 2010

The Brookings Institution put together an interesting list of 10 economic facts about immigration, something I think we can all appreciate given the heavy current anti-immigrant climate. Today’s Immigrants Hail […]

Famoso Sausage

Mary Mata September 26, 2010

Funny sign spotted at a recent Jazz festival in San Antonio, Texas: “Famoso Sausage en taco or kebob.” [Photo via]

My Journey Towards Mexitarianism

Mary Mata August 29, 2010

Sara Inés Calderón writes of her back-and-forth battle with becoming a vegetarian and continuing to embrace her Mexican culture and home city of San Antonio, Texas.