Texas Democrats Set To Elect First Hispanic Leader
Texas Democrats Set To Elect First Hispanic Leader
By Pete Litterski, Voxxi Gilberto Hinojosa, the odds-on favorite to be elected the next chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, knows he faces a formidable challenge once he takes the […]
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Thursday, April 26, 2012 Latino Evangelicals Rally Voters Around Complex Election 2012 Agenda (Huffington Post): Both left- and right-leaning Latino evangelical groups are staging multi-city voter registration and mobilization drives over […]
Texas Takes Notice As Supreme Court Hears Arizona Case
Peter Malof, Texas News Service SAN JUAN, Texas – The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in a controversial immigration-enforcement case which could have a big impact on Texas families. […]
Net-Zero, A New U.S. Reality
By Victor Landa Picture this: It’s mid to late February on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. On the U.S. side, in Laredo, Texas, they’re celebrating George Washington’s birthday with a […]
Texas Has Yet To Follow Arizona’s Lead On Immigration
By Christopher Rangel Currently, Texas does not have an immigration law pending a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice as other states do. However, that does not mean the […]
Bien Hecho: Carmen Tafolla Is San Antonio’s First Poet Laureate
Earlier this month, the city of San Antonio, Texas inaugurated its first Poet Laureate, UTSA scholar Dr. Carmen Tafolla. Tafolla, currently the university’s writer-in-residence for Children’s, Youth, and Transformative Literature was […]
Democrats Ignore Texas Latinos To their Own Peril
By Forest Wilder, The Texas Observer There’s a rule of thumb in journalism that “two’s a coincidence, three’s a trend.” Two of something may mean nothing, but find three examples […]
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Monday, April 23, 2012 Justices to Rule on Role of the States in Immigration (New York Times): The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday on the bitterly disputed immigration enforcement law that was passed […]
Texas Voter I.D. Case Could Dismantle U.S. Civil Rights Law?
By Peter Malof, Texas News Service HOUSTON – Court watchers say a Texas case could trigger the dismantling of a decades-old civil rights law. Steven Shapiro, the American Civil Liberties […]
Texas Sen. Carlos Truan, A Living Legacy
If you venture too far from South Texas or the mired halls of Texas’ state capitol politics you may not not run into too many people who’ve heard of Carlos Truan. But […]
