Gonzalez’s Retirement Makes Room For Younger Latino Politicos

The last two times I spoke to congressman Charlie Gonzalez I noticed a sense of futility in his demeanor. It wasn’t a fatalism that you’d attribute to someone who’d given […]

By DeeDee Garcia Blase, Co-President of the National Tequila Party Movement May the death of Joaquin Luna not go in vain. DREAM Act student, Joaquin Luna, recently took his life in Texas. […]

By Roberto Ontiveros Celebrated author and benefactor of Latino/Latina writers, Sandra Cisneros plans to leave Texas. Cisneros, who lives in San Antonio, says she wants to spend more time pursuing her […]

The announcement today from San Antonio Congressman Charlie Gonzalez that he will retire when his term expires has reconfigured the cast of candidates looking to get to Congress in 2012. Now, […]

Three federal judges released interim 2012 Congressional maps after a lawsuit alleging the original map disenfranchised Latino voters. The new maps give three of the four congressional seats to Democratic-leaning […]

By Jim Hightower, otherwords.org Far from being a chaotic war zone, a study of the 14 Texas counties bordering Mexico shows that the number of murders has actually declined in […]

The Obama campaign hired Texas native Adrian Saenz to be the National Latino Vote Director last week, part of the campaign’s efforts to drive the Latino vote in 2012. While […]

By Melissa del Bosque El Paso has been doing its part in representing the Occupy Wall Street movement. At least 60 people were camped out at San Jacinto Plaza in […]

Hey NewsTaco readers, just wanted to give you the head’s up on some great stories we had this week. Everything from great pastries to great tragedies made it to our […]

By Michael Li The three-judge panel in Washington released its interim map proposals for the state house and senate today. The maps can be found here The senate map is Plan […]