News Taco To Go: Immigration, Texas Fires, Cuba, Budget And Oil

President Barack Obama is beginning his 2012 campaign by talking about comprehensive immigration reform, even as Republicans flatly say anything having to do with CIR will not pass the House. […]

There’s a huge battle looming at the State House in Austin and the outcome will have an effect on how Latinos across the country gauge and plan their political futures. […]

Even though we knew it was coming, now that it’s here, it still stings. Republicans in Texas have taken their first stab at redistricting and — not so surprisingly — […]

By Henry Flores, Ph.D. You know I generally just study elections, concluding something about the electorate, how the campaign was run, why voters voted the way they did, the relation […]

Some people are so larger-than-life that when it’s time to talk about them, you feel speechless. That’s how I feel now writing this post about our late colleague, Carlos Guerra. […]

A group of Latino advocacy organizations in Texas have taken matters into their own hands when it comes to redistricting in the state. Calling themselves the Texas Latino Redistricting Task […]

by Melissa del Bosque from the Texas Observer where this article was first posted. The United States has become awfully hostile to immigrants crossing its southern border in recent years—unless […]

If Texas is an indication of what the rest of the country will be like and look like in the future-and we at News Taco have been pounding that drum […]

A sad, sad story from Texas that is being complicated on all sorts of ways. The basic story is this: Starting in September of last year, an 11 year-old girl […]

By Melissa del Bosque D magazine, the glossy Dallas lifestyle magazine, just published a list of 52 must-do items in its new issue that are “essential experiences” before one can become […]