Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
By Frances Beinecke When I speak to lawmakers and business leaders about the costs of climate change, they tend to think in terms of damaged property and lost agricultural revenue. Certainly the fires in Texas and the flooding from Vermont to Virginia have brought home the staggering costs associated with rebuilding homes and replanting crops.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
By Frances Beinecke When I speak to lawmakers and business leaders about the costs of climate change, they tend to think in terms of damaged property and lost agricultural revenue. Certainly the fires in Texas and the flooding...
Monday, November 21st, 2011
By Expediente Rojo Approximately 15,000 people in the U.S. die every year from perscription drug overdose. In the last 10 years, there’s been a drastic rise in the number of deaths caues by overdosing on doctor prescribed...
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
If current trends continue, about 50 percent of Americans will be obese by 2030, according to a new study. This would increase the total number of obese people in the country from 99 million to 164 million,...
Monday, November 14th, 2011
By Maria Elena Alvarez Albuquerque, New Mexico — The White House has put a bead on the Hispanic community, and if Albuquerque were a microcosm of what is happening across the country, the administration’s professionals are getting...
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Cancer is expensive — the American Cancer Society estimates that the 2010 total cost of cancer in the U.S. soared to $263.8 billion (The Huffington Post Oct 12, 2011). Along with these costs can come financial ruin....
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
In an effort to improve its ability to highlight disparities in health status and target interventions to reduce them, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final standards to more consistently measure race, ethnicity, sex,...
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
So my favorite part of President Barack Obama’s Latino roundtable yesterday was how wonderfully he pronounced “Puerto Rico” and “Calderón” when answering questions that came from the readers and viewers of several different Latino media outlets. Of...
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Mitt Romney continued his pitch to Latinos in Los Angeles yesterday and the mayor of that city, Antonio Villaraigosa held a tele-press conference to seize the moment and call foul. I think the bigger picture here is...
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
News Taco interviewed Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair and San Antonio-area Democratic Congressman Charles A. Gonzalez, who spoke to us about the tragic consequences of using immigration as a wedge issue. Gonzalez told News Taco that this type...
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Democrats may be able to take back Congress, according to a CNN poll and a former congressman News Taco spoke to this week. The CNN poll asked more than 1,000 mostly registered voters who they would vote...
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Latinos not only need health care reform, but Spanish speaking health care professionals, writes Matthew Stieglitz in an excellent post from Latino Politics Blog. Stieglitz’s abuelita broke her hip during the holidays and he had some very...
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