Feeling LA Nostalgia In New Jersey
Feeling LA Nostalgia In New Jersey
I now realize how naïve my left-sided, LA politics have made me. They do not mean much outside of California, particularly when it comes to gay marriage. I learned this the hard […]
“Mexican Hunters” Profiled Latinos At New Jersey Airport
Screeners for the Transportation Security Administration, TSA, spent about a year from 2008 to 2009 routinely profiling “Hispanic male passengers, especially Mexicans and Dominicans, to see if they had proper […]
The Top 10 States With The Largest Latino Populations
Looking at the most recent Census data allows us to obtain a clearer picture of how, precisely, Latinos are growing as a population in this country. However, looking at this […]
NJ Sen. Bob Menendez On Redistricting, 2012 And Leadership
New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez sat down with News Taco this week to talk about a few key issues pertaining to Latinos. He spoke to us about the importance […]
New Jersey Man Goes To Jail For Threats To Latinos
A New Jersey man who sent threatening emails to Latino organizations from anonymous email accounts received a sentence of 50 months in prison and a fine of $10,000. We wrote […]
News Taco To Go: Latino Harassment, Castro & Obama Takes On Immigration
Fidel Castro will not be be a part of Cuba’s Communist Central Committee. A man who sent threatening emails to Latino activists is headed to jail in New Jersey. President […]
The Short, Sad Ballad of Tapatío Hot Sauce
[Editor’s Note: Author Oscar Barajas works in Los Angeles and will be writing dispatches for us from East LA.] I have grown up and spent most of my life in […]
Escándalo With New Jersey’s Latino Supreme Court Justice
It’s a really long story, but here goes. The escándalo began in 2007 when New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto improperly used his position to intercede in a matter […]