Feeling LA Nostalgia In New Jersey

Feeling LA Nostalgia In New Jersey

Mary Mata July 13, 2011

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

Mary Mata June 14, 2011

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

Mary Mata

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

Mary Mata April 21, 2011

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

Mary Mata April 19, 2011

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

Mary Mata

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

Mary Mata February 24, 2011

[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

Mary Mata January 4, 2011

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 […]