NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Dec. 11-18, 2011

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Dec. 11-18, 2011

Mary Mata December 18, 2011

Even as we wind down the year for the holidays, some pretty exciting stuff went down. The Iraq War ended — huge deal — and we found out that most […]

Hablo Y Hablas: Tocayo

Mary Mata December 16, 2011

Do you know who your tocayo or tocaya is? You probably do but don’t even know it. Tocayo is a word used to mean “namesake,” or someone that has your […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Dec. 3-10, 2011

Mary Mata December 10, 2011

There’s one piece of news not in this roundup — that the Supreme Court has blocked Texas’ redistricting maps, read that here. Otherwise, my top pick was the announcement of […]

Hablo Y Hablas: Sana, Sana Colita De Rana

Mary Mata December 8, 2011

Hablo Y Hablas is our new language segment, in which we share words and phrases from our lives. This week I shared a saying from my childhood, “Sana, sana colita […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Nov. 19 – 27, 2011

Mary Mata November 27, 2011

Some great stuff this week, my favorite being the great political chisme of the week: a complete reshuffling of Texas’ congressional candidates. Check that out, for sure. Then there was […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Nov. 13 – 19, 2011

Mary Mata November 19, 2011

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 […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Nov. 6 – 12, 2011

Mary Mata November 12, 2011

Thanks for joining us for another week of NewsTaco news. We had some great stuff for you this week, including a big blow to the sponsor of SB 1070, the […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Oct. 31 – Nov. 5, 2011

Mary Mata November 5, 2011

It was a good week for light news at NewsTaco, as my top pick is a humorous video by the actor Michael Peña extolling the virtues of “putting a mustache […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: October 23 – 30, 2011

Mary Mata October 30, 2011

There’s a lot of great stuff on our roundup this week, so I’ll make my intro brief. There was a cool story about Latino hipsters, a roundup of our Halloween […]

NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: October 17-22, 2011

Mary Mata October 22, 2011

It was a great week in NewsTaco news this week, including information about the rise of young Latinos in Texas, Steven Seagal hunting immigrants, veterans, comics, voluptuous latinas, corporate leadership, […]