Tag Archives: politics
“Ain’t No Stopping Us Now” or Latino Voters Explained in One Song
June 20, 2012
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Kitchen tables is where family budgets are stretched next to clipped coupons or if you’re digitally savvy like Cuponeando‘s Yoly Mason, bar-scanned into her smartphone. Growing up we had a round table which held in its unbroken circle my dreams, Read More...
Candidate Impulso: Cristina’s or the Economy’s?
June 18, 2012
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Cristina Saralegui, better known to Latinos simply as “Cristina” is Spanish-language TV’s Oprah. Her popular talk show El show de Cristina for 21 years beginning in 1989 made her beloved among U.S. Hispanics who felt no one was speaking to them Read More...
The Give Up
June 1, 2012
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Everything is an exchange. Everything. And virtually everything is politics. I’m not talking ’bout kissing babies and stumping at high school auditoriums once every four years. What kinds of light bulbs do you use? Do you send your children to Read More...
“Dream a Little Bigger,” Unless You’re a DREAMer
June 1, 2012
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Ignore. Shhh. Keep Quiet. That’s the campaign’s strategy on immigration since the GOP Presidential debates. Mitt Romney supports legal immigration, a position that breaks with the fringe such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform which does not support any Read More...
¿It’s the Economía, Estúpido?
May 25, 2012
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A speech. An Ad. Un ado. Separately, each means nothing more than a headline but together, we can see the tightrope Mitt Romney is walking as he tries to reach out to Latinos, the demographic juggernaut and emerging voting bloc Read More...
TWLC’s Viviana Hurtado Selected as One of Most Influential Latina Bloggers
May 21, 2012
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LATINOS IN SOCIAL MEDIA (LATISM) SALUTES VIVIANA HURTADO AS ONE OF THE TOP LATINA BLOGGERS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY As part of the recognition, Viviana Hurtado will attend the First Ever Top Latina Blogger Retreat in Washington, DC WASHINGTON, DC (May 17, Read More...
Election 2012: Will Obama Deliver on Comprehensive Immigration Reform?
May 18, 2012
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Why do I keep pushing on comprehensive immigration reform? It’s not just because I believe our current laws are better suited for the 20th century and that the economic benefits to reform are tremendous to our strapped local budgets. Or Read More...
Election 2012: Same-Sex Marriage Now, Immigration Policy Later?
May 17, 2012
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So here I was mindin’ my own business at a spontaneous Wednesday Happy Hour on a gorgeous, balmy perfect DC PM when my friend ripped into me over my latest Latina Magazine column. “Don’t you realize that President Obama is the President, Read More...
