Politics + Minnesota Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

June 19, 2009

Minnesota’s Legislature’s Chicano Latino Affairs Council has named an interim executive director to replace Rogelio Munoz, who resigned abruptly last week, citing internal conflicts with the small agency’s board of directors.

May 20, 2009

Minnesota Rejects Real ID Act Of 2005 – 23 States Push Back Against Unfunded Mandate To Create National ID

September 5, 2008

Destination Casa Blanca 2008 Show Is on the Road Again, This Time in Minneapolis-Saint Paul at the Republican National Convention

Hispanic delegate hoping to get his brethren to vote McCain – Colorado’s Joe Nunez

September 3, 2008

Daddy Yankee drew hundreds of fans and some RNC delegates to a concert at Myth nightclub. – (sounds like a small crowd)

August 28, 2008

Latin Superstar Daddy Yankee to Kick Off 2008 Republican National Convention Week with Fiesta Americana Concert

June 11, 2008

Minnesota Gov. Pawlenty flip-flops on Cuba just in time to cozy up to McCain

April 29, 2008

Pawlenty vetoes legislative call for ending Cuba trade, travel restrictions – Minnesota

March 9, 2008

Diplomat leaves Mexican consulate in good stead – Nathan Wolf – St. Paul-Minneapolis

February 6, 2008

Carleton College Hosts Lecture on Mexican Statesman and Historian Lucas Alamán

February 5, 2008

Pawlenty’s immigration plan contradicts King’s values – Minnesota

January 9, 2008

Gov. Pawlenty’s immigration proposal has support, dissent – Minnesota

January 8, 2008

Gov. Tim Pawlenty is renewing his call to crack down on illegal immigration in Minnesota. The governor’s plan includes some initiatives that don’t need legislative approval and some that do. – (yet another state)

December 12, 2007

Javier Morillo-Alicea: What’s a Minnesota politician doing with the Minutemen?

November 29, 2007

Illegal immigration emerges as key issue in First District race – At the behest of an advocacy group, Republican candidate Dick Day went to the U.S.-Mexican border, and others may follow. – Minnesota

June 4, 2007

Minnesota’s first Latina state senator lays out her first session

March 12, 2007

Gimse appointed, Juhnke reappointed to state’s Chicano Latino Affairs Council – Minnesota

February 12, 2007

Frank Rodriguez, first Hispanic in Minnesota House, dies

February 8, 2007

Political theater focuses on Latino immigration – Minnesota