One year ago this week, Chula Vista Mayor Mary Casillas Salas sat at a fancy Mexican restaurant in the city’s downtown and prepared to eat some octopus tacos dressed with habanero salsa. Soon after, ...

Claim: The word gringo came from Mexicans' overhearing American soldiers sing the song "Green Grow the Lilacs" during the Mexican-American War. Other versions of this etymological legend attribute the ...

The word doesn't necessarily mean what you think it does. And it applies to a much larger group of people than you might expect. A college classmate asked me, "Where are you from?" I gave him the long ...