El Vaquero

Tex Wells

September 4, 2012

Tex Wells was born in a little town in the Texas panhandle.   He moved to Los Angeles when he was a senior in high school.  After a stint as a volunteer in the Army, he came back to LA where he worked on two Los Angeles Community College District  newspapers.  Tex has served El Vaquero as a photographer... Read more »

Public Figures Support Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants

Tex Wells, El Vaquero Staff Writer
April 4, 2012

Two of Southern California’s big guns, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck and Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, have spoken out in favor of driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. “My personal belief is that they should be able to” have licenses, Beck said in a Los Angeles... Read more »

Renner’s Dedication to Women’s History Empowers Students

Tex Wells, El Vaquero Staff Writer
March 14, 2012

She walks into room 220 of the library building waving to her students, mouthing the word “Hi,” and flashing a smile as big as her home state, Texas. Professor Marguerite Renner, affectionately known to her colleagues as “Peggy,” and to many of her students as “Dr. Renner,” is in her third... Read more »