10 areas within Texas that made it among Pew’s top 60 Hispanic metropolitan areas

Bellow are the 10 areas within Texas that made it among Pew’s top 60 Hispanic metropolitan areas: 3. Houston-Brazoria, TX with Hispanic population of 2,044,000 6. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX with Hispanic population of 1,746,000 9. San Antonio, TX with Hispanic population of 1,090,000 13. McAllen-Edinburg-Pharr-Mission, TX with Hispanic population of 707,000 14. El Paso, TX with Hispanic population of 662,000 20. Austin, TX with Hispanic population of 502,000 29. Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito, TX with Hispanic population of 359,000 36. Laredo, TX with Hispanic population of 240,864 46. Corpus Christi, TX with Hispanic population of 157,275 55. Odessa, TX with Hispanic population of 124,633

Congratulations to AaronPena.com for Winning Pollie Award

A website that highlights the work of Texas State Representative Aaron Peña (AaronPena.com) has received a Pollie Award from the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC). The Pollies, considered the Oscars of political consulting, are scored and awarded by a blind panel of industry judges chosen from inside the association.

The award recognized the work of Rep. Peña's internet consultants Upstream Communications of Austin, Texas.

“I congratulate our agency, Upstream Communications for great creative work and for helping me through our award winning website communicate with my constituents and the people of Texas,” said Rep. Aaron Peña.

The Pollie Awards were presented on March 30 in Austin, Texas. The AAPC was founded in 1969 as a multi-partisan, nonprofit organization for political professionals. Each year the organization recognizes the best of the best in the business in over 600 political campaign and public affairs categories.

Upstream Communications received a total of 5 Pollie awards at the 2012 Annual Conference.