Rey Flores

Rey Flores

Rey Flores is an American newspaper columnist. He was born and raised in Chicago’s Bucktown of Mexican immigrant parents in 1967. Rey has been a social worker, community and labor organizer and now a freelance opinion columnist. He has been published regularly in the Chicago Tribune’s ‘Hoy’ newspaper, the Sun-Times News Group’s Herald News, Latinos Network in Chicago magazine, the Extra bilingual newspaper and Univision.com.

Flores has been referred to as the “Chicano Mike Royko” by "Editor and Publisher" magazine, which also noted that he is “the most interesting columnist writing right now, that if he were writing primarily in English, his column would be turning heads and no doubt touching off a deluge of e-mails across Chicagoland”.

Flores holds some social conservative values, but generally has worked for what could be considered liberal causes; this may cause some confusion to his readers, who don't always know if he's being honest about his feelings, or just trying to see how far he can pull their collective leg.

Rey Flores was also the lead singer & guitarist for the power-pop trio "the Statistics" and later known as the "Spring Reverb". Flores recorded a CD of original songs in 1999 at Plutone Sound Studios in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood. The Statistics 'sound' has a certain anger, angst, and Indie-Rock vibe; the [http://lo-res.com/bands/spring_reverb.htm Spring Reverb]

References

*cite news |title=Is Rey Flores the Chicano Mike Royko? |url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001016163 |publisher= Editor & Publisher| first= Mark |last= Fitzgerald |date=August 17, 2005

External links

* [http://reyfloresamerica.blogspot.com/ Rey Flores' America] Rey Flores' weblog


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