Blogante Headlines for September 15th, 2007 – Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month!!!!

A special Saturday edition: welcome to the start of the Hispanic Heritage Month! Did you know that as a blogger I have collected, posted and organized over 40,000 in 3 years and that I will hit the 30,000 mark on HispanicTips before the end of Hispanic Heritage Month? How is that for serendipity? These feats, I imagine, make me the nation’s most prolific Hispanic blogger. I personally think that this site is a celebration of Hispanic and Latino news. News that we need. News that no one else is providing on such a scale in a format designed to make it easy to keep you and me informed. Please during this month consider telling people about HispanicTips – forward this newsletter, tell your family and friends.

Please note that I have added one more section to Blogante Headlines (should be the last). Premium Press Releases are paid press releases. I am all for helping people get their information out.. There are many great products, services and events from or for Hispanics that have a hard time finding some press, including HispanicTips and today’s release about ‘Hola Day’ on October 1st.. I have posted over 3,000 releases since the inception of HispanicTips. Many I find in the wilds of the internet and others are sent to me but I only have so much time and two hand so I can’t post everything (plus many releases are simply not relevant). Just because I post a release doesn’t mean that much, if people don’t see/read it and I almost never make a press release one of my top stories or my picks. So now you can go with a Premium Press Release and get more exposure. I won’t bore you with the details here but you can learn more on this page if you are interested.

Gracias, Tomás

Top Stories –» view: excerpts | section

Alberto Gonzales Leaves Justice Department – (last day Friday – September 14th, 2007)

Hispanic businesses feel the squeeze – Crackdown on illegal immigration partly blamed for sudden halt in sales – Georgia

Coffee chain drops names over concerns it’s an ethnic slur – Beaner’s Coffee – (good move)

Guatemala Adoption Boom Creates Controversy

For Rich Mexicans, Parallel Lives in U.S.

My Picks (Tomás’ handpicked highlights) –» view: excerpts | section

Mexico’s Prophets of Climate Change: Women Forest Defenders

Enfermeras made in México : EU interesado en contratarlas – US looking to Mexico for nurses

Forget Spanglish ”” español, please – Rio Grande Valley, Texas

Texas Ranger pitcher Vicente Padilla rides to El Centro’s rescue with a $25,000 gift – Kitsap County

Hector Garcia celebration is made official – official state holiday in Texas

Lock of Che Guevara’s Hair to Be Sold – Oct. 25-26.

Book Review: ‘Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor And the Dark Side of the New Global Economy’

Puerto Rican independence activist gets island citizenship ID – Juan Mari Bras

Did You Know –» view: excerpts | section

The Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas are first and second in the nation in household income for Hispanics.

The Mexico Tourism Board spends $40 million annually in U.S. on marketing

Hispanics are now about 8% of the electorate, but they’re projected to become 20% by 2020 and one-quarter of the total U.S. population by 2050

Between 1996 and 2004, the Republican share of the Hispanic vote doubled to more than 40%, only to fall in last year’s midterm election to less than 30%. The most recent polls show Hispanics breaking for Democrats over Republicans by 51% to 21%.

George W. Bush spent $3.3 million on Spanish-language TV ads in 2004. John Kerry spent $1.3 million

Hispanics in the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Madison counties, had $214.6 million in buying power, created 2,300 spinoff jobs, resulted in $54.9 million in spinoff labor income and generated $10.1 million in state taxes in 2004 – North Carolina

5 million people who have seen Forever Tango

Shakira has an IQ of 140

Last year, more than 4,000 Guatemalan children were adopted by US citizens.

To earn $50 in a day, an Immokalee picker must harvest two tons of tomatoes, or 125 buckets. Each bucket weighs about thirty-two pounds – Florida.

Quotes –» view: excerpts | section

“One-third of the population in Texas is Hispanic – right? If you take whatever business you’re in and cut the pie into three pieces and say, ‘I don’t need one-third of the pie,’ is that good for business?,” – Jaime Gonzalez, national business development manager for UnitedHealthcare’s Latino Health Solutions

Election 2008 –» view: excerpts | section

nada hoy

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