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This study, conducted in partnership with the Lear Center Local News Archive (University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication), provides important baseline data on how U.S. politics is covered by the Spanish-language broadcast media.

Statistics are alarming. US households own an average of 13 credit cards and owe about $8,000. Forty percent of families spend more than they earn each year. Sadly, one in every 100 families is on the verge of bankruptcy.

The U.S. Department of Education and PBS are hosting a Ready To Learn summit titled “A Child’s Life: Learning, Literacy and the Role of the Media,” to be held on Feb. 3-4, 2005 at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, MD.

The American Advertising Federation (AAF) Most Promising Minority Students (MPMS) program is providing the highest level of qualified minority candidates in its history to corporations seeking top-tier advertising and marketing talent. Increasing by 60 percent in the last two years, the 2005 MPMS program is the advertising industry’s largest and most comprehensive diversity hiring solution.

Rick Najera’s award winning comedy LatinoLogues will kick off its national tour Saturday, January 22, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. for one performance only at San Diego’s Spreckels Theatre.

Condorito, the star of the world’s most widely syndicated Hispanic comic strip, is about to become the top Hispanic star in the U.S., if his backers at World Editors, Inc. have anything to say about it.

Three Kings Day is celebrated on January 6th, twelve days after Christmas. It is often viewed as the last day of the Christmas season (the end of the 12 days of Christmas).

The fascinating life of 94-year-old pioneering New Mexico “Gran Dama” Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven has now been chronicled in a new, authorized biography by Kathryn M. Cordova titled, ¡Concha! Concha Ortiz y Pino: Matriarch of a 300-Year-Old New Mexico Legacy (La Herencia Gran Via 2004).