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HispanicAd.com & ADnotas.com wishes you and your family a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend. We will be back on Monday November 29, 2004.

Nothing can compare to a Latino Christmas. We love having family and friends over the house during the holiday season, as the spirit of giving and sharing becomes even more special. We strive to prepare the best down home holiday meals and we love to give presents.

The necessity for teacher diversity is often overlooked rather than accepted as central to school reform. High-stakes tests impede efforts to expand the pool of prospective teachers of color. And the logistics of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) continue to create significant barriers to recruiting teachers of color.

Leading trends across the country, The Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF) and White Memorial Medical Center (WMMC) Rainbow Children’s Center, the first-of-its-kind licensed childcare in Los Angeles, will benefit from a $1 million grant from local government and community organizations to improve quality child care in the inner city.

This late surge in advertising was led by two anti-Kerry or pro-Bush groups—Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth and Progress for America Voter Fund—which together spent $23 million. Much of their money went to key battleground states including Ohio, which received at least $6.6 million in advertising expenditures and ultimately won Bush the election.

More than 7.6 million Latinos went to the polls in the national elections of 2004, increasing their voter participation by more than 1.6 million over the 2000 presidential election, according to preliminary results of a turnout study conducted by the William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI) on Election Day.

U.S. political advertising spending for 2004 is projected to exceed $1.45 billion, according to data released by TNS Media Intelligence/CMR, the leading provider of strategic advertising and marketing information.

I wrote this article on Sunday without the knowledge of who will have won the election. Regardless of who wins (and if there is a clear “winner” at all), there will certainly have been one of the largest voter turnouts of the last 20 years and I think that this fact is a direct result of the Web.

The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) hailed two historic milestones for the Latino community coming out of the 2004 election. First, an unprecedented number of Latinos went to the voting booth on Tuesday. At least seven million Latinos and perhaps as many as 9.6 million turned out to vote, representing a dramatic increase from the 2000 presidential election. Second, for the first time ever, there will be two Latinos in the United States Senate, ending a nearly 30-year-old drought for Hispanic representation in that body.

Don’t criticize if you do not vote when you have the right to do so. Having the right and not voting is a real shame. When millions of immigrants in the USA would be honored to have that right and cannot. Don’t throw away you vote by not voting. HispanicAd.com