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commerce
Name Change
Beaner’s Coffee, a Michigan-based franchise with 77 stores in nine states, announced that it would change its name to Biggby Coffee effective January 31, 2008. The name-change came about due to internal concerns about the derogatory meaning of the term. As the company expands, especially into the south and southwest, that may be prove a smart move.

hail cesar
Moving Up
Cesar Conde, former vice president and operations top man at Galavision was named executive vice president, chief strategy officer of Univision, Galavision’s parent company. In his new role, Conde coordinates the company’s radio, Internet and television efforts, identifies new business opportunities and will also have direct oversight of the company’s community affairs and government relations teams. Prior to joining Univision, he was appointed by President George W. Bush as White House Fellow for Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.

music
A Lasting Legacy
Los Tigres del Norte, Alberto Cortez, Lucho Gatica, Olga Guillot, Os Paralamas do Sucesso and Chavela Vargas have been selected to receive The Latin Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The awards are given to performers who have made “creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance during their lifetime.”

history
A Stamp to Remember
The U.S. Postal Service released a new 41-cent stamp celebrating the 60th anniversary of the decision in Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District et al. The case was a milestone in the fight to end racial segregation in California schools. The decision became the basis for the subsequent Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which abolished racial segregation in schools nationally.

business & politics
Regional Talks
On September 20 to 21, international business leaders and government officials gathered for the 11th annual Miami Herald Americas Conference focusing on “the region’s competitive landscape and challenges.” Speakers and panelists included Gustavo A. Cisneros, chairman and CEO, Cisneros Group of Companies; David Landsberg, president and publisher, The Miami Herald; Carlos Gutierrez, United States Secretary of Commerce; El Salvador President Elías Antonio Saca; and Luis Alberto Moreno, president, Inter-American Development Bank, among others. Emilio Azcarraga Jean, president and CEO, Grupo Televisa, was a keynote speaker, and focused on the challenges facing media in Latin America today.

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campaign ‘08
Press one for Spanish
On September 9, Democratic presidential candidates gathered at the University of Miami for what became the first ever Spanish-language presidential debate. Organized by Univision and moderated by its star journalists Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos, the event was attended by all but one candidate, Joe Biden. For the most part, there was little new to the debate other than a stronger emphasis on immigration. Reactions were mixed. While some felt the translations were lacking and disagreed with Univision’s decision to ban the two candidates who can speak Spanish (Richardson and Dodd) from doing so in order to level the playing field, others found the event historic, even if only for symbolic reasons. Whatever your opinion, the numbers speak for themselves. Nielsen reported that the Univision debate, with 4.6 million viewers, topped the debates on ABC, CNN, FOX and MSNBC. The Univision debate almost doubled all others in 18- to 49-year-old viewers, and had an average viewer age of 36, compared to 61 on the other networks. If nothing else, it provided a clear statement of the growing power of Latino youth in the country.

publishing
The Book of Power
PODER Magazine, a joint venture between Televisa Publishing and Page One Media— publishers of Hispanic Magazine and Hispanic Enterprise—is turning its yearly December franchise, Los Poderosos, into a book to be published the same month. The special edition will include profiles of the 50 most powerful Latinos in the country. PODER also recently launched its Miami edition, focusing on a city that has become the merging point for the Americas.

Buzzwords

"Don’t leave your life in the desert; your family asks you not to."

A public service announcement that Mexico and the U.S. Border Patrol have put up along migrant trails in the desert in hopes of preventing the hundreds of deaths due to migrants attempting to illegally cross the border into the U.S. through the Southwestern desert.
The New York Times

"Ruben Salazar put an indelible stamp on the profession of journalism in Los Angeles. From the battlefields of Vietnam to the streets of East L.A., he reported the news with a rare combination of toughness and humanity."

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as the U.S. Postal Service announced the Ruben Salazar stamp, honoring the late journalist who reported on the Vietnam War for the Los Angeles Times and who died when he was hit by police fire while covering an anti-Vietnam War rally. His is one of five stamps honoring journalists.
Los Angeles Times

"We really would like to encourage immigrant families to continue the kinds of eating that they ate in their country of origin because our studies show that the longer they’ve been in this country the more likely that their children are going to get fat."

Pat Crawford, a co-director of the Center for Weight and Health at the University of California, Berkeley on why obesity and type 2 diabetes has hit immigrant children especially hard.
CNN.com

"To allow women to be diagnosed with breast cancer and then create an obstacle for them to get treatment is a horrendous policy."

Donna Lawrence, executive director of the New York City affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, in response to the federal government’s decision that illegal immigrants do not qualify for chemotherapy through a government-funded program for emergency care in New York state. The decision is expected to spark debate over what constitutes emergency care, and who can receive it.
The New York Times