1. Nuestros impuestos

Tax help for Spanish speakers is available from a variety of sources. Today's _La Opinión_ (Los Angeles) has a detailed, box-by-box explanation of the W-2 at (believe it or not)

http://www.laopinion.com:81/archivo/index.html?START=1&RESULTSTART=1&DISPLAYTYPE=single&
WORDS=%0A%09w%2D2+W%2D2%0A&FREETEXT=W%2D2&FDATEd12=&FDATEd13=&SORT _
MODE=SORT_MODE which kicks off a series that will run through April 15. The newspaper invites tax questions to impuestos@laopinion.com and will soon mount a dedicated website. Stay tuned.

The IRS offers a number of useful documents in Spanish, findable through

http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/plain/tax_edu/teletax/tema950.html , and their printed Publication 579SP, general filing information in Spanish, is all yours with a call to 1-800-829-3676.

ARA Content, a cost-free source of articles for press and Web reprint, also features many pieces in Spanish on tax topics.

They're indexed at http://www.aracontent.com/ara_search_result.cfm?categoryID=102 and your free registration as a member allows you to print and use the items as you please. You could, for example, photocopy some of these for your library's tax form display.

Castañeda Business & Tax Service, Inc. of San Diego has mounted a detailed page of tax advice at http://www.pizazz.com/tax/cbts/espanol/impuestos-general.html

And even your buddies at H&R Block now have a limited Spanish-language presence on the Web at http://www.hrblock.com/es/tax_center/

2. Nadal Prize 2001

Since 1945 the Premio Nadal, Spain's oldest literary award, has honored novelists of that nation. Last week the honors went to Fernando Marías Franco for _El niño de los coroneles_, described as "a globe-trotting detective story about tyrants...inspired by the regime of the late Romanian despot Nicolae Ceaucescu." Read all about it (in English)

at http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010107/15/spain-literary-prize

3. Arte Público Press introduces book award

More than 1,000 entries came in, and this month Arte Público Press promises to announce the first winner of its "Reading with Energy" Hispanic Children's Book Award aimed to address "the need for more culturally relevant bilingual reading materials for Hispanic children." The story's

at http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010110/business-133

4. M-I-C...K-E-Y...R-A-T-Ó-N

Find out why, and how, those relentless marketeers at Disney Interactive are now pushing Spanish-language versions of their games and computer products here in the US:

http://www.diversityinc.com/insidearticlepg.cfm?SubMenuID=170&ArticleID=2283&fromemail=yes