Comstock: Tax Big Box Acres Of Free Parking
- June
- 4
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One of the massive changes in how we build our cities is in the retail sector. Most notable is the Wal- Martization factor where 60% of the city’s commercial tax base is being undermined by the tax treatment of this new-format retail: the Big Box with acres of parking. This change is not really surprising, [...]
Jack Trevino And Michael Struck On Starship Farragut The Animated Episodes Fan Series
- May
- 19
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Jack and Michael, please tell us about the genesis of Starship Farragut: The Animated Episodes.
Michael S: Well, as everyone may know, we are the CGI house for the live-action Starship Farragut. What most people don’t know is that we actually proposed an animated episode for New Voyages back in 2004/2005. This was before the original [...]
Selected Recent California Newspaper Editorials
- May
- 15
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has a chance to change California’s course significantly. Or, he can continue on the current disastrous path of more taxing, spending and borrowing in order to spend. We hope for a change, but experience tells us we’re probably in for more of the same.
We expect the governor to be unspectacularly predictable Wednesday when [...]
INSIGHTSA Busy Week by the Bay
- April
- 25
This last might seem surprising in light of NetSuite’s announcement that it was offering new enterprise capabilities for its target customer base. Specifically, the company said it now has fifty companies using its solution to run companies that operate in multiple countries with different currencies and accounting rules, so this was more than an [...]
Suburb fights mess alone
- April
- 20
Mr Mousa, from Kuwait, says helping out makes him happy.
People in this country should be helping each other, he says.
But he%26rsquo;s becoming frustrated by the lack of assistance from Auckland City Council.
Sometimes I go away and come back and find papers blowing around and bottles blowing around, he says.
There should be someone who cares for [...]
Fair work goes to ethics panel
- April
- 13
A panel of lawmakers this week will examine whether Senate President pro tem Abel Tapia had a conflict of interest while serving on a budget committee that approved building projects at the same time his engineering firm received state contracts.
The four-member ethics committee, made up of two senators and two members from the House, [...]
Lost in the system
- April
- 13
A lot of people tried to do the right thing for Jeff. And yet, it all went very wrong.
When a neighbor saw what she thought were choke marks on his little sister’s neck, she reported it.
Adams County human services responded quickly. Investigators talked to the children in person and away from their mother. [...]
No money to vacation? Kick back for a staycation
- April
- 8
AMELIA, OHIO - All through the months that the cold and wind and wet left this southeast suburb of Cincinnati shivering, Megan and Keith Licursi eagerly looked forward to their annual spring vacation: a road trip to see family and bask in the sunshine of Orlando, Fla.
But with gas prices forecast to climb as high [...]
The tendollar dinner
- April
- 8
Been to the grocery store lately? It’s not pretty. Prices are skyrocketing. Meat is more expensive. Dairy’s through the roof. Even seasonal vegetables are priced like luxury goods, not the daily staples they should be.
Blame rising overhead costs especially fuel for these bottom-line headaches. As our economy sags and drags its way [...]
The Feeling at the Shepherds Bush Empire W12
- April
- 8
Everything was running smoothly as the Feeling reached the end of a triumphant
British tour to celebrate the chart-topping success of their second album, Join
With Us. Its good to be back home, said the singer, Dan Gillespie
Sells, who resisted the temptation to tell us we were the best crowd in the
world but did reveal that the [...]
