| Jaime Castillo: Car rental industry backs off promise to try to ...
After previously threatening to spend $1 million to fight the upcoming venue-tax election, the car rental industry has decided to sit it out after all. "We're not going to fight, in any kind of public sense, the referendum," said Patrick Farrell, a St. Louis-based Enterprise Rent-A-Car spokesman who commented Monday on behalf of a coalition of national rental car tax opponents. The news is a major boost to the efforts of Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who is leading an establishment push to extend the tax on hotel rooms and car rentals that was used to build the AT&T Center. If approved by voters on May 10, the $415 million package of four referendums would pay for various public projects. They would include amateur sports fields, a performing arts center, river enhancements and future improvements at the AT&T Center.
More passengers need to fly JetBlue and ExpressJet to keep service
The odds of finding the seat next to you empty on a flight leaving Tucson were better in January than they were six months ago. Maybe too good.JetBlue’s flights to New York took off from Tucson with just 53 percent of seats filled last month. Its flights coming in from the East were more full, averaging 66 percent of seats occupied. ExpressJet, which flies to nine cities, filled exactly half of all of its available seats in both directions. .
News of Enterprise
More snow came down and it was bitter cold last week, then the temperature went way up. Winter isn't over yet. It just seems natural to have a major storm around the middle of March. However, March did come in like a lion, so according to tradition, it should go out like a lamb. We'll just have to see what happens. No one controls the weather -- God is in charge of that.A variety of soups were served Monday evening at the Full Gospel Church at Jerusalem Corners. The Daughters of Light women's group made several different kinds of soup and customers were allowed as much as they wanted. The ladies have scheduled a bake sale at Quality Market March 22.Pleasantville TOPS #1305 met Thursday evening at the Pleasantville Community Church with 25 weigh-ins. There was a total weight loss of 19 pounds and four turtles (weight stayed the same).
Woman sentenced in fatal DUI
They have the choice to find another means of transportation, but they choose not to. That is intentional! I agree that alcoholism is a disease; however, it doesn't mean that you have to inflict that disease on others. I feel sorry for the victims family and especially for Mr. Erb, who not only had to suffer the injuries he sustained in the accident, but he is also the one who has to deal with seeing his friend killed. Have you ever witnessed a motorcycle accident? It isnt something that just goes away! I witnessed a friend killed in a motorcycle accident last March, and it is something that stays with you. You have vivid pictures of the accident, and keep wondering why it happened. Akaim - Fair and Just Punishment
(02/27/2008 )
Unlike feloniousjoe and the other bleeding hearts, I think the sentence was deserved and fair if not a little on the light side.
The scandal of Scotland's battered women
But why the divisive propoganda? because the elites need families breaking-up, getting the cops involved, going through the courts, and getting divorced. The elites are like sharks, they are soul-less. They don't care what happens to the poor of Scotland just as long as they get their elite positions and salaries. The fact is men/fathers are being forced out of their families by these elites that live off our famlies. Seems pointless to assauge morality in a totlaitarian nightmare! .
Redesign, day 2
Reader outrage over the Jumble has tempered, but we're still hearing some sporadic complaints about the new design. Some are easy to resolve, such as the readers looking for "Hints from Heloise" (it doesn't run every day) and Rebecca Nappi (her column doesn't run on Tuesdays). Others are a little more challenging. Smaller space means less room in the business section for the stock report, so business editor Addy Hatch is whittling down the listings. She's received about 20 calls today, with reaction "ranging from travesty to disappointment." The reality is that newspapers are no longer the best and most accurate medium for stock reports, and many bigger dailies are dropping the listings altogether. This, however, is little comfort to some of our older readers, who don't want to seek out the information online (incidentally, we don't have a stock report on our site, but we're looking into it.
Bonner buyer: Scott Cooney says he wants to be part of community's ...
Scott Cooney stands on a bluff above West Riverside, Bonner and the Blackfoot River last week. The Missoula businessman will soon own much of Bonner, having bought the houses near the Stimson Lumber Co. mill and the old log yard near West Riverside from Stimson.
Photo by TOM BAUER/Missoulian .
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