" Local Government Budgets ”It’s going to be a time that we all have to buckle down and get through this,” Mayor Julio Robaina of Hialeah said at a recent budget hearing. “Our residents are not in a position to pay more. Assessments are going to go down next year...
I don't know if this was once their tactic in tricking consumers, but when I buy chips, some bags are SO stuffed with air you have no idea the quantity of chips inside the bag. To your surprise when you open the bag,...
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The years of cheap gas prices are over as consumer groups call for urgent Government action on essential energy providers who are responsible for throttling the life out of the British economy...."British Gas ...
"06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small...
"The government of India has given its final clearance to sign the Indo-UK Film Co production Treaty. The treaty took three years of tough negotiations and more than 15 overseas visits by the film and govt officials...
"“China spends 9 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on infrastructure and India budgets 3.5 percent … while aiming to increase its allocation to 8 percent. By comparison, the United States budgets $112.9 billion or just 0.93 percent of its GDP, and sidesteps the...
More Moby in movies? I like that it's free for indie filmmakers, but isn't there enough Moby floating around in the pop culture universe? Also, I didn't know he was a "dance musician." I thought he was more of...
""The world oil price hike had caused concern because sooner or later it will affect budgets (corporate as well as state budgets)," general chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), MS Hidayat, said here on Wednesday when asked for his comment on...
Of the many regional groups throughout the USA working towards secession from the Union, Second Vermont Republic seems to be the most serious and has a growing amount of public support amongst the fiercly...
The results of the Jordanian municipal elections may portend future Islamists trends in Jordan. As Mr. Schenker notes:"Jordanians go to the polls tomorrow to elect nearly 1,000 local representatives and 92 mayors. On their own, these elections are of minimal interest to...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOne of Vancouver's own saw a niche market and ran with it. Markus Frind needed a girlfriend upgrade, and on the sly, (assuming unbeknownst to his current...
"CHICAGO (AdAge.com)
-- U.S. ad spending -- at least the measured kind -- fell 0.3% in the
January-to-March period, the first down quarter since the ad recovery
began in 2002. But a drop in reported ad spending does not mean a drop
in marketing spending. That's because what...
Need any more evidence that the United States is in the hands of robber barons? - The Angryindian----------------Also posted to Intelligentaindigena:
For Immediate Release: May 1, 2007
Contact: Lynn Erskine,...
"On March 21, the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the federal budgets of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) challenged the leaders of those two organizations concerning their handling...
Internet companies have had great success selling
advertising space, in part because the effectiveness of those ads is
supposedly so easily measured. But marketers, even as they continue to
push more of their ad budgets online, are starting to ask for better
proof.A group of...