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reading Democrat articles online
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Chip Orange
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May 18, 2009 06:28 PDT
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Here's a big tip for reading democrat articles online:
find the article you want, perhaps with google if you know what to
search for, and then choose the "print" link on the article page.
this will take you into a page with greatly simplified formating for the
article, and it will automatically start the printing dialog. just
escape out of it, which cancels the printing, and leaves you in the
simplified page without any advertising.
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.O-@psc.state.fl.us
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
| | -----Original Message-----
From: Darla Rogers [mailto:djroge-@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 11:19 PM
To: TA-@topica.com
Subject: Re: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
Dear Chip,\
Allison does an awesome job at spotting articles that provide
information we
might not get elsewhere.
I still find its format a bit difficult to navigate, andI
have tried, to the
best of my ability to follow the suggestions proffered by all
the great
techie minds on list.
Darla
Darla J. Rogers, B.A., M.S.
Skype ID." wildflower0628
"Today, I will search for my own truth and will allow others to do the
same. I will place value on my vision, as well as on the vision of
others. We are each on the journey, making our own discoveries--the
ones that are right for us today."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange" <acor-@comcast.net>
To: <TA-@topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:29 PM
Subject: RE: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
| | If I have time I will find another article from today's
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democrat. it says
| | the county will have another meeting in a month on the
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subject of the
| | additional gas tax to support the transportation fund.
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evidently this
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has never been fully supported by gas taxes, and until
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recently, it had
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propped up by property taxes. now, with the state-wide property tax
roll-backs, this is evidently no longer possible.
Chip
p.s.
Allison does all the spotting of interesting articles for
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TABI, and lets
| | me hear any she thinks we may want to put on the list.
-----Original Message-----
From: Darla Rogers [mailto:djroge-@comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:07 PM
To: TA-@topica.com
Subject: Re: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
Let the taxes begin, or let the drivers help us get to our
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appointments,
| | shopping or whatever.
My heart bleeds ice water!!!!!
Darla
Darla J. Rogers, B.A., M.S.
Skype ID." wildflower0628
"Today, I will search for my own truth and will allow
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others to do the
| | same.
I will place value on my vision, as well as on the vision
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of others. We
| | are
each on the journey, making our own discoveries--the ones
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that are right
| | for
us today."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange" <acor-@comcast.net>
To: <TA-@topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:29 AM
Subject: [TABI] important Tallahassee commission tonight!!!
| | from today's Democrat:
tallahassee.com
May 12, 2009
Leon County commissioners to consider gas tax
By Will Brown
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
Leon County commissioners will debate this afternoon
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whether to raise the
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pay at the gas pump.
Counties have the option to pass local-option fuel taxes for
transportation
expenses,
which in this case would expand StarMetro service into
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unincorporated
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of the
county and fund the county's Transportation Trust Fund.
Consumers in the county now pay 30 cents per gallon for
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local and state
| | | | taxes, which
is on par with many counties in the region.
"It's sort of like sticker shock," said Jim Smith, president of the
Florida
Petroleum
Marketers & Convenience Store Association. "Look where we
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are today. The
| | | | wholesale
price of gasoline went up 16 cents last week. My members
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reported angry
| | | | customers
- (but the customers are) not realizing we are just as
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angry as they
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and reduced
sales."
An analysis by county staff of the tax hike's feasibility
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found that
| | | | transportation
fund revenues will drop 1.5 percent annually between 2010
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and 2014, while
| | | | transportation
expenditures will grow 3.9 percent during that period.
At 6 p.m. there will be the first of two public hearings
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on revisions to
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county
ordinance regulating the permitting and placement of
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billboards. The
| | | | ordinance is
designed to limit the total inventory of signs in Leon County's
unincorporated area,
and to reduce the number of signs through a
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cap-and-replace method in
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since
2007.
For a sign company to install a new digital billboard, the
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business must
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remove as many as four existing billboards.
According to figures from the Department of Growth & Environmental
Management, there
are 66 existing billboards in the unincorporated area, but
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also signs
| | | | approved but
not yet installed, and unused sign certificates for
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billboards removed.
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puts
the total inventory at approximately 76 signs.
The department estimated in a March 18 memo that the
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billboard inventory
Check out the TABI resource web page at:
http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI/
(be sure and make suggestions)
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