Check out this little ray of sunshine from Bloomberg (the news service, not the mayor):
Candidates Ignore $1.35 Trillion Minimum Tax `Bomb'
By Ryan J. Donmoyer
Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Congressional candidates this fall are furiously debating Iraq, Medicare and extending tax cuts. Most are staying quiet about an imminent legislative challenge: how to stop a tax increase that will hit more than 20 million households next year, some with incomes as low as $50,000.
The rest is here.
UPDATED WITH TCA NON-RESPONSE RESPONSE; BLOOMBERG REPORT...If the posting times are correct, The Orange County Register (9:40 a.m.) beat the Los Angeles Times (10:03 a.m.) in getting the news out that the U.S. Department of Commerce had announced it would uphold the state Coastal Commission's rejection of the plan to extend the 241 Foothill-South toll road through San Onofre State Park and perilously close to Trestles beach.Jane C. Luxton, general counsel of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmos
Two corporations doing business in Irvine that are the subjects of a noteworthy/notorious whistleblower's fraud investigations have now apparently drawn the attention of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The SEC is reviewing whether James Peterson, CEO of Irvine-based defense industry computer chip maker Microsemi Corp., misled investors when he denied making up his college degrees, reports Bloomberg. The same consumer group that outed Peterson now says it is cluing in the SEC to alleg
The OC Weekly--as in ORANGE COUNTY Weekly--plot for Los Angeles media market domination has been slow to achieve but persistent, as evidenced by the impressive showing Weeklings make on the Los Angeles Press Club's list of finalists for the 51st annual SoCal Journalism Awards.Winners will be announced June 14 at the "newly renovated" Sheraton Universal hotel. Which means several of us will be consulting MapQuest between now and June 14. Most certainly MapQuesting will be Daffodil J. Altan, who i
A-Rod or A-Hole?Since it's now obvious there will be no freeway series (hey, Angels and Dodgers, here's an idea: bring your bats next time), the time has come to move beyond the brutal losses suffered by our soon-to-be-exiting home teams and concentrate on the really important stuff.
Like, which city is filled with more assholes, Philadelphia or New York?
Hey, it's an important consideration to remember while you avoid the pain that will come from watching the Phillies and Yan
