| Local Gas Station Charging Over $4 Per Gallon Near OIA
ORLANDO, Fla. -- There was a break for the holidays, but gas prices are ready to rise again. One local gas station, though, is already charging customers much more than others. RAW INTERVIEW: Manager Defends $4.49 Per Gallon Customers at the independent gas station near the Orlando International Airport are paying $4.49 a gallon. Some of the customers don't know the price they're paying until it's too late. There are no large signs showing the prices at the station. Most customers are tourists returning rental cars before catching flights at Orlando International Airport. Not all believe it's an honorable way to conduct business. "It's not fair. It's definitely price gouging during the holiday season," said tourist Les Lazarus. Even at $4.49 a gallon for regular, most of the pumps were busy at Suncoast Energys on Friday morning.
Hillary Clinton's 'kitchen-sink' campaign pays off
With no margin for mistake, she had to do what she had been unable to do previously: make Barack Obama mortal.
Before the critical primaries in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday, her campaign had vowed to throw the "kitchen sink" at Obama to derail the momentum that had led to wins in 11 straight contests.
She honored that vow. It paid off in Ohio, where she won a clear victory but probably not a huge number of additional delegates. It also paid off in Texas, where she won narrowly in the popular vote.
Her strategy was built on a foundation of contradiction.
Clinton opposed the trade agreement that was considered a signature achievement of her husband's presidency.
She shed her serious side and mugged on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show" to change her image.
Chris Matthews: GOP Candidates Want to Kill Bugs Bunny
Bush shot an endangered bird back in 1994, Matthews played the Bugs Bunny card: “So do Republican voters really believe that using a big gun to kill small varmints really makes someone more qualified to be President of the United States? It all reminds me of Bugs Bunny and good old Elmer Fudd." For viewers who might not get the reference, Matthews showed a clip of Elmer Fudd pointing his gun at Bugs: “Now I got you! You're a dead wabbit!" Matthews then turned to Newsweek's Howard Fineman: “Howard, getting back to Huckabee, he told a reporter that he loved to bag squirrels because he fried 'em up and ate 'em with biscuits and a Coca-Cola. What have we come to! What's with the hardware and the gunplay here?" Fineman cautiously replied, “Uh, limited regional appeal, I would say, on the biscuits.
A Look at Lederach Golf Club
Good luck trying to find a straight putt at Lederach. Accordingly, the course keeps the Stimp reading around 9 to 9.5 to bring that contour into play. Instead of your 10-foot putt sliding 8 feet straight past the hole, at Lederach you'll have a 10-footer with 3 feet of break and a 5-foot comebacker that breaks a foot. .
Local group's bid to save Sonics up to Olympia
A high-powered local ownership group says its $300 million plan to renovate KeyArena could convince the NBA to keep the Sonics in Seattle. Now all they have to do is convince state lawmakers to approve the idea before they adjourn next week. .
CPO Forum: Execs Forecast Certified Sales' Importance in Coming Year
CARY, N.C. — As experts project 2008 new-vehicle sales to come in at a lower level than the last several years, used vehicles, particularly of the certified category, are expected to take on even more importance for dealers in the coming year. "The current projections for 2008 new-vehicle sales industry wide are about 16 million cars and trucks, but the used-vehicle side is forecast at about 42 million units, two-thirds of which will be sold by franchised and non-franchised dealers," according to Mark Mathews, of General Motors. So, what better way to stay ahead of the competition than to learn the latest about the certified market at the upcoming CPO Forum to be held April 7 to 9 at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn, Mich.? "Auto Remarketing does its best to help dealers stay successful in a challenging marketplace by offering the latest news and bringing leading experts together to discuss market challenges and ways to overcome them," highlighted Bill Zadeits, conference co-chair.
Univision Battle With Televisa Places Programs in Jeopardy
Jerrold Perenchio, and the late Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, who felt he got a bad deal in 1992 when the two men negotiated the original contract. If the Mexican company, Grupo Televisa, wins and pulls its programming, Univisions enterprise value could be chopped by more than $1 billion. The lawsuit centers on a program license agreement, or PLA, between Televisa, the dominant broadcaster in Mexico, and L.A.s Univision, the dominant Spanish-language TV network in the U.S. and owner of KMEX-TV (Channel 34) in Westchester. The agreement gives Univision the exclusive right to air Televisa shows in the United States. If Televisa were allowed to pull its popular Spanish-language telenovela programs from Univision, the company says it could sell the shows to other groups for much more money.
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