| 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.
OIA receives go-ahead to charge new rental-car tax
It's about to get more expensive to rent a car at Orlando International Airport.
Board members of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, the agency that runs OIA, voted Wednesday to adopt a $2.50-a-day tax on car rentals. The "customer facility charge," which would be capped at five days, could add as much as $12.50 to a customer's bill.
Backers said the tax will raise money for $102.6 million worth of rental-car upgrades planned at the airport during the next few years, including additional parking spaces, fueling stations and car-wash bays.
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What gives? New series 'Oprah's Big Give'
The new ABC reality series doesn't just push emotional buttons, it pummels them and doesn't let up for one second of the hour. Attaching Oprah's name, the most revered brand in TV, and having her make cameo appearances in addition to the push she'll give it on her daytime program, is overkill.
Think Extreme Makeover: Home Edition with a dash of The Apprentice. Ten people, broken into two-person teams in the pilot, scatter about the country helping worthy people in dire need. Every one of the hearts-and-flowers sagas is designed to bring tears to your eyes. This show could sell more tissues than flu season.
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Students raise $7,050 to bring Freedom Writers to schools
At first, some at Lincoln Southeast High School were skeptical.Do you really think you can raise $6,000 to bring two of the original Freedom Writers to speak here?Undeterred, Paul Smith, Jodi Gehr and their students sent letters to businesses, held fund raisers and sold T-shirts. .
Firefox 3 beta is live
The Mozilla Corporation has released a beta version of Firefox 3 for download, but is warning it is not ready for "casual users" yet. You can get the browser here. It's available in 30 languages and claims several new features and improvements. .
Virginia Snedecker artwork on view at Morris Museum
When Taylor returned, he and Snedecker quickly had two children, and moved first to Brooklyn and then to Ridgefield, where she gave up painting. The demands of raising kids, she said, made working at her art impossible. Snedecker was taught by Kenneth Hayes Miller, who also taught Edward Hopper, and there is something of both male artists in her work -- the genre themes, blond tones and sharply simplified planes of color are reminiscent of many American Scene painters of the day. Where Snedecker differs most from Hopper is in her Renaissance-like devotion to a clear and deep perspectival space in which multiple figures are clearly delineated to establish dynamic, puzzle-fit relationships with one another. .
MTN Milking Ghanaians Excessively
South Africa has one of the uppermost costs for mobile network operations in Africa, if not in the world. It is therefore not surprising that in less than six months after the takeover, the Ghana Government is asking Ghanaians to pay tax on talk time on the networks. MTN, being the principal mobile service provider in Ghana, is in league with the Ghana government is now positioned to milk Ghanaians for their selfish interest. I am aware that MTN was sent packing in a country within the sub-region. It is for this reason that in any country where the leadership cares about the welfare of its citizenry, they will do a diligent work by insisting on ‘value for money'. But in the case of Ghana, what matters most is the percentage the Minister, under whose orbit the operation falls, is going to get is of utmost importance.
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