| 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.
Crossville Aero wants to renew interest in local aviation
It has been over three months since the partnership of Mark Burris and Chris Bennett became the temporary Fixed Base Operator for Crossville Memorial Airport under the name of Crossville Aero.With plans for expanding an already broadened array of services, increasing aviation education opportunities and bringing a new concept to the Upper Cumberlands, the two local businessmen are confidant they are on track to land a permanent contract to run the daily operation of the airport from the city. In the process, they hope to build aviation interest locally while helping the city improve education and relations between the facility and industry and the airport."There is a misconception that you have to be wealthy to learn how to fly," said Burris. "For the price that some people pay for a four-wheeler, a person can take lessons and learn to fly."The two Crossville natives and their business took over operation of the airport after city commission members decided to do away with the long-standing airport committee and manager form of business.
Living at the edge of the world
This place is called Foula, and it is Britain's most remote inhabited island. To get here, you can either catch a small twice-weekly ferry, which in winter is more often than not stuck in what might generously - if not very truthfully - be termed Foula's harbour, or take a tiny eight-seat twin-prop Islander aeroplane that flies whenever the prevailing force eight is kind enough to blast straight up or down, as opposed to across, the homemade landing strip. This does not happen every day. Astonishingly, people live here. It's hard to say exactly how many because they come and go a bit, but at the moment it is 21, 22 or 24, depending on whether you count Magnie Holbourn and his girlfriend, who have been away but appear to have come back, and the baby born four months ago to Amy Ratter and her partner, Wullie.
Alpha Omega Jewelers
Consumers expect to spend up to $600,000 on such things as travel, luxury items, and second homes during retirement, according to a survey by the US division of Sun Life Financial Inc. in Wellesley. Headquartered in Canada, Sun Life provides a wide range of financial services, including retirement products. Titled "The Expense Reality," the survey reveals that while today's retirees are experiencing higher than anticipated expenses, they do not plan on reducing spending on desired activities. "Our research shows most boomers and current retirees know what opportunities they want to explore and what obligations are likely to arise, but do not have a realistic idea of the associated costs," Mary Fay, a Sun Life senior vice president, said in a statement."No one can predict precisely how much income they will need at any given stage in life, which is why retirement income solutions that are flexible and protect against unpredictable and unavoidable factors are so valuable." The report, the company said, is available at this link.
Arizona's film industry shows signs of growth
A new TV show will be using the streets of downtown Phoenix as a stand-in for Los Angeles over the next few weeks, but it wasn't the architecture or the weather that drew it here. The show's producers came for Arizona's entertainment-industry tax incentives, and they're not the only people looking east from Hollywood toward Arizona. TV and film productions spent an estimated $208 million in Arizona in 2007, and 2008 may be an even bigger year. .
Mansion 'mistake' piles the pressure on Barack Obama
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