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Archive for September 18th, 2005
Sunday, September 18, 2005 Could the San Francisco Bay Area Survive The Big One? By Dave Berns "Regional planners project that the refineries ringing northern Contra Costa County could erupt, wildfires could rip through the lush Marin forestlands, and Delta levees could crumble, flooding every town from Rio Vista to Sacramento," writes The San Francisco Chronicle.
"Hospitals and morgues would be so overwhelmed with up to 6,000 dead and 30,000 injured that [...]
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Sunday, September 18, 2005 Buyer Beware: Flooded Gulf Coast Vehicles Could Be Resold By Dave Berns Thousands of vehicles damaged in Hurricane Katrina could be thrust onto the country's resale market, reports The Associated Press.
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Sunday, September 18, 2005 Column About Racial Profiling At Airport Security Leads to Firing of College Journalist By Dave Berns A University of North Carolina student was fired from the college newspaper for writing the following column for the publication. What are your thoughts about airport security?
It's Sad, But Racial Profiling is Necessary for Our Safety (Click Here to Read Full Column.)
By Jillian Bandes
September 13, 2005
I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and [...]
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Sunday, September 18, 2005 Tax Benefits to Donating Vacation Time to Katrina Victims By Dave Berns "If you want to give to hurricane relief but worry that you couldn't take a tax deduction because you don't itemize, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Mark W. Everson has a deal for you: Donate vacation time and you'll get a tax benefit no matter how you file your return," writes today's Los Angeles Times. (Registration [...]
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Sunday, September 18, 2005 Mortgage Lenders Ripped for Practices By Dave Berns "The new loans — some with initial 'teaser' interest rates as low as 1 percent — have allowed millions of Americans to buy houses or take equity out of their homes," writes today's Los Angeles Times. (Registration required. No fee.)
"But bank regulators, industry analysts and consumer advocates increasingly fear that a large number [...]
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Sunday, September 18, 2005 Bureaucracy At All Levels Continues to Slow Katrina Recovery By Dave Berns "With little guidance from federal and state governments — and no single person or entity in charge of the overall operation — cities and counties have been left on their own to find survivors homes, schools, jobs and health care. A patchwork of policies has resulted, causing relief agencies to sometimes work at cross-purposes," writes [...]
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Sunday, September 18, 2005 Money Made From Airlines' Woes By Dave Berns "Take General Electric for example — the mother of all plays on continuing chaos in the skies. Not only does GE build the high-margin jet engines that keep planes aloft, it also leases planes to airlines, and then finances the bankruptcy process when the carriers go bust," reads a column in The New York Post. [...]
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