With Augusto Pinochet awaiting trial for ordering the killing, torture, and imprisonment of political dissidents during the 1970’s, Chilean politics is back in the news. This is still a sore spot for most every Chilean, and even here in America, any sympathetic mention of either Pinochet or his Marxist predecessor Salvador Allende can provoke some
“About a decade ago, the government realized it could bring income to Mexico’s poor and remote backcountry and moved aggressively to encourage foreign hunting . The federal Environment Ministry set up a program to help ranchers lease land to hunting outfitters and issue hunting permits, and it assigned enforcement officers to regulate the hunters.
A fun article from the Economist on yet another black eye (courtesy of Greenspan)for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Building the American dreamor nightmare?
The City Council of Santa Fe, New Mexico has raised the minimum wage to $9.50 per hour and the fallout was what you would expect: “Managers of some Santa Fe restaurants were mulling price increases and other measures in the wake of Wednesday’s City Council vote to carry out a Jan. 1 increase in the city’s minimum wage. Fewer overtime hours and
In the latest issue of Meeting News, a trade publication for for meeting planners, the front page article talks about the growing problem of finding that your meeting has been placed in a ball room right next door to an “alternative-lifestyle” group of some kind. You’ve planned your insurance industry junket for months, but when you get there, you
Well, after years of raising our taxes through deficit spending, the Bush administration has released a plan to raise our taxes in a variety of other ways. The attack on the mortgage interest deduction is probably the most alarming among them. I thought the CEO of the National Association of Homebuilders pretty well summed it up: “It’s the biggest
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