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The Legislature should reach fast conclusions about a proposed sales tax break on modular homes, especially to help reconstruction in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast counties.
Barbour has set a special session for noon Thursday, and he seeks a sales tax reduction on modular home materials from 7 percent to 3 percent.
The Coast needs up to 100,000 new residences to replace homes destroyed or irreparably damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Modular homes are partially assembled off-site, shipped and assembled on residential property. They are widely viewed as at least a partial and faster remedy in the home replacement market.
An earlier special session adjourned without passing the modular home tax reduction, with House of Representatives leaders saying the needed more time to fully analyze the proposal and its budget impact.
Slone Chiropractic Clinic PC (chiropractor); licensee same, 909 Hioaks Road, #H, Richmond 23225. Angels Healthcare Inc. (employment agency); licensee same, 3900 Monument Ave., Suite B, Richmond 23230. Genesis HRT LLC (restaurant); licensee same, 219 E. Clay St., Richmond 23219. River City Properties (real estate developer); licensee Lynwood Chambers, 3203 Edgewood Ave., Richmond 23222. Property Management Services Virginia Inc. (contractor); licensee same, 621 N. 3rd St., Richmond 23219. HBPB2 LLC (used car dealer/towing motor vehicles); licensee same, 820 W. Broad St., Richmond 23220. Chippenham & Johnston Willis Sport Med. (physician); licensee CJW Sports Medicine LLC, 500 Hioaks Road, Suite A, Richmond 23225. Rainbow #1729 (retail merchant); licensee Fashion Gallery Inc., 4010 Hull Street Road, Richmond 23224.
The recently introduced Registered Agricultural Contractor scheme has been well received with over 20 Rural Contractors signing up for the process in the first three weeks. RACF Executive Director Roger Parton said that the uptake was steady and he expected it to continue at that pace foe sometime. “This is the start of the busy season and contractors’ thoughts are elsewhere at the moment” he said. “However as the farming and lifestyle communities come to understand the benefits of engaging contractors who have been through a registration process, the rate should pick up”. Contractors seeking to become registered simply apply to the Federation, by phone (0508 787 253) email (Roger[at]rural-contractors.org.nz or download the form from www.rural-contractors.org.nz.
CONSTRUCTION firm Leighton Holdings Ltd is taking a wait-and-see approach to any possible bid for infrastructure and engineering group Downer EDI Ltd. "The company (Downer EDI) is very fortunate to have a large balance sheet and surplus cash and we’re always looking at opportunities," Leighton’s chief executive Wal King said. "We do have a small shareholding in that company and we’ll see how events unfold in the future." Mr King added that many of the opportunities currently available are "highly priced". "We continue to say that unless the opportunities make strategic and commercial sense we’re not interested in pursuing it for some obscure reason," he said. After intense market speculation leading to a sharp rise in its shareprice, Downer EDI this week issued a statement to the market saying it had received no takeover approaches.
This is the first time I've attended the funeral of a worker killed on the job. I write about such tragedies all the time. I write about preventing such tragedies. by Sandy Smith I rarely write about the tears on the faces of the family members, friends and co-workers as they say their last goodbyes. If I'm going to be completely honest with you, I don't like to think about those tears. I came face-to-face with those tears today. For people working in downtown Cleveland on Sept. 6, it nearly was impossible not to attend the funeral of this particular worker. You see, the death of Cleveland Police Detective Jonathan "A.J." Schroeder made headlines when he was shot and killed attempting to arrest a suspect in a rape and aggravated robbery on Cleveland's near-West side, not far from where I live.
When Olajide Timothy escaped from Lafenwa Police, in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, where he was held for an alleged burglary and robbery, he may have thought that he was smart. Now he is in a deeper mess as the police have re-arrested him.
Olajide, an alleged notorious handsets thief and armed robbery who terrorized people of Abeokuta, had escaped from the Divisional Police headquarters, Lanfenwa, Abeokuta.
According to the Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Police Command, Mr. Olufemi Awoyale, a deputy superintendent of police, the suspect was arrested following allegation that he robbed people he carried on a commercial motorcycle.
He said a policeman in mufti had arrested the suspect, adding: "After a search was conducted at Timothy's hide-out, police recovered another motorcycle, engine and spare parts of motorcycles, various handsets as well as a booklet of receipts stolen from one of the shops burgled by the suspect and one of his accomplices."
Olajide, who confessed to the crime, told Daily Sun that he and his friend now at large burgled some shops around Lafenwa and stole various handsets.
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