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<p>Tucked within an analysis of this year's state budget by the California Legislative Analyst's Office are some facts that will hardly surprise most California drivers. Between 1998 and 2004, the state government reduced pavement-maintenance spending (adjusted for inflation) by 39 percent. Caltrans repaved only 1,000 lane miles this budget year, compared to 3,850 lane miles in 2000-01.</p>

Jim Robinson is taking his supporters for a huge ride. Even though he's using this ancient perl/CGI format(that has changed 3 times in 6 years), there's no way in hell it costs $260,000 a year to run FreeRepublic unless Robinson is paying himself and his family at least $225,000 a year. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/budget Monthly Expenses Bandwidth $2,700 Technical Services 4,000 Administrative 7,500 Legal Expenses 3,000 Estimated Bank Fees, Insurance, Office Expenses, Maintenance and Repairs, Supplies, Travel, misc. 2,200 $2700 a month for bandwidth? What, he has his own dedicated T1/T3 lines? $48,000 a year for "Technical Services?" You could hire three...

<p>LIQUID Gold: According to local beer industry sources, the Mets' and Yanks' concessionaires purchase half-kegs in bulk for approximately $29 per half-keg, roughly half the cost charged to bars and restaurants. Each half-keg holds 1,984 ounces, or 124 16-ounce servings. So, if the teams sell 16-ounce servings for about $6.50, which they do, the profit over the initial purchase price of each half-keg begins when the fifth beer is sold and that profit, per half-keg, is nearly $800.</p>

"....The higher cost of refining gasoline to meet stricter regulations, coupled with higher crude oil prices, pushed the average nationwide cost to $1.5841 per gallon Friday, analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday...."

NO SALES TAX HIKE! End of Campaign "Get Out The Vote Rally" THIS Saturday, November 2nd - 10 AM at Burke Lake Park - Rain or Shine. "This is it, this is the last big anti-tax event prior to Election Day, and we thank the Virginia Young Republicans for taking the lead and hosting this event for all of NOVA's anti-tax groups," said James Parmelee, Chairman of the Northern Virginia Republican Political Action Committee about the 14TH ANNUAL YOUNG REPUBLICAN ROUNDUP - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd at BURKE LAKE PARK. The official "Triathlon of Virginia Politics" tradition continues for the 14th...

HELSINKI, FINLAND – April 14, 2002 — Looking at Anssi Vanjoki's speeding ticket, many Finns are wondering whether their egalitarian spirit has taken them over the edge. True, Vanjoki was doing 46.5 mph in a 30-mph zone. But $103,000?The reason the penalty was so harsh is that traffic fines in Finland are based not just on the severity of the offense, but on the offender's income. Vanjoki is a senior executive of Nokia, the world's largest cell phone maker, and his fine was assessed on a 1999 income of $5.2 million.A court later slashed it to $5,245, but not...