Sportress of Blogitude (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Dallas police are going to have to deal with a whole bunch of hookers invading their town in the coming months due to the NBA All-Star Game in February and when Super Bowl XLV is played in the fine Texas city in 2011. Why? Because whores are a transient population and often drag their skanky [...]
The San Antonio Business Journal (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A group of 170 Texas cities have won a $20 million verdict in a class-action lawsuit in San Antonio against online hotel booking companies in the alleged failure to pay hotel occupancy taxes.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Texas cities to share $20 million in federal lawsuit over Internet, hotel occupancy taxes
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A group of online travel services companies plans to appeal a $20 million verdict awarded to more than 170 Texas cities in a dispute over hotel occupancy taxes. The 2006 class-action lawsuit was brought by cities wanting to collect tourism tax revenue they... Lawsuit - Tax - Texas - Law - Legal Information
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A group of online travel services companies plans to appeal a $20 million verdict awarded to more than 170 Texas cities in a dispute over hotel occupancy taxes.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
SAN ANTONIO -- A group of online travel services companies plans to appeal a $20 million verdict awarded to more than 170 Texas cities in a dispute over hotel occupancy taxes.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A group of online travel services companies plans to appeal a $20 million verdict awarded to more than 170 Texas cities in a dispute over hotel occupancy taxes.
The Dallas Business Journal (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A group of 170 Texas cities, including several in North Texas, have won a $20 million verdict in a class-action lawsuit in San Antonio against online hotel booking companies that a jury found failed to pay hotel occupancy taxes.
NewsWatch: Energy (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
On Friday OSHA said it was issuing a record $87 million in fines against BP for both new safety concerns and ongoing disputes over the settlement agreement it reached with BP over the deadly 2005 blast at the Texas City...
Caymanian Compass (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) Occupational Safety and Health Administration imposed a record $87 million fine against oil giant BP PLC for failing to correct safety hazards after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers at its Texas City refinery.
RadarOnline.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
The town of Marfa, Texas has had just about enough of Evi and Randy Quaid . The West Texas city of 2,100 once found the Quaids eccentric; now many of the locals would be happy to see them gone. Marfa is joined in its feelings about the Quaids by the folks of Santa Barbara, CA where there are warrants out for the couples' arrest for defrauding a hotel of over $10,000 in services....
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | yesterday
What about criminal charges? When the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced it was proposing $87 million in fines against BP’s Texas City refinery, many worried the latest government action would force the company to shut down. Even Texas City’s mayor suggested it was a possibility. The administration announced Oct. 30 it had found 270 instances...
The PETA Files (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
For more than two decades, Odessa Animal Control has sold homeless cats to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) for use in painful intubation exercises. A spokesperson for Odessa Animal Control has stated, "We don't have a problem with [selling cats to TTUHSC]. … We don't ask any questions." If Odessa Animal Control did ask questions, it would learn that...
Bed and Breakfast Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Southeast Texas Record Expedia Eliminates Phone ChargeNew York TimesExpedia, the large online travel agency, is eliminating its $20 booking fee for travel reservations made by phone. …Expedia.com Eliminates Travel Booking Fees for Phone OrdersCNNMoney.com (press release)Online travel industry claims win despite jury award to Texas citiesLegal News LineExpedia eliminates...
Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
“We continue to believe we are in full compliance with the settlement agreement, and we look forward to demonstrating that before the review commission,” Texas City Refinery Manager Keith Casey said in a statement. BP’s process-safety performance, he added, has been among the “most strenuous and comprehensive that the refining industry has ever seen.”
