E-mail: yvonne@tdoa.state.tx.us Texas Department on Aging 4900 North Lamar, 4th Floor Austin, TX 78751-2316 Phone: (512)424-6840; (800) 252-9240 (Toll Free) Web: http://www.tdoa.state.tx.us/index.htm AARP Texas 98 San Jacinto Boulevard, Suite 750 Austin, TX 78701 Phone: (512) 480-9797 Fax: (512) 480-9799 Web: http://www.aarp.org/states/tx ADA Regional ADA & IT Technical Assistance Center Disability Law Resource Project 2323 South Shepard Boulevard, Suite 1000 Houston, TX 77019 Phone:… [read post]

August 14, 2009The silent treatmentBy Joe FriesenFrom Saturday's Globe and MailMackel Peterkin was no gangster. [read post]

You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of… [read post]

Table of Contents Key Findings Introduction Review of State and Local Car Rental Excise Taxes — How Rental Car Taxes and Fees Work — How Rental Car Excise Tax Revenue Is Used Economic and Tax Policy Consequences of Rental Car Excise Taxes — Economic Incidence of Car Rental Excise Taxes — Tax Exporting — Car Rental Excise Taxes and Tax Policy Rental Car Taxes and Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing — Developments in the State Taxation of Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing —… [read post]