The SF Weekly (owned by Village Voice Media) and the San Francisco Bay Guardian have been engaged in a bitter antitrust dispute. The Bay Guardian argues that the Weekly was selling ads below cost in an attempt to drive the Bay Guardian out of business. So far, the Bay Guardian has prevailed, and has a $21 million judgment against the Weekly. Now, the Bay Guardian has an order awarding it half of the Weekly‘s ad revenue. (Hattip: Jimbo.)
I wanted to point out this blog post at the Public Policy In Houston blog because it expresses concisely my thoughts about public transit, and about the people who complain about America’s “love of cars”. We talk about the freedom cars give us, and that’s true; but cars also give us time. Time with our families, time to go to school, time to improve our lives. (Hattip: BlogHouston.)
On the local front, Travis County terminated their agreement with the operator of the Manchaca firehall.
And our police chief, Art Acevedo, is one of six finalists for the job of chief in Dallas. Even though he’s just a finalist at this point, the city is offering him money to stay. I’ll just point out that you may remember Chief Acevedo from previous coverage on this blog.
The various stories about the 10th anniversary of the dot-com peak didn’t amuse me that much, but I did get a kick out of this piece on the founders of Flooz. You remember Flooz, right? It was just like money, except harder to use. (ETA: I forgot that I was going to single out this quote: “In late 1999, Beenz and Flooz announced that consumers could buy Flooz with Beenz…” But was it transitive? Could you buy Beenz with Flooz? Nope.)
Merlin Olsen, for the record.