Archive for July 26th, 2011

Your City of Bell update.

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

The city decided to part ways with Pedro Carrillo as he proposed a tough new set of budget cuts aimed at holding off insolvency, including leaving executive positions unfilled, eliminating the three highest-ranking police officers in the city and requiring employees to pay for half of their retirement.

(I know the linked article makes it sound like his contract expired. But this article calls it a resignation, and includes his resignation letter.)

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You know what Mexico needs?

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

(This is taken mostly verbatim from a conversation with Lawrence.)

  • Law and order
  • Paved roads
  • A lack of a drug war
  • Better sushi
  • Big-budget movies with lots of special effects
  • A better economy
  • Crime writers
  • Crime writers who haven’t been executed by cartels
  • A gun in every home
  • Stronger gun control…in the prisons.

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Doug Winner, call your office, please.

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Emmis Communications owns a bunch of Austin radio stations. Their holdings include KGSR, which specializes in local and Texas music, news talk station KLBJ, and KROX-FM (aka 101X).

Emmis just paid the FCC $12,000 to settle accusations that KROX-FM was involved in a “payola” scheme…

…that netted one of its hosts “valuable consideration” from a music store, a live music venue, a booking agent and a band manager.

The Statesman story is curiously short on details about the host, music store, live music venue, booking agent, and band manager who were involved. A Google search didn’t turn up much more information, but it did turn up a copy of the consent decree.

(Hattip.)

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