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You want fries with that?

Over the years, I’ve mused about the price of memberships, and wondered about the wisdom of the corporate number crunchers who insist on keeping the annual fee low and have to be dragged kicking and screaming to a $5 or $10 per year increase.  Some past posts [here] [here] and [here]. Over the years, I [...]

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April 1, 2011 Read the full article →

NYC proposes user fee for FDNY response to auto accidents

You are going to see this debate more and more in the next few years, as cash strapped states and municipalities look for ways to plug the fiscal dykes that threaten to become floods of deficits. Last fall, as the Bloomberg administration grappled with a multibillion dollar budget deficit, the FDNY and the mayor decided [...]

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March 26, 2011 Read the full article →

Need a tow? There’s an app for that…

A few news items this month about the move to use devices other than VHF radios to summon help. The popularity of smart phones means even more assistance requests will come via cell phones and other discrete communications. Up first is the announcement from Boat/US of a new smart phone app for Android and iPhone: [...]

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January 22, 2011 Read the full article →

Locksmiths see police service as competition

Locksmiths see police service as competition. …area locksmiths were taken aback last week when North Charleston police announced plans to start opening locked cars doors for the public free of charge with a new gadget known as The Big Easy. Police bought 18 of the devices… Well, I guess we’re not the only industry that [...]

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November 25, 2010 Read the full article →

Man sentenced to 50 months, fined $57,308 for intentional sinking

Now, this is the kind of publicity that might get you some more derelict disposal work. Guess it would have cost less than $57,308. to hire a professional to legally dispose of this boat. A Cheboygan, Mich., mariner has been sentenced to 50 months in custody as a result of having been found guilty on [...]

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November 21, 2010 Read the full article →

“No Pay, No Spray” heats up fee based rescue debate.

Have you heard the story of the Gene Cranick of Obion County, TN whose mobile home burned to the ground while firefighters from the city of South Fulton stood by and refused to extinguish the fire because Cranick hadn’t paid the annual $75 fire protection fee? If you somehow missed this story last week, you [...]

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October 15, 2010 Read the full article →

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