Washington Dulles airport won’t be getting rail access any time soon, as a special tax to finance the measure was unanimously voted down. The transit tax district, which would have imposed a 20 percent real estate tax increase on commercial properties along the train route, was to have generated Fairfax County’s share of the project’s cost. But the Town Council’s rejection of the tax district in Herndon, on a 6 to 0 vote, effectively kills the tax district across the county and opens a $540 million hole in the financing scheme designed by state and local leaders. More than $38 million has been spent just to plan the 23 miles of rail. Property owners along the proposed rail line were being asked to foot the project bill, even though many of them would never see…
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for December 2003.
250 Starwood points
Starwood has a survey good for 250 points. (As posted on Flyertalk.com)
Diners Club conversion bonus
Through January 15th you can a 30% bonus when converting Diners Club points into United Mileage Plus miles.
Troubleshooter in Trouble
Travel writer Christopher Elliott has been sacked from his USAToday.com column. Elliott suggests it was because he was too critical of USAirways.The item of greatest note to me is that his firing was not simply for being critical to USAirways (an advertiser) in his online column that USAToday.com was paying for but also for what he wrote about USAirways on his blog.USAToday.com’s editor-in-chief cites content from Mr. Elliott’s blog as a basis for charges underlying his dismissal: Moreover, with your commentary appearing in other forums (for example your Nov. 25 blog item on USAirways), the potential of an appearance of conflict is almost unavoidable. I’ll leave it to the journalism profs and ethicists to comment further. Although the blogosphere may have something to say about this one.
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