Zen and the art of rave maintenance
With action momentarily stalled on Orlando’s anti-rave ordinance, all eyes and dancing feet turn west this weekend – not toward Tampa, where media reports of rampant drug use helped fuel last spring’s imposition of a statewide crackdown on late-night dancing in liquor-licensed clubs, but to Polk County, where an event is taking place that proves…
Amway’s in on federal tax code
It was the second largest political contribution on record: $1 million to the Republican National Committee, from Amway President and Orlando Magic owner Rich DeVos on April 2. The largest? $1.5 million, in October, 1994. From Amway. Even as congressional hearings illuminate the corrupting effect of such “soft money” on Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, as…
Eagles fail federal crash test
In the single-minded doublespeak of the Federal Aviation Administration, birds have become “hazardous wildlife” and wetlands targeted as dreaded “wildlife attractants.”Neither is recommended within two miles of areas of airports where jets are being moved, unloaded or parked, or within five miles of lands below departure and arrival paths. With Advisory Circular150/5200-33, the FAA seems…
Common Cents approach
The latest issue of the trade publication covering the campaign-consulting business features an article by the consultants advising the campaign organized in support of Orange County’s proposed 1-cent sales-tax hike. “The ramifications of mail-in ballots and early voting on campaign resources (are) incredible,” say Steve Welchert and John Britz in the August 1997 article in…
Bomb tests a real pain in the thyoid
Remember the classic, late-night ad that ran on cable TV, featuring an elderly woman sprawled on the floor, saying: “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”? Well, tragically, tens of thousands of Americans can’t get up, because of something that fell on them from the sky: radioactive iodine. During the ’50s and ’60s, atomic-bomb…
