10.30.06
Publisher funds anti-abortion measure
Jim Holman publishes the San Diego Reader — the third largest alternative weekly in the country. The paper is fat with ads for cosmetic surgery, Brazilian waxing and Chippendales performances. But ads for family planning and sex hot lines — usually mainstays in free weeklies — are banned.
Source: www.contracostatimes.com
Google Video Making Moves on Ad Front
Google Video launched a new service Monday to help viral video creators make money via advertising and also lured a pair of high-profile Web video creators to Google Video for an exclusive run.
Source: www.tvweek.com
Letters to the editor
Who is most qualified to be our next sheriff in Thurston County? Dan Kimball has said he is most proud of the programs the sheriff’s department has been doing, and when he is sheriff he does not see changing much.
Source: www.theolympian.com
Back to Bucharest 26/10/06
BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on Bucharest’s response to the UK’s curbs on workers from Bulgaria and Romania.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Former water park revisited 10-30-2006
Miss Lopez, 33, a lifelong Plainview resident, fondly remembers spending most of her summers at Family Fun Park. The remains of the large water slide, its once bright colors now faded, and other remnants left from the park still cause flashbacks on Fifth Street.
Source: www.myplainview.com