It looks like the hearing for AB 178 has been postponed until January 2010. There are various reasons for this, but I suspect that it’s because it didn’t have enough votes to pass, so the bill’s author, Nancy Skinner, opted to postpone it and fight another day, rather than let the bill fail. Hopefully, the [...]

I just received the following email from Commission Junction regarding the proposed California Internet tax, AB 178, and thought I’d share. I’ve emphasized some of the important parts as it pertains to the fight against this bill.
As you may already know, there are proposed California bills that could require the collection of sales tax for [...]

I’ll admit that I remained willingly ignorant to the Internet tax issue in New York because, well, I don’t live in New York. Apparently, California is looking to implement a similar bill, AB 178, which was introduced earlier this month. Now, my eyes are open.
I won’t get into the specifics about the New York issue [...]

You may recall that, several months ago, we had to switch from Dish to cable TV and ended up going with a bundle from SureWest that included TV, Internet and phone services. We’ve been miserable, until now.
As of yesterday afternoon, we no longer have SureWest, and are now happy (for the most part) AT&T U-verse [...]

Having lived in or around Sacramento almost my entire life, I’ve had experiences with practically every utility company and phone/tv/broadband provider in the area. Until recently we had dish for tv, and AT&T for phone and DSL. We were cruising along nicely, paying a bit more than we should, but we were happy. Then my [...]