San Diego County officials are asking for one quarter of the $1.9 billion in statewide road bond money approved by California voters for key projects like new border crossings and bridges for trucks at the port.

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The Answer Spot addresses your post-Hurricane Katrina questions. To submit a question, send it to insurance@timespicayune.com. I’d like to know what the law is when it comes to getting compensated from the Road Home for Hurricane Katrina damage.

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As a federal ban on discriminatory and access taxes on the Internet approaches a Nov. 1 expiration date, Congress is once again embroiled in a question that comes up every three or four years:  To what degree does the Internet merit special federal protection from state and local tax collectors?

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The BBC has released a public beta of its own software application for watching video online, hoping to engage younger people who are consuming more and more of their content over the Internet.

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Telecommunications experts believe du’s new fixed line Call Select service, which utilises a customer’s existing landline, will form the basis for a number of the firm’s other products, reported Gulf News. Walaa Hazem of HC Securities and Investment in Cairo said the new offering will provide the basis for du’s broadband Internet services for home and business users.

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Quorum Productions, a south Florida-based television production company, is launching the newest addition to its successful line-up of programs created to educate, empower and entertain the American public. World Business Digest will air nationwide this Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 6:30 am. In each program, the show offers business executives an in-depth look at the latest strategies, products and …

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The movement against Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s plan to make more money off New Jersey-owned properties such as toll roads - possibly by increasing highway tolls - is taking off. And the resistance isn’t limited to Republicans.

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vCards carry vital directory information that would never fit on a traditional black-ink-on-white-stock business card. Some examples are: –Name, addresses (business, home, mailing, parcel), telephone numbers (home, business, fax, pager, cellular, ISDN, voice, data, video), e-mail addresses and Internet URLs (Universal Resource Locators).

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Principals in the Houston Independent School District have some advice for Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra: Tell employees to answer their phones. Make the special education department more responsive. And ask the bond office to stop making excuses.

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For the 22 business days ending July 12, sales for all types of Orange County home sales decreased 26.1 percent. The median sales price increased .2 percent. The median is where half the homes sold for more and half for less.

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