4 Comments - Leroy - Thursday, May 4, 06 @ 6:26 am: >Soda distributors to end most school sales So instead of the schools profitting from the sales of junk food, the 7-11 across the street from the high school will. And they say public education is fighting privatization…profit margin at the 7-11 is probably higher, too. - Mr . Ethics - Thursday, May 4, 06 @ 8:25 am: Are speeding tickets written to enforce safety on the roads or as a profit center? If officers start writting tickets as a source of additional revenue as incentive, that’s just wrong. - Gish - Thursday, May 4, 06 @ 9:36 am: Many tickets written are already based on a certain ‘quota’ of enforcement already. It is doubtful that any individual officer will increase the amount of tickets written for some increased revenue of which he/she will probably not even see any benefit. What might result is less ‘discretion’ at the hands of officers. They may write tickets in place of verbal/written warnings but if you violate then it is your own fault anyway. I just wish they’d tack the increase on ticket fines and not on supervision costs. Repeat offenders have a tougher time getting supervision in the first place. They are the ones who need to be nailed. - Newshound - Thursday, May 4, 06 @ 11:38 am: Gidwitz gets $95.2 million for Picasso at auction… http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/arts/design/04sotheby.html?hp&ex=1146801600&en=30cf54c8c3a06a94&ei=5094&partner=homepage Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.