Taxation level not our problem
We now interrupt Alanis Morissette for today’s Editor’s Notebook.
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My final word on the Central Okanagan School District awarding themselves pay raises in order to compensate for loss of income after losing its one-third, tax-free status perk.
(This issue, by the way, is expected to come before Penticton City Council in the new year.)
I’ve had a lot of job interviews in my lifetime and there was even a time when I was rapidly promoted to larger newspapers. I was very fortunate to have worked for three different companies in a two-year period.
Never have I had an employer or a prospective employer determine my salary based on my level of taxation. I’m offered ‘X’ number of dollars annually. Should the salary offer move me into a higher tax bracket, that’s my problem — not my employers.
Why are elected officials any different from the rest of us?
I also think that if we pay school board trustees, why are the Parent Advisory Council presidents and District PAC presidents not also paid?
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Thank you to the readers of
magazine for recognizing my colleagues Steve MacNaull and Ron Seymour as the No. 1 and No. 2 “best writers” in the Central Okanagan.
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Janet Jackson, is a brilliant pop and R&B artist, but certainly not rock-and-roll.
“Black Cat” is the only song in her repertoire I’d consider rock. And, for someone who has been around since the early 1980s, her catalogue is relatively small in comparison to the rock artists of the 1970s who averaged an album per year.
I say this because Janet’s among the latest inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which now recognizes pop music.
But, I do find the line, “No my first name ain’t baby, it’s Janet ... Miss Jackson if you’re nasty,” to be irresistible.
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Some wise guy commented on our Facebook page about the forthcoming Corey Hart concert writing: “I wear by bifocals at night.”
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I wish the Baseball Hall of Fame would finally show some love for Joe Carter. A five-time all-star, 396 home runs, including one of the greatest clutch hits in Major League Baseball history (the 1993 World Series), and superb character both on and off the field — but it wasn’t enough to garner more than five votes.
With Hall of Fames, on one end of the pendulum is ice hockey where the standard is too easy to get accepted, but on the opposite side is baseball, which is nearly impossible to gain entrance to.
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There’s quite the peeing match going on right now in Kelowna where the new visitor centre is apparently counting people who stop in to use the washroom as an official visit. Some believe that’s deceptive. I offer a better solution.
If the person walking into the washroom has something to read with them in their hand — a newspaper or Tom Clancy novel, for example — count that person as a visitor, because they’re going to be staying longer than 45 seconds.
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“An old man turned ninety-eight, he won the lottery and died the next day.”