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Thursday, July 6, 2006

Spelling Mansion May Be Put on Market

Despite denials by those involved, speculation persists that Candy Spelling, the widow of the recently deceased TV mogul Aaron Spelling, is planning to place the family’s famous 56,500-square-foot Holmby Hills mansion on the market. The price for the 45-room, six-acre property? According to one gossip Web site: $150 million.

Los Angeles Times

In case you want to run some comps, that’s about $2,650 per square foot (discounting the land value). Or more than $3 million a room.

Click to see the aerial view.

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Filed under Economics & Business on July 6, 2006

Speaking of which

Notice that tax increase this past week my fellow Bernalillo countians?

Yup, the sales tax in the county (actually a gross receipts tax) went up .125% on July 1. The increase is to pay for the West Side jail.

The new rate in the county is 5.6875%. The new rate in the city is 6.875%.

What I don’t understand is this. The county took over the jail from the city. OK, so the county tax went up. Why didn’t the city tax go down?

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Filed under Albuquerque & New Mexico on July 6, 2006

The downside to downloads

New Mexico is one of 15 states — as well as Washington, D.C. — that tax downloads of music, movies and electronic books.

Other states that tax digital downloads are Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and West Virginia….

The New Mexican

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Filed under Albuquerque & New Mexico and Computers, Internet & Technology on July 6, 2006

FYI

It rained again this morning at Casa NewMexiKen. Nothing with ark-building overtones like a day earlier, but brief periods of hard rain nonetheless.

Thunderstorms remain in the forecast for the next several days.

Lovin’ it.

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Filed under Albuquerque & New Mexico and Environment & Weather on July 6, 2006

It’s the birthday

… of President Bush, six-oh today.

… of Sylvester Enzio Stallone, also 60 today. Stallone is one of three people to be nominated for a writing Oscar and an acting Oscar for the same movie. The others are Chaplin and Welles.

… of Nancy Reagan (85), Merv Griffin (81) and William Schallert, Patty Duke’s TV father, (84).

… of Ned Beatty. Beatty, who is 69 today, was nominated for the supporting actor Oscar for Network.

Bill Haley (”Rock Around the Clock”) was born on this date in 1925; he died in 1981.

The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was born on this date in 1907 [she claimed 1910]. Ms. Kahlo died in 1954.

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Filed under Birthdays on July 6, 2006

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