| March 31: Column on Statue Gift Shop |
In a previous column we discussed the origins of more than $500,000 in Hotel Occupancy Tax money collected by local hotels and inns and passed through to the city to use for promotion of tourism and the hotel industry.
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| April 21: Council Hires Auditor |
There will be audit of the city's Hotel Occupancy Tax funds and it should be completed by the time the city's Hotel Occupancy Tax Board meets in June.
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| June 2: Council Authorizes Staff To Act |
When Huntsville City Council members emerged from an hour-long executive session with City Attorney Leonard Schneider to discuss issues around the Hotel tax fund contract with the Huntsville Walker County Chamber of Commerce, they didn't have much to say.
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| June 26: Column On Chamber Membership, Ethics |
I remember the first time, as a journalist, I wrote a story that upset some people. I remember it because I felt some of those folks were friends and their anger stung. I was naïve then. I didn't realize that being a bearer of bad news, or messages people don't want to receive, somehow makes you a part of the message or some nefarious plot in their minds.
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