"Most people think the district is working hard," said John Wells, who arrived in 1979 as a mining engineer and now runs a financial services company. "But then you're confronted with the testing numbers — and they tell us we're … Amendment 66 would …

Others, particularly those representing more affluent areas with fewer needs for social services, use the rollover money for big-ticket capital improvements such as road paving. Council members can freely transfer their NDF money to capital improvement …

The first is that the cost of health care is larger than the reach of our entire income tax system. The second is that however the dollars are sliced, the cost of health care is more than all but the most affluent people can afford. It's also more than …

Because of this agreement, Canadian businesses will have access to a half billion affluent customers – the world's single largest market. The benefits of this trade agreement will be felt by Canadian workers in every region of the country and in …

Beef prices have been driven up by rising demand – with the affluent in countries such as China increasingly switching to western-style diets – and by rising grain costs, the result of population growth, and the impact of climate change. Yet UK …

For long-term investors, there's a good case to be made for sticking with Brazil. Economic growth has slowed, but Brazil's gross domestic product is still expected to expand by 2% to 3% in 2013 and 2014 as many of the fundamentals that fueled recent …

For highly-closeted sci-fi-loving gadget-nerds like your correspondent, the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid packs feature content, design touches and high-tech interfaces that get the salivary glands gushing away on overtime. Though not equipped with photon …

After two decades of uninspired results, this latest Infiniti gang knows this is their last, best chance to remake Nissan's luxury brand. We'll see a long list of new models and old models with new names. That is, the 2013 JX35 is now the 2014 QX60 …

Citing "multiple sources," KPIX reported last night that the barge "will feature luxury showrooms and a party deck … to market Google Glass and other gadgets to invitation-only clients." A partial list of what the barge might be: Offshore housing for …