One important side note: the line about the city not saying how the blogger list was compiled is missing one late edit … what I meant was the city wasn’t saying how the list will be compiled once Council acts/doesn’t act on a pending bill to revamp its BRT procedures. (Tax lists were used this time; unsure whether they’ll follow that route in the future).
Another important side note: A lot of the viral uproar yesterday was brought on by misinterpretations that anybody with a blog will have to pay. They won’t.
“If you don’t generate revenues from the enterprise — like a mom blogging about her kids or someone blogging as a creative outlet without ads — you don’t need to pay taxes,” spokeswoman Maura Kennedy said.
The Hickey Promise: You don’t see ads on this site. You never will. But I already paid my BRT anyway. Why? I was a print freelancer when it launched.
What didn’t make it to print:
Estimated Number of SWEEP Citations (by fiscal year):
2007: 82,000
2008: 66,000
2009: 119,224 (increased officers)
2010: 62,000 (increased fines met with a six-month warning period)