[Kzyxtalk] Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 108, Issue 12
John Sakowicz
sako4 at comcast.net
Mon Jan 23 17:13:44 PST 2023
Why is a firm from St. Louis filing KZYX's tax returns?
Fick, Eggemeyer & Williamson, CPA
6240 S. Lindbergh, Ste 101
St. Louis, MO 63123
> On 01/23/2023 1:33 PM Scott Peterson <scottmartinpeterson at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Marco,
>
> Anyone thinking about a membership with KZYX would do well to read page 6, line 7a of their latest annual filing here;
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fIusURkvetE0lreOos5_kqUPzfLuzfKK/view?usp=sharing
>
> See where it says, "Did the organization have members, stockholders, or other persons who had the power to elect or appoint one or more members of the governing body?" Now see the answer? It's "No". That paperwork was filed under penalty of perjury by Ms. Durlin.
>
> So people need to think about that next time KZYX hits them up to become members.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Scott M. Peterson
> Mendocino
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> From: kzyxtalk-bounces at lists.mcn.org <kzyxtalk-bounces at lists.mcn.org> on behalf of kzyxtalk-request at lists.mcn.org <kzyxtalk-request at lists.mcn.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2023 12:00 PM
> To: kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org <kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org>
> Subject: Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 108, Issue 12
>
> Send Kzyxtalk mailing list submissions to
> kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> kzyxtalk-request at lists.mcn.org
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> kzyxtalk-owner at lists.mcn.org
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Kzyxtalk digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Fuel for thought. (Marco McClean)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 15:18:35 -0800
> From: Marco McClean <memo at mcn.org>
> Subject: [Kzyxtalk] Fuel for thought.
> To: kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
> Cc: themaj at pacific.net, gm at kzyx.org, bod at kzyx.org, pd at kzyx.org
> Message-ID: <aca3c9b7-8e4c-fac0-9209-97ce7e75f77d at mcn.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
> Subject: Fuel for thought.
>
> Jean wrote:
> > Comparing propane to natural gas ? per therm/Btu? Per gallon?
>
> Marco here. Propane has more than twice the energy density of natural
> gas. But a lot of energy is used separating propane from natural gas and
> from oil. And I can't easily find an answer about /how much/ is used, or
> how bad that process is in pollution and energy waste, nor about what
> they do with what's left behind after they get the propane out of
> natural gas and oil. Maybe they make plastic out of it, or chemical
> fertilizer, or men's cologne.
>
> About another fuel: I've been using a lot of gasoline lately getting
> Juanita to work and back while her car is in the shop, and going the
> same route every day. I've noticed that something I suspected for years
> is actually a thing: When I get gas at Costco, my car gets poorer
> mileage than when I get it at the Speedway Express station for ten cents
> more per gallon. It's 43 mpg versus 45 mpg, and currently $4.09 per
> gallon versus $4.19. Which results in the exact same price per mile:
> eleven cents.
>
> I think the difference in performance might be from the Costco gas
> having more alcohol in it. All the refiners add it anymore, but some add
> more than others. Alcohol has less chemical energy than gasoline. A
> great deal of energy and water and crop lands and materials are used
> growing corn and turning it into alcohol to add to gasoline. Considering
> that, growing corn for fuel may be worse for the environment than just
> making fuel from oil sucked up of the ground. And alcohol in gasoline
> can be bad for car motors, depending on the car, and depending on where
> you live and even on how long you let your car rest between drives.
> Worst case: too much alcohol in the gasoline in an older car sitting
> idle for long periods in a moist environment can ruin the motor. Best
> case: a little alcohol in the gasoline in a newer car driven every day
> in a dry environment gets you fewer miles per gallon. Either way, the
> main effect is to give giant corporations of corn farms, such as Archer
> Daniels Midland, steady income even if the corn flakes market is on a
> roller coaster, and they can spare a trickle of that money to greenwash
> themselves by advertising on NPR radio stations.
>
> Here's a link to an article just about the car part of that:
> https://www.bellperformance.com/blog/the-major-differences-between-ethanol-and-gasoline
>
> Speaking of NPR radio stations: If KZYX's figurehead manager/CEO Marty
> Durlin were to accept just a /15 percent/ cut in pay from her $60,000 a
> year, the freed-up $9000 would pay the entire electric bill to keep all
> their studios lit up and all their equipment on and all their
> transmitters pumping, including the main one. It would be a
> straight-across trade. If recently fired program director Alicia Bales
> was being paid $40,000 a year to pretend to direct the programs,
> dragging out the process of hiring a replacement would pay for all the
> rent on all the buildings, and maybe tower fees, too, and phones and
> internet. And the local airpeople will still be showing up and doing
> their shows, such as they are, for free, the way they have been since
> before the Berlin Wall fell. And the place would still be somehow
> flushing more than half a million dollars of mostly tax-derived grant
> money and rich families' hush money though its various mysterious
> bookkeeping tubes every year, and the upheaval would amount to a blip.
>
> Meanwhile KNYO-LP Fort Bragg, which gets no government grant money, and
> whose management works for free and whose airpeople direct their (our)
> own programs, has just had the massive blow of its radio tower being
> destroyed by the recent storms and needs money to bring it back up to
> its full height and tiny but brave full power. One way to help KNYO and
> real radio would be to go to KNYO.org, click on the Donate Heart and see
> what happens inside your own heart. Another way would be via the
> gofundme page dedicated specifically to the tower project:
> https://tinyurl.com/NewTowerForKNYO
>
> Also, I played Alicia's announcement of her new news podcast on my show
> on KNYO last Friday, and it occurred to me to invite Alicia to have a
> regular timeslot there for her radio work. Many of the airpeople on KNYO
> do shows from their own studios. When I'm at Juanita's place, I do my
> whole show from a typing table. Cheap computer, microphone, small mixing
> board, reading easel and internet service, that's all you need. It's
> easy and fun. Alicia, contact Bob Young via bobb at poetworld.net.
>
> --
> Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
> https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Kzyxtalk mailing list
> Kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
> http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk
>
>
> End of Kzyxtalk Digest, Vol 108, Issue 12
> *****************************************
> _______________________________________________
> Kzyxtalk mailing list
> Kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org
> http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.mcn.org/pipermail/kzyxtalk/attachments/20230123/9b249bda/attachment-0001.html
More information about the Kzyxtalk
mailing list