PEOPLE IN PARKING AutomatedValet ParkingManag-


er has reorganized its sales and market- ing department and promoted Mine Gulec to Director of Sales andMarket- ing. She will create and supervise com- pany marketing strategies, serve as the company’s spokeswoman, oversee all sales of hardware and software, con- tribute to company policy, and train a teamof nine sales consultants.Gulec has been a consultant for the company since


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it was founded five years ago. TransCore would like to announce


a new number for their Dallas headquar- ters.Please contact themat 214.461.6443. LAZ Parking has promoted Steve


Gresh to the newly created position of Regional Vice President for the South Texas Region. “LAZ Parking prides itself on creating opportunities for the advancement of our employees, andwith the establishment of this new region,


LAZ will be opening its 10th regional office nationwide,with operations in 19 states and 90 cities,” saidAlanLazows- ki, Chairman and CEO. The company also announced that Michael M. Kramer has accepted the position of Vice President of Human Resources & Administrative Services. SiouxCorp., the leadingmanufac-


turer of application-specific, industrial cleaning equipment, water heaters and steam generators, is celebrating 70 years in business during 2009. The company was started in 1939 as Sioux Motor CleanerManufacturing and was sold to John and Virginia “Gini” Fin- ger in 1965. The first units manufac-


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do a quick study, you would find that folks aren’t parking quite as long as they did before the rate hike. This means more spaces in the garage and easier parking. The point is this: So-called journal-


ists should research their articles and then come to a conclusion based on the facts. Not just make a statement and let it stand in the face of facts in their own articles. They note “massive layoffs,” but


they give no numbers as to how “mas- sive” they are. They tremble that rev- enues will be down when they are actu- ally up. They write headlines that con- tradict each other. The first headline says: Job Cuts


Cause Parking Lot Glut The subhead says: Downtown


Garages Less EmptyThese Days This is from a TV broadcast, but


don’t they have editors?Doesn’t anyone read these before they go out? I’ll bet the writer who created this gem will scratch his or her head and wonder why the news department is losing money and they were laid off. They will blame the Internet, or profit-mongering moguls, or sunspots. It will never occur to them that problem


the


might be the crap they are spewing and call- ing it “news.”


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