1992_03 Insight March 1992

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Big names drive Cadillac
By Kym Kilgore
StaffWriter
What for years was a cement-floored, head-banging rock 'n' roll club may become the center of big-
name entertainment in Fresno.
The Cadillac Club hopes io bring class to the
former Phantom's Opera House and Old Town Saloon by showcasing regional and national talent,
said Peter Kapetan, attorney and one of three
shareholders. "Ifs a night club in the city sense, not
a bar," he said.
The grand opening on Feb. 27 featured Edgar
Winter. Future headliners through April will include Y & T, LA Guns, Eddie Money and Peter
Frampton. Mexican cuisine is available—don't show
up if you are under 18.
Kapetan said Fresno needs something like this
and will hopefully support it
"1 live in this town and I'm tired of not having
anything to do," Kapetan said.
"Bigr Bob Corona and his son Bobby Corona
owned or had interest in three San Francisco night
clubs and are experienced in the business. Big-name
entertainment will come due to Bobby Corona's affiliation with California Concerts.
Ken Robison, who covers entertainment for The
Fresno Bee, sees some risk in bringing big names to
Fresno. "You can lose a lot of money betting on things
like that," he said. But he thinks the shareholders'
connections give the Cadillac Cuba good chance for
success.
Concert tickets range from $3 for local bands to
$20 for big name acts. O
Section 809: from page one
lowering police and fire salaries,"
Harris said. "Our only concern at
the time was from a government
standpoint. The city council should
set salaries, their hands shouldn't
be tied."
Some opponents to Section 809
say police and fire salaries arebeing
pushed beyond the city's means.
Fresno police officers are third
behind Alameda and Glendale
among the eight other cities in average starting monthly pay while
Fresno firefighters are second behind Alameda.
On the flipside, only Sacramento
is below Fresno in the cost-of-living
index. Also, Fresno has the lowest
median housing prices among
Charter Section cities.
Assistant City Manager Jim
Ka ten said thatin order to maintain
the existing work force in police
and fire, a large fraction of the total
tax revenue is taken up. By the year
2000 police and fire will take up all
of the city's tax revenue which ir.
turn will use up money currently
budgeted for parks and recreation,
finance personnel, city clerks, city
council and other things.
"The bottom line is we desperately need a higher level of police
protection and ifs going to cost a lot
of money," said Fresno City Councilman Tom Bohigian, who is in favor of modifying Section 809 and
assessing a city-wide tax to hire more
police officers.
"809 is not the monster that some
people say it is. And it isn't the wonderful panacea that some people say
it is. But you've got people, particularly on the anti-809 side, who like to
use [the cost) as a whipping post
because ifs a great thing to stir up
people and get them angry,"
Bohigian said.
Bohigian said that because of the
understaffed police department
people are paying both financially
and socially.
"Peopleare paying money for car
alarms-people buy guns. They put
bars on their windows and bars on
theirdoors,not to men tion the social
costs. Some neighborhoods are becoming very undesircable because
people are afraid to live with some
of the nuts that frequent them, and
that's outrageous for any part of
town,"   Bohigian   said.   "You
shouldn't write off a section of
town because a minority of idiots
decide that they are going to make
life miserable for people who live
there."
If police and firefighter unions
and the city agree to modify Section
809, the issue will be placed on the
November ballot and must be
passed by the voters before any
changes can be made.
If passed, a tax assessment district will be set up to helppay for the
hiring of more police officers and
firefighters.
"The political nut to crack in this
is there is political risk," said
Bohigian, who is up for re-election
in 14 months. "Who wants to vote
for a politician who raises taxes:
thaf s one side. The other side is,
whyshouldweelectpoliticianswho
sit on their rear ends and don't address serious issues? I don't think
the public right now is in the mood
to put up with that."
Section 809 was adopted by
Fresno voters in 1951 and was approved by only 213 votes, 10,082 to
9,869accordingtoaFresno Bee story.
Past attempts to place a repeal on
the ballot ha ve failed except in 1988,
but Section 809 was upheld.       3
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The Michelangelo computer virus may be lurking In 5 million computers.
Beware: lurking virus
A computer virus known as
b Michelangelo may be reformatting computer hard
drives March 6,1992.
Computer experts estimate
that the virus may be silently
lurking in as many as five million computers.
Michelangelo is transferred
between computers when
floppy disks infected with the
virus are loaded on to computer systems.
The virus then attaches itself to the boot sector of the
hard drive, acting as a roadblock preventing a user from
accessing information in their
computer's memory banks.
On March 6, the Florentine art-
ist Michelangelo Buanarotti's
birthday, the virus will begin to
format hard drives.
Accord ing to a Compu terLand
spokesperson, a group of computer "hackers" from the Netherlands or Sweden are thought to
be responsible for creating the
virus.
The ComputerLand spokesperson described a hacker as
someone who "screws around
with computers."
The virus spread through
Da Vinci E-mail applications and
Leading Edge Systems.
By resetting the date forward
on a computer's internal clock to
make the hard drive skip
March 6, the infection process
will be stalled, but not
avoided. If not dealt with
further, the virus will just
corrupt the hard drive on
March 6 next year.
Copies of Norton's Virus
Scan, an anti-virus software
that will prevent the
Michelangelo virus from
spreading, are available
through the Symantec Corporation. For more information
regarding Norton Virus Scan,
contact your local computer
dealer.
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of your data, just incase.    3
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