Construction crews broke ground on a neighborhood improvement project in Isla Vista on Wednesday morning. The work kicks off part one of the community’s Master Plan that has been in the works for the last 20 years.

Question from this week’s email bag: “Why do you hate Vista so much?” by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

VISTA —- The city will soon regulate when and where people can run large day care businesses out of their homes. Voting unanimously, the City Council decided Tuesday that all day care homes serving nine to 14 children must have the following: — A

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve probably heard from some media outlet or someone you know that Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system is not such a good upgrade. There’s been a lot said of Vista that isn’t true, and there’s been a lot said that is.

Microsoft says the recent Mojave Experiment, in which users were shown a ‘future’ Windows release that was actually Vista, clearly illustrates that negative perceptions of the OS are unfounded.

Buena Vista Children’s Foundation:

OMAHA, Neb. — Internet giant Yahoo is eyeing an Omaha suburb as the location for some of its operations. The company recently applied for the biggest slate of state tax breaks available in Nebraska to help set up some operations in La Vista.

The difficulty for third-party developers to produce security software for the most feature-rich Vista kernel continues to this day, and a lack of news from ZoneAlarm suggests it could persist well into next year.

PC manufacturers are trying to turn Vista into something more than Microsoft, but they’re failing, and would find more success with Linux.

Port of Kennewick officials say they need more time to study a consultant’s report on Vista Field before holding a joint workshop with the City of Kennewick on the contentious issue.