PALACE: The folks battling the sales tax...

PALACE: The folks battling the sales tax levy to build a new jail (B1) almost called their group TAMJ: Taxpayers Against Measure J. But then someone came up with the idea of dropping the word “Measure.” The result is shorter, punchier and allows for a better acronym: TAJ. . . . A leader of the anti-tax forces, Rick Violett, says the name was “a fairly easy one to come up with,” since he and his colleagues have been putting in their ballot arguments the tag line: “We need jails, not a Taj Mahal.”