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Archive for April, 2006
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 CEO pay goes from zero to infinity By Ian Mylchreest CEO pay is getting more headlines: One the one side, Bloomberg reports that the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the supremo of institutional investors, is questioning the $2.6 billion in stock options being handed out in UnitedHealth’s executive suite. And on the other side, the Los Angeles Times says some of the richest CEOs around [...]
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 More mixed signals By Ian Mylchreest This economy and what people think about it doesn’t get any easier to read. We’ve been lulled into a false sense of security in Las Vegas compared with the rest of the country because of the boom in gaming and construction but it’s still hard to read how the Conference Board numbers put consumer confidence [...]
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 Seats are getting closer together By Ian Mylchreest If thought you were getting taller or wider every time you ride an airplane, take heart. The airlines are actually putting the seats closer together, reports the New York Times.
Manufacturers are even pitching Asian airlines on a plan to make passengers stand against padded boards to which they would be attached by a harness. So [...]
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 Apple case threatens business news By Ian Mylchreest Last week Apple was in court arguing its case against the bloggers that revealed its trade secrets, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the bloggers that Apple really wanted to get.
The target were the leakers who supplied information to the Web sites about Apple’s plans for its products. And to get at those [...]
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 Presidential visits and such By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff caught a glimpse of Air Force One on Monday, the majestic customized Boeing 747 waiting on the tarmac at McCarran International Airport as President George W. Bush made a quick drive to The Venetian to raise about $440,000 for U.S. Rep. Jon Porter, who reportedly is a congressman representing [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 Quick Hits for Monday By Steve Sebelius ABSTRACT: Today, we have chocolate-spinkled Quick Hits, sour-cream-and-onion Quick Hits and even our newest low-carb Quick Hits. Something for everybody interested in Dario Herrera’s G-sting excuses, a good idea (finally) from the city of Las Vegas and a shot at Democrat Tessa Hafen from the real congressman in CD-3. Enjoy!
• We’ve always been skeptical of [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 Another convention, another Reid faux pas By Steve Sebelius So, after attending the Nevada state Democratic Party convention this weekend at the lovely downtown Plaza hotel, we’ve just got to ask: What the hell was up Harry Reid’s ass?
Nevada’s senior senator and leader of Senate Democrats delivered his standard convention speech, mispronouncing the name of Catherine Cortez Masto, the Democratic candidate for attorney [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 A lesson for realtors By Ian Mylchreest Here’s a warning for real estate agents, one they should take to heart: A New Jersey court has ruled that agents can be sued for mistakenly telling buyers that a house was in a good school district when, in fact, it was in a less prestigious district, reports the Los Angeles Times.
A New Jersey appeals court has reinstated [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 The little rock wallaby that did By Ian Mylchreest Here’s a story that is reminiscent of Henry Ford’s mass-marketing the Model-T. [yellow tail] is the unpretentious wine that has become the hot supermarket wine du jour, reports the New York Times and it shows yet again that there’s money to be made in serving the popular taste.
The label is undoubtedly part of the story: [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 Here comes Bodog By Ian Mylchreest Today you can expect big tie ups at McCarran as the President’s entourage puts down for a fundraising stop in Las Vegas, but the next big thing at the airport will be Allegiant Air planes painted to look like a flying billboard for gaming Web site, bodog.com, reports the New York Times.
Bodog is the Carribean-based Internet [...]
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