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Archive for September, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006 Friday’s closeout quick hits! By Steve Sebelius • Political pop quiz: The first name of the Democratic candidate running for lieutenant governor is:
a.) Brian
b.) Bob
c.) Bill
d.) Beatrice
e.) none of the above
Answer is below. No peeking!
• We’re sorry we’ve been out of the loop on the blog, readers. We’ve been stuck in training sessions, learning to use a new whiz-bang computer [...]
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Friday, September 29, 2006 Mortgage fraud is on the rise By Ian Mylchreest Mortgage fraud is on the rise in Southern California, reports the Los Angeles Times. More than 4,000 reports of "suspicious activity" were filed since September 2005. That doubles the previous year’s numbers. The main cause of the big uptick, say authorities, is that the market is flat and houses are hard to sell. In a booming [...]
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Friday, September 29, 2006 Insurers fight for terrorism subsidy By Ian Mylchreest Insurance and business groups are again pushing to get guaranteed government indemnity for terrorist attacks, reports the New York Times. They argue that terrorism is so freaky it can’t be included in traditional insurance business models.
This is the second go-round on this issue. The insurers won last time by getting the guarantees enacted right after 9/11 extended to [...]
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Crime spikes; so what do we do about it? By Len Butcher In light of what’s been going on in our town lately, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that violent crime is on the rise in our country. After a decade of decline, the latest figures show that assault rose two percent between 2004 and 2005, and murder and robbery were up by almost five percent, [...]
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Wednesday Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius In today’s episode of Various Things & Stuff (brought to you by General Mills, makers of Quick Hitsâ„¢ and other fine foods!), the Ghost of Budgets Past, the Ghost of Ethics Past and the Ghost of Court Rulings Past all get together and rock! Here we go!
• Poor Gov. Kenny Guinn. His term is [...]
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 A-polling results By Steve Sebelius So, what should we make of the poll numbers proffered by the Review-Journal, which tend to show Republicans ahead in most of the statewide races?
Sure, there was the news Sunday that U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons leads state Sen. Dina Titus 45 percent to 36 percent, with 10 percent undecided.
And then we learned that [...]
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 More insider trading, says NYSE By Ian Mylchreest The Big Board has fessed up to even more insider trading, reports Reuters. The 140 referrals to the Securities and Exchange Commission is a 26 percent rise over last year.
The New York Stock Exchange’s regulatory unit chief told a Senate Committee that hedge funds are the culprits. And so the Judiciary Committee under Sen. Arlen Specter [...]
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Private equity’s lot is not a happy one By Ian Mylchreest Despite record-breaking deals coming month after month, reports MarketWatch. Gathered at a Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Conference in New York, the industry moguls say they have an image problem and think it’s harder to find the exits with the new SOX rules.
No one is saying the industry will slow down: “We will test the limits [...]
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 The big Enron sentence is small By Ian Mylchreest Justice was tempered with mercy, reports the New York Times, when a federal judge gave former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow a six-year sentence. The original plea bargain looked like a certain 10 years in the big house.
Fastow has co-operated extensively and willingly by all reports and is helping lawyers with civil suits against banks that [...]
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 At long last we learn: What does the Henderson Chamber think? By Steve Sebelius Hold the presses! It turns out the Henderson Chamber of Commerce endorses Clark County Commissioner Lynette Boggs McDonald after all!
You remember last week, when the Henderson Chamber first announced, then retracted, then said it was still mulling whether to endorse Boggs McDonald. (She was enduring one of her worst political weeks ever, with allegations [...]
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