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Archive for September, 2006
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 Tuesday Quick Hits: Deane’s out, Angle’s out, Mitchell wants to duel and Gibson’s waiting by the phone By Steve Sebelius Yes, we know, dear readers, we have been neglectful of the blog. We could make a bunch of excuses about work, but you’d know we were just lying in order to cover up our habit of leaving the office early to drink fine wine and smoke fine cigars. So, none of that! (And our thanks [...]
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Tuesday, September 5, 2006 New model “mommy” track makes some headway By Ian Mylchreest The search for balance in life and work is finally making a change for women in the workplace. The so-called “Mommy Track 2.0″ is finally becoming a reality, reports the Los Angeles Times. It’s neither “have-it-all and do-it-all” nor quit and stay home with the kids.
The new approach in much of corporate America is flexible [...]
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Monday, September 4, 2006 Realtors won’t play with others By Ian Mylchreest News from Seattle is that sellers agents are trying to badmouth Internet real estate sales companies and in one case, reports the New York Times, an agent refused to show the buyer the house because it had hired Redfin, an Internet-based, low-cost real estate agency that rebates much of its sales commission to the buyer.
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Monday, September 4, 2006 No one loves the TSA By Ian Mylchreest The Transport Security Administration, which is responsible for screening passengers at the nation’s airports, takes another bullet. The agency has messed up its research program and has been unable to move any of its high-tech ideas from the lab to the check-in line, reports the New York Times.
In particular, the paper, reports that the “puffer [...]
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Monday, September 4, 2006 Judicial reform is almost on the agenda By Ian Mylchreest The dubious standards of judicial ethics in Las Vegas got a hammering in the Los Angeles Times recently and now the paper is trying to claim some credit for plans to reform judicial elections in Nevada.
The most immediate proposal has come from Washoe County Judge Brent Adams who has petitioned the Supreme Court to make [...]
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Monday, September 4, 2006 Sign of the times By David McKee My Business Press colleague, Valerie Miller, snapped this from an Amtrak train, whilst passing through Tacoma, Wash., en route to an extended vacation in Canada. She writes:
The LVCVA is hoping residents will be seduced into visiting Las Vegas — perhaps during the rainy season.
Once again, our tourism promoters appear to be promoting marital infidelity instead. [...]
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Friday, September 1, 2006 Lots of good news for the long weekend By Ian Mylchreest Despite the sad numbers of recent weeks, things have turned up just in time for Labor Day. Well, sort of.
The government said Friday that the unemployment rate fell one-tenth of one percent in August, reports the New York Times, and there were more jobs added in August than in July. The number was 128,000 [...]
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Friday, September 1, 2006 Is shorting a sin By Ian Mylchreest Pegasus Wireless, a company nominally based in Nevada but which does most of its business in Silicon Valley, has got the discussion going again on short selling. The company, reports the New York Times, issued a dividend of a kind early last month.
It was a stock warrant but they were only be issued to real [...]
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Friday, September 1, 2006 California has morning-after doubts about global warming initiative By Ian Mylchreest Two days after the California Legislature agreed to implement its own plan to limit greenhouse gases, business is getting cold feet, reports the Los Angeles Times. The new requirements will be costly and have little impact unless others follow the lead, experts tell the paper.
The key points are that core industries like utilities and oil [...]
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