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Archive for January, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007 Gibbons: Seriously? By Steve Sebelius Now, everybody knows we at Various Things & Stuff are members of the Socialist World Workers Party (we only re-registered Democrat so we could vote in the 2006 gubernatorial primary). So, it may be only natural for us to find things that we don’t necessarily like in the administration of Gov. Jim Gibbons.
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Monday, January 29, 2007 Economists predict small interest rate cut By Ian Mylchreest Lower interest rates are not in our future, reports USA Today. At least they’re not happening if the paper’s poll of economists is to be believed.
Not long ago, the economy, and particularly housing, was expected to be slow enough that rates would come down by summer. Not any more, say the economists. They still see tepid [...]
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Saturday, January 27, 2007 More case bets By David McKee A good decision: No, we’re not talking about the selection of Gary Loveman as gaming and lodging’s CEO of the Year (although we’re not arguing with it, either). This is the fourth year Institutional Investor magazine has bestowed the honor upon Loveman.
No, Herbst Gaming has elected to keep Ferenc Szony at the helm of [...]
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Friday, January 26, 2007 It’s the Real ID follies By Ian Mylchreest The Maine Legislature has given the finger to the federal government’s Real ID requirements for driver’s licenses, reports the Associated Press. New Hampshire legislators have voted to reject an inadequate grant that would make that state a testing ground. And it’s about time people got excited about this.
Real ID might be a great idea if the [...]
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Friday, January 26, 2007 SEC launches KB investigation By Ian Mylchreest LA-based homebuilder KB Homes is facing an SEC investigation over timing of stock options, reports the Associated Press. The news came in a regulatory filing Friday but it can’t be much of a surprise to anyone.
The board had ousted former CEO Bruce Karatz in November because it found evidence that the timing of options grants [...]
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 To spank or not to spank? By Len Butcher
Well, California is at it again. The big question the good citizens of that state now face is: Spank or Not Spank? Forget illegal immigrants; high taxes; LA-area gangs that now total some 40,000 members and are responsible for the surge in homicides; smog so thick it blocks out the sun; businesses flocking to other [...]
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Get real, senators! By Ian Mylchreest US Airways CEO Doug Parker got some rough treatment at the hands of U.S. senators Wednesday because he had the audacity to do what all the experts have said needed to be done for years if the airline industry was ever going to get on an even keel. He got some pretty rude (and if [...]
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 A couple of Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius » Let’s see if we have this right: Rick Rizzolo runs a tax-evading criminal enterprise in the form of the Crazy Horse Too. The business routinely bilks suckers out of money, and roughs them up when they refuse to pay. In the most famous of these cases, they broke a man’s neck and paralyzed him [...]
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Can somebody get him the memo? By Steve Sebelius A member of the media bitching about how public officials don’t respect members of the media is about as common as a celebrity entering rehab. (Good luck, Lindsay!) But it’s time somebody got Gov. Jim Gibbons the memo about dealing the with the media.
That memo says this: Yes, they may be a pain in [...]
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 It’s official: We’re number two By Ian Mylchreest Official numbers released by Macau gaming authorities have made it all but certain that the Las Vegas Strip will be the runner-up as a world gaming destination for 2006, reports the New York Times. The new numbers show that Macau, which barely seems to have got going (only since 2002), has pulled in $6.95 billion compared to a [...]
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