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Archive for February, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 And now maybe there’ll be just one By Ian Mylchreest The XM and Sirius hook-up is big news. The deal is worth $13 billion and will undoubtedly draw the attention of antitrust regulators, reports the New York Times.
On the surface, the deal promises big savings in marketing and special deals to attract new customers. It might even save some money on programming costs. The cuts [...]
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Monday, February 19, 2007 Monday musings By Len Butcher
I have said many times, and I will keep saying it: I do not understand the obsession Americans have with celebrities. You probably have already guessed that I’m going to talk about the latest media madness over a gum-chewing, trailer trash bimbo who decided to shave her hair off.
The story of Britney Shears shedding her [...]
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Friday, February 16, 2007 There’s a lot of non-answers out there By Ian Mylchreest We could be thinking of Gov. Jim Gibbons response to the Wall Street Journal’s story that he is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He tells the Review-Journal that he "would have thought if they wanted to talk to me they would let me know. I am a pretty public figure. It is up to [...]
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Friday, February 16, 2007 Here’s another list we don’t want to top By Ian Mylchreest The national real estate picture is worse than we thought it was, and Nevada has taken the biggest hit, reports the Associated Press. New numbers from the National Association of Realtors shows that home sales fell in 40 states in the fourth quarter of 2006, and Nevada headed the table with a drop from the [...]
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 Can you say, “Gov. Krolicki?” By Ian Mylchreest Things haven’t come to that yet but the FBI is looking into Gov. Jim Gibbons dealings with Warren Trepp and his eTreppid Technologies, reports the New York Times.surfaced before the November election that Trepp had given Gibbons and his family an expensive cruise and a plane ride, that were not disclosed.
None of this would have [...]
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 Wrong again By Steve Sebelius Oh, there’s plenty of stuff going on to blog about today, readers! Lance Malone’s six-year sentence. (That’s one day for every $257 he accepted or passed along in bribes, versus our suggestion of a dollar a day, which would have been a sentence of 1,542 years!) Mayor Oscar Goodman’s joy at what appears to be [...]
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Wednesday Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius We understand that NBA Commissioner David Stern is going to talk to the capitalists today about the branding of basketball at a luncheon put on by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. We want to hear all about it, since branding apparently makes the capitalist machine go ’round. But before we slip over to the [...]
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Rental car companies looking at merger By Ian Mylchreest Four major rental car brands may end up under the same umbrella, reports the New York Times. Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, the owner of Dollar and Thrifty, is talking with Vanguard Car Rental, which owns National and Alamo about a $3 billion merger.
The paper says the talks have been going on for months and are not [...]
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Applebee’s hits hard times By Ian Mylchreest That fast casual/family restaurant sector can be brutal. At least that’s how Applebee’s is finding it. The company has formed a committee of independent directors to look at its options.
The group is looking at a sale but no deal is on the table. And, because it may or it may not find one, the company [...]
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 And the rumor mill says … By Ian Mylchreest It says that Mayor Oscar Goodman is about to hit the jackpot with the Memphis Grizzlies. Robin Leach reports that the final details will be worked out when NBA Commissioner David Stern gets to town before the All-Star Game.
We aren’t sure we deserve bragging rights but we did put two and two together last month [...]
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