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Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31, 2007 Forget a special session; this one’s good enough! By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — Apologies for the lack of legislative blogging on Wednesday; it seems there were some problems with the DNS servers at the Stephens Media LLC West Coast Headquarters and Spa on Bonanza Road. (“DNS,” apparently, stands for “Do Not Surf.”)
But we’re back in action today, and able to report this: Late Wednesday [...]
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 Everyone is going green By Ian Mylchreest Whatever prompted the Legislature to offer big tax breaks for green building in 2005, it’s become more obvious by the day they’re not needed any longer. First it was Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. promising that it would be carbon neutral in a few years.
Now comes word that CB Richard Ellis is making the same promise. [...]
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 SBA not quite what it used to be By Ian Mylchreest Continuing cuts in funding and staff has made the Small Business Administration a shadow of its former self, reports the New York Times. Critics point to smaller loans and increased fees as a major source of the problem.
The agency responds that it’s still offering a better rate of interest than anyone else and certainly there’s lots [...]
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Slacking off By Janet Murphy I recently had knee surgery and that’s where the excuses, backsliding and laziness kicked in. Before, I was motivated, watching my diet and exercising every day. All that disappeared surprisingly quickly.
Granted my activities were restricted for a while, but I was doing physical therapy. While it wasn’t very aerobic, it was strengthening. But it was [...]
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Pulte cuts jobs By Ian Mylchreest It had to happen but now is the time, reports the Associated Press. The Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based home builder has said that the bad times in the new home business mean it will cut 1,900 jobs or 16 percent of its workforce.The cuts will save $200 million before taxes.
”The homebuilding environment remains difficult, and our [...]
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 A deal! By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons, Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio and Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley just got finished holding a news conference on the steps of the state capitol, annoucing they’d reached a deal on the education budget.
That spending plan, which had flummoxed lawmakers in recent days, was finally resolved today, despite numerous [...]
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Tensions on the rise By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — Tensions are rising in the capital as the Legislature faces its final week, by which we mean to say, its final week of the regular session.
State Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio called a news conference for 9:30 a.m. today, but after about an hour, word came that it had been canceled. [...]
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Showdown at UnitedHealth By Ian Mylchreest The moment of truth is set for Tuesday, reports USA Today. The California Public Employees Retirement System backed by the California State Teachers Retirement System is pushing the plan to allow investors a much bigger say in the slates of candidates for the board.
UnitedHealth’s former CEO William McGuire became the poster boy for the options [...]
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 CDW targeted for buyout By Ian Mylchreest Computer retailer CDW is in talks to be taken private, reports the Wall Street Journal. The company customizes computers and resells them to business and institutional customers. CDW has a significant presence in North Las Vegas, where it set up its western distribution center in February, 2006.
Madison Dearborn Partners is considered in the lead to buy [...]
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Monday, May 28, 2007 Free the children! By Steve Sebelius CARSON CITY — Senate Democrats, tiring of the longrunning negotiations over the state budget, held a news conference moments ago, accusing Gov. Jim Gibbons of holding education hostage.
It’s a charge designed for maximum effect, given that Gibbons was the person who conceived the “Education First” ballot initiative after accusing Democrats in 2003 of [...]
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