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Archive for January 17th, 2006
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Breaking news By Ian Mylchreest The County Commission has announced that it will consider a moratorium on sales of mobile home parks for new development.
The information is on our Web site. Take a look.
This doesn't sound like a great idea. It might ease some immediate problems for the residents of mobile home parks but it will create all kinds of [...]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Maybe we're naive? By Steve Sebelius We've got to admit, we got a good laugh out of a story in the Review-Journal on Monday about "reform" efforts being sought by both parties scrambling to claim the rapidly eroding moral high ground occasioned by the most recent round of Republican scandals.
Consider this: Suppose the Democrats hadn't been in power before the [...]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 A new deal for the Riviera By Ian Mylchreest Another old resort on the north end of the Strip might have finally found some investors who will give it a billion dollar makeover, reports the Sun. A group of real estate investors including Barry Sternlicht, the former chief executive of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Las Vegas real estate developer Brett Torino and Chicago [...]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Asian Americans face gambling epidemic By Ian Mylchreest Asians in California are in the forefront of a the antigambling lobby in California because problem gambling has cut into the community, reports the Los Angeles Times. In Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Korean and Cambodian communities, social workers and leaders are pressuring gaming officials and state legislators to recognize a hidden epidemic.
The activists think the problem [...]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Bankruptcy makes for better service By Ian Mylchreest At least one traveler says that bankruptcy has improved United Airlines' customer service, reports the New York Times. "It was like flying on a different airline," this flyer tells the paper. "The flight attendants were friendly and the service was efficient."
Customer service was supposed to be hurt by cuts but, in practice, some experts say [...]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Cold Stone feels the chill By Ian Mylchreest The upscale dessert store has been opening new stores at a prodigious rate but at the recent franchisee meeting at the Bellagio, CEO Doug Ducey told his store owners that the company would open fewer stores and concentrate on new products, reports the Arizona Republic. The move is designed to arrest a big slump in [...]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Phoenix looks for gay tourist dollar By Ian Mylchreest The Arizona metropolis is in the odd situation of searching for the gay tourist dollar at the same time as a campaign is under way to add a gay marriage ban to the state's constitution, reports the Arizona Republic.
Tempe is taking the lead with a new gay and lesbian Web portal and a planned tour [...]
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Expensing options hasn't hurt tech sector By Ian Mylchreest The last quarter of 2005 will be the last set of reports where stock options will not have to be counted as an expense on company's balance sheets but so far the accounting change has not hurt the tech sector, which gives more options than other sector, reports USA Today.
A report from Deloitte Consulting [...]
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