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Archive for February 3rd, 2006
Friday, February 3, 2006 McCarran hits big numbers again By Ian Mylchreest It was a record year for airport passengers at McCarran, reports the Review-Journal. Over 44 million passengers arrived in 2005 as the airport posted a 6.8 percent increase in arrivals and departures.
Increases like this are straining McCarran's capacity even though it has $2.4 billion in additions to help it cope. "How do you close a [...]
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Friday, February 3, 2006 Employment numbers show mixed picture By Ian Mylchreest The government says that productivity rose at the slowest pace since the recession of 2001, reports the Associated Press. Wages were also up and may be hinting at inflation.
Productivity rose by 2.7 percent last year while labor costs rose by 2.4 percent, the biggest gain since a 4.2 percent increase in 2000. For the final [...]
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Friday, February 3, 2006 SEC still probing Brunson buyout offer By Ian Mylchreest Back last summer poker legend Doyle Brunson offered $700 million for the WPT Enterprises Inc., which was twice the company's capitalization. WPT had lit up the poker scene with its television tournaments.
The offer mysteriously disappeared as Brunson refused to provide WPT with any details. But the stock ran up to nearly $30 before that [...]
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Friday, February 3, 2006 Now not the time for isolation By Len Butcher Recently, Ted Koppel, who for 42 years brought the news to us, wrote a column in The New York Times,that was directed to the state of television news today. In the column he said that “We have entered the age of boutique journalism. The goal for the traditional broadcast networks now is to identify those [...]
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Friday, February 3, 2006 Online casino looking for a sports book By Ian Mylchreest Online gamer 888 is trying to find a sports book to add to its portfolio, reports the London Telegraph.
John Anderson, 888's chief executive, told the paper he wanted to offer sports betting to the company's casino and poker players to boost "customer retention" and "organic growth."
Of course, this stuff is totally illegal in the [...]
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