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Archive for February, 2006
Monday, February 20, 2006 Federal regulations protect industry By Ian Mylchreest The business community usually abhors federal regulation, but there is a new kind that many industries are embracing, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a series of apparently unrelated rules changes from various agencies, new regulations have been written to include protection from lawsuits.
The examples the paper cites are:
Suits for auto roof failures have been [...]
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Monday, February 20, 2006 Another case of arrested development By Ian Mylchreest What was that about lies, damned lies and statistics? The Las Vegas Sun gave us a classic example of the last over the weekend.
The "independent study" it commissioned purports to show that the water returns and the new taxes give the city a far better deal than it is now getting with Royal Links. This [...]
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Monday, February 20, 2006 Supremes to hear big water case By Ian Mylchreest How far can the EPA go in regulating development is about to come to a head with two Michigan cases that will be heard in the Supreme Court. The cases involve developers who wanted to build on wetlands but ran foul of state authorities enforcing federal law, reports the New York Times.
One developer filled in [...]
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Friday, February 17, 2006 Gibbons speaks! We take credit! By Steve Sebelius Some of you may doubt the power we wield here at Various Things & Stuff. Well, doubt no more. Just one day after we called in our column in CityLife for U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons to declare his stance on the Tax and Spending Control initiative, Gibbons broke months of silence and came out in [...]
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Friday, February 17, 2006 Unite Here sets the stage for new contract By Ian Mylchreest Hotel workers across the country are readying themselves for contract negotiations later this year, reports the Los Angeles Times. The reinvigorated Unite Here union will be pushing for better contracts in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Honolulu, New York and Toronto.
Negotiations will cover more than 50,000 employees at 400 hotels, according to Unite Here. Union leaders [...]
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Friday, February 17, 2006 Airlines lost more bags in 2005 By Ian Mylchreest Here's another scary thought for travelers. Nationwide, airlines lost 10,000 bags a day last year, reports USA Today. That's a 23 percent jump from the year before says the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Passengers reported 3.5 million lost bags. And here's the good news: Most of them were found. US Airways was the worst offender but [...]
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Friday, February 17, 2006 Inflation looms despite cheaper gas By Ian Mylchreest Wholesale prices rose moderately last month reports the Associated Press. Gasoline dropped and that balanced a jump in other sectors.
The bad news is that the core rate (everything except food and energy) jumped 0.4 percent which would add up to an annual rate of nearly 5 percent. And that would be a big jump. Higher [...]
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Friday, February 17, 2006 Gambling still a big issue outside Las Vegas By Ian Mylchreest Two reports in the Review-Journal remind us how seriously much of the rest of the country takes gambling. In an interview with NBA Commissioner, the paper reports "the city's legalized sports books remain a source of fear and loathing for NBA leaders."
Stern hints that Las Vegas would be a leading candidate for any franchise looking [...]
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 TV really has become the "idiot" box By Len Butcher I don’t watch much television. Not that I don’t like it, it’s just that there is so little on worth watching. I, like most of us, I’m sure, welcomed the growth of cable channels. I remember a number of years ago doing a story for a major magazine on the growth of cable and [...]
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Thursday, February 16, 2006 Fun with City Hall By Steve Sebelius Says the private law firm investigating the city of Las Vegas' sweetheart deal with golf course developer Bill Walters: You're dragging your feet in getting us documents!
Says the city, in reply: Are not! Why we just handed you more than 18,000 pages of documents on … um, Monday. Yeah, it was Monday, because [...]
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