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Archive for April 24th, 2006
Monday, April 24, 2006 Quick Hits for Monday By Steve Sebelius ABSTRACT: Today, we have chocolate-spinkled Quick Hits, sour-cream-and-onion Quick Hits and even our newest low-carb Quick Hits. Something for everybody interested in Dario Herrera's G-sting excuses, a good idea (finally) from the city of Las Vegas and a shot at Democrat Tessa Hafen from the real congressman in CD-3. Enjoy!
• We've always been skeptical of [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 Another convention, another Reid faux pas By Steve Sebelius So, after attending the Nevada state Democratic Party convention this weekend at the lovely downtown Plaza hotel, we've just got to ask: What the hell was up Harry Reid's ass?
Nevada's senior senator and leader of Senate Democrats delivered his standard convention speech, mispronouncing the name of Catherine Cortez Masto, the Democratic candidate for attorney [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 A lesson for realtors By Ian Mylchreest Here's a warning for real estate agents, one they should take to heart: A New Jersey court has ruled that agents can be sued for mistakenly telling buyers that a house was in a good school district when, in fact, it was in a less prestigious district, reports the Los Angeles Times.
A New Jersey appeals court has reinstated [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 The little rock wallaby that did By Ian Mylchreest Here's a story that is reminiscent of Henry Ford's mass-marketing the Model-T. [yellow tail] is the unpretentious wine that has become the hot supermarket wine du jour, reports the New York Times and it shows yet again that there's money to be made in serving the popular taste.
The label is undoubtedly part of the story: [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 Here comes Bodog By Ian Mylchreest Today you can expect big tie ups at McCarran as the President's entourage puts down for a fundraising stop in Las Vegas, but the next big thing at the airport will be Allegiant Air planes painted to look like a flying billboard for gaming Web site, bodog.com, reports the New York Times.
Bodog is the Carribean-based Internet [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 Cendant rethinks spin off By Ian Mylchreest Cendant the conglomerate that had been planning to spin itself off into four separate public companies is thinking about selling its travel unit to a private equity buyer, reports the New York Times. The travel business includes online bookers Orbitz and Cheaptickets.com.
The private equity players can pay more than a spin-off would yield and since the [...]
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Monday, April 24, 2006 Playing nice with China By Len Butcher China. The most populated country in the world with more than 1.3 billion people, second only to India’s 1.1 billion. These two countries account for a third of the world’s population. In comparison, the United States is just shy of 300 million. The two giants are also experiencing rapid economic growth, particularly China, and therein [...]
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