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Archive for May, 2006
Friday, May 26, 2006 A sustainable debate By Steve Sebelius The American Institute of Architects may have wanted to know about sustainable communities, but they got to hear gubernatorial stump speeches instead, at a forum the group sponsored Thursday evening.
We at Various Things & Stuff love you readers far too much to regale you with all the gritty details. So we'll just do a tour [...]
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Friday, May 26, 2006 Sands wins big in Singapore By Ian Mylchreest The Singapore Government has decided to put its chips on Las Vegas Sands to build its first casino, reports the New York Times. The casino promises to be the most expensive the company has ever built.
In many ways it will extend the "entertainment-and-much-more" model that Las Vegas has perfected. The bid reportedly played up Chairman Sheldon Adelson's [...]
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Friday, May 26, 2006 Telephone tax refunds are on the way By Ian Mylchreest The Treasury has finally conceded defeat after a series of court cases has shot huge holes in the long-distance phone excise tax. The tax was originally levied to pay for the Spanish-American War in 1898 and was based on the length and distance of calls. Back then it was a luxury tax.
The advent of unlimited [...]
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Friday, May 26, 2006 Inflation is looking dangerous By Ian Mylchreest The market has been nervous for days about inflationary rumblings and the possibility that the Fed might give the economy some tough medicine. And things started to look a little worse Friday when the government released new figures showing the core rate of inflation was 0.2 percent, reports Reuters.
The core rate is the one the [...]
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Friday, May 26, 2006 It's the morning after and the verdicts look even better By Ian Mylchreest Lawyers don't give Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling much chance of getting their convictions in the Enron trial overturned on appeal, reports the Houston Chronicle.
The main points they will probably argue are that the judge should have moved the trial from Houston, should have separated the trials, should have granted immunity to defense witnesses, should [...]
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 Miller Time … for lies! By Steve Sebelius Former Las Vegas Councilman Steve Miller helped put out a political mailer, and then lied to reporters about doing it?
Man, you just can't trust that Miller. Did you know that cocaine was once found in a car Miller was driving?
Actually, that's not true. But that was an allegation in a creatively edited flier [...]
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 GUILTY! By Ian Mylchreest The jury has spoken on the men of Enron and the word is guilty on most counts. They were found guilty of multiple charges of fraud and conspiracy, reports the Associated Press. The charges each carry potential sentences of five to 15 years.
The Houston Chronicle. details some of the highpoints of the testimony. The paper's [...]
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 It's an up and down world By Ian Mylchreest There's news for every mood in three government reports that are in the news today. If you're bullish, take a look at the latest GDP numbers. The Associated Press reports that the economy grew at an annual rate of 5.3 percent in the first quarter.
That's the best number in over two years an is up [...]
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 Power lines, bad driving and news By Steve Sebelius
• What's that pipeline in the living room? Oh, don't worry there's nothing to fear. It's just the lame-duck administration of President George W. Bush laying down thousands of miles of power lines and pipelines across the west to get energy from far-flung places like Montana, Idaho and Wyoming to the Southwest.
Congress, as part [...]
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 April surprise in home sales By Ian Mylchreest Just when we thought housing was on the downhill slide, comes news this morning from the government that new home sales rose unexpectedly in April. The numbers were the best this year, reports the Associated Press.
Sales were up 4.9 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.198 million units, reports the U.S. Commerce [...]
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