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Archive for October 4th, 2006
Wednesday, October 4, 2006 A couple governor campaign Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius We've been buried under a huge mountain of paperwork, readers, and we've only reached a plateau, but we've gathered enough for a couple helpings of Quick Hits.
• We like Dina Titus. Really, we do. (Just ask around. We've been accused of being her press secretary!) But the fact that she returned $10,000 to her [...]
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Crossfiring at Porter By Steve Sebelius Democratic activist (and former Clinton White House official) Paul Begala became the latest political celebrity to drop by the Tessa Hafen headquarters today, helping her in a bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Jon Porter. We talked to him by phone, and here are a few highlights:
1.) The Mark Foley scandal is disaster for Republicans. "Nothing [...]
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006 What did traders know and when did they know of the Harrah's deal? By Ian Mylchreest Two reports suggest that the word had leaked to insiders about the deal to take the world's largest gaming company private. Trading in Harrah's options was unusually active last week, reports Reuters and Bloomberg reports that traders in credit-default swaps also seem to have had an idea that a deal was imminent.
There was already "unconfirmed chatter across [...]
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Unions lose key ruling By Ian Mylchreest The long-awaited but hardly surprising ruling that nursing supervisors have no right to join a union was finally handed down by the National Labor Relations Board, reports the Los Angeles Times. The board now has a majority of Republican appointees who have pushed this policy limiting union membership.
The ruling turned on the definition of a [...]
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