July 23 - July 29, 2006
Saturday, Jul. 29
Maybe Tribune Co. can still get its stock back up. Maybe it could stem circulation woes and sluggish revenue growth... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Friday, Jul. 28
Newsroom employees at the Santa Barbara News-Press who want to unionize are asking subscribers to cancel their subscriptions if the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Forget that lackluster GDP report this morning -- the housing market might not be as bad off as we're being... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It might surprise you. Fortune magazine ranks the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as the place to go for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
IHOP spokesman Patrick Lenow gets the day's candor award for telling the New York Times that the Glendale-based pancake chain... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a front-page profile of Dole Food Co. owner David Murdock, focusing on his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sluggish GDP: The nation's economy slowed noticeably in the second quarter, while inflation shot up -- not a good combination.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Jul. 27
Is the L.A. City Council prepared to follow Chicago’s lead and demand that big-box retailers pay a living wage of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Economist takes a look at this summer’s power problems in the United States and concludes that the blackouts in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Field Poll on immigration presents Californians as sympathetic to the plight of workers who came into the United States... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Global resolution: More than two dozen financial firms, including Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, reached a $99 million tentative settlement... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Jul. 26
L.A. lawyer John Marder, whose writer clients have accused the studios of stealing their ideas, gets profiled in Thursday’s New... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
If L.A. sports fans only support winners, why do the Dodgers keep drawing so well? Through 52 home games, attendance... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Federal Reserve district in San Francisco, which covers Southern California, reports a decline in the rate of growth over... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but we might be approaching "celebrity fatigue," at least when it comes to the fashion... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
This morning's New York Times overview on L.A. security guards seeking union representation is a reminder that contracts are due... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
L’Orangerie closes: Corie Brown in the Times gets word on the sale of L.A.’s most storied French eatery to Nobu... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tuesday, Jul. 25
How exactly will MySpace integrate enough advertising on its social networking site to make Web 2.0 economics work? Ross Levinsohn,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Downloading ‘Jetsons’: Warner Bros. Television has cut a deal with Apple Computer to place several of its shows on the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Even if we manage to sneak through the current power troubles without that dreaded Stage 3 alert, there’s the rest... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Utilities have been treating their power lines like some business owners treat their antiquated computer systems: Yes, they should be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The weeks of negative media attention being given to that ever-so-humble director, M. Night Shyamalan, seem to be cresting with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Monday, Jul. 24
Oh brother, yet another blog. Just what the world needs. But this time, the subject is business. L.A.-area business, to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Those quarterly numbers on venture capital funding always get widespread coverage, even if some of the results don’t necessarily jive... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Everybody wants to be the next MySpace and Facebook – except there are different slants to the social networking idea.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Is the widening gap between L.A.’s very rich and very poor such a bad thing after all? The Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
How do you profile someone who doesn’t want to be profiled? Los Angeles Times reporter Glenn Bunting gives it the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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