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