December 10 - December 16, 2006
Saturday, Dec. 16
It's the 54-story hotel and condo tower that's the centerpiece of the L.A. Live complex, right next to Staples Center....
Friday, Dec. 15
HarperCollins announced the dismissal of the wild-and-crazy editor, who created quite a stir with her plans for a book and...
The new owner of the Four Points Sheraton Hotel has rehired 12 workers who were let go earlier in the...
This one, from Entrepreneur.com, involves Valerie Bent, who two years ago was working for an L.A.-area investor relations firm she...
Say what you will about Dean Singleton, but the guy is persistent. He's finally getting his hands on the Daily...
As in public companies now having to report executive perks over $10,000 (from $50,000). The new SEC rule is already...
Did you know that Americans drank 10 times as much bottled water in 2004 as they did in 1980, that...
Gas prices go up: The party's over, it appears. Refinery production problems have pushed up wholesale prices and that's having...
Thursday, Dec. 14
Interested in showing up your neighbor with the hottest, coolest, hippest, trendiest, have-to-have-at-any-cost add-on for your house? Real estate author...
Talking about stating the obvious. The Southern California Association of Governments came out with its annual State of the Region...
It's not the Monday after Thanksgiving, as the news stories would have you believe. It was actually this past Monday,...
Was it just a few months back that Disney was considered in a no-win position as the distributor of Gibson's...
At the closing bell, the Dow was up 96 points (it retreated a bit from earlier in the session). It...
Chandler update: WSJ reports that the Chandler family, which is making noises about making a bid for part of Tribune...
Wednesday, Dec. 13
Now that lettuce has been identified as the probable source - or delivery "vehicle" - in the outbreak of E....
That's at least the view of 24/7 Wall St.'s Douglas McIntyre, who lists the Thousand Oaks-based Amgen as among the...
While we're on the subject of rich and poor, perhaps it's worth noting that in this season of Wall Street...
Nearly three-quarters of Americans believe the gap between rich and poor is a serious national concern, according to a new...
The NYT's David Cay Johnson likes to delve into some very complicated economic and financial stories. His latest effort concerns...
It's very small, but 1st Century Bank has gotten a fair amount of attention because it was started up by...
Housing settles down: The median price of an L.A. County home was $510,000 in November, according to DataQuick Information Systems,...
Tuesday, Dec. 12
Techcrunch claims it's gotten a hold of documents showing the progression of negotiations between Yahoo and the social networking site...
The NFL Network is offering Time Warner Cable one free week of its programming, but the offer doesn't appear to...
New ways to cheat: But you have to be a corporate executive who is already manipulating his stock option grants....
Monday, Dec. 11
L.A. and other large Socal cities saw a drop in both central-city and suburban poverty rates over the period between...
Searching the Internet for "construction laborer" and "Mexican workers" could turn up an outfit called Labormex Foreign Labor Solutions, which...
Shopping update: Retailers might get a break this year because Hanukkah starts on Dec. 15, which means an extra shopping...
Sunday, Dec. 10
His ultra-violent "Apocalypto" found enough takers over the weekend to top the box office charts. The R-rated story set in...
Could a place like Chandler, Ariz. offer its residents the same kind of retail offerings without benefit of chain stores?...
It's inevitable that the popular video site would be getting some competition, so now we have Fox, Viacom, CBS and...
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The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
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