April 8 - April 14, 2007
Saturday, Apr. 14
Nick Paumgarten's piece in the New Yorker about long-distance commuting opens with the obligatory crazy person: an engineer at Cisco... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Friday, Apr. 13
It just so happened that the Imus firing came on the same day the Federal Trade Commission released a report... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Here's how former Chrysler chairman - and longtime L.A. resident - Lee Iacocca opens his new book "Where Have All... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Imus behind the scenes: WSJ does a nifty chronicle of the backstage moments leading to yesterday's Imus firing. In patching... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Apr. 12
That's how L.A.'s airport commissioner described the airport's failure to upgrade its facilities since the the Bradley terminal opened in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Just too much tumult, it seems (so much for earlier post). The network obviously had been hoping that a two-week... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
For all the troubles surrounding the Thousand Oaks-based biotech company, shares rose 2.3 percent today (on a day when the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
At least in a new Crain's online poll, which was taken before you-know-who was booted from MSNBC. Nearly two-thirds of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Kind of. Come September, 500 people will be wandering around L.A. with cellphone tracking devices that pick up the sounds... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The latest WSJ survey of economic forecasters out today shows only limited concern about the housing market or the prospects... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The private equity boys took a pass on Tribune (for good reason), but they're interested in just about everything else... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Choppy market: Lots of crummy news out of Iraq and higher oil prices, although March retail sales look pretty good.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Apr. 11
He's Henry Winterstern and he resigned last month as CEO of First Look Pictures, an upstart independent. The NYT's Sharon... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In moving this afternoon to drop you-know-who from the MSNBC lineup, NBC said there had been "many conversations with our... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The eight-session winning steak is over. The Dow was down all day, not helped by the minutes of the latest... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
It's the outgrowth over that flap about the airport jacking up United's rent. The increase amounts to $10 million and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
What is it with L.A. billionaires trying to buy companies? First the B&B Dudes got turned down by the Tribune... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The so-called 145 study involving the biotech company's top-selling Aranesp anemia drug is getting so much attention on Wall Street... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Bev Hills stunner: British developers are paying $500 million for the now-closed Robinsons-May near the corner of Santa Monica and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tuesday, Apr. 10
A new LAT/Bloomberg poll finds that 60 percent of those surveyed believe that a recession is looming within the next... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
How do you unload downtown condos that have gone begging because of a sluggish real estate market? You rent them,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Dow finished in positive territory for the eighth consecutive trading session. The last time that happened was four years... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Perhaps those sky-high housing prices are finally having some effect on growth. For whatever reason, Los Angeles County saw a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Amgen troubles: The WSJ tops its front page with a large takeout on the biotech company's growing problems - mostly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Monday, Apr. 9
Competing with iPods: Yahoo, along with two smaller companies, are collaborating on a $250 MP3 player that hit store shelves... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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