July 1 - July 7, 2007
Friday, Jul. 6
Airlines are a disaster. Airlines are looking up. Welcome to the wonderful world of bidness, where what's good for many...
Don't be put off by the denials of this morning's report in the British newspaper The Business that a deal...
ESPN will be doing a lot of up-close-and-personal stuff in covering the soccer superstar's first game for the Los Angeles...
All port workers and truckers were supposed to have the cards by the end of last year. Now, the launch...
Solid jobs report: Employers added 132,000 workers to their payrolls in June - slightly more than expected - and the...
Thursday, Jul. 5
If Paris Hilton still remembers the stuff she said about giving something back to society (c'mon now, stop laughing), a...
Well, it's about time. Inquiring minds want to know when Telemundo newswoman Mirthala Salinas told her bosses she was having...
Let the truth be told: Science magazine has a new study out today in which the numbers are almost even-steven....
A pretty thick marine layer has kept temperatures mostly in the 70s on the Westside, but if you're heading to...
Strange day: Man, talk about a morning when you don’t want to go to work. Don’t expect productivity to be...
Wednesday, Jul. 4
It's hard to see how they don't. In a half-day session when nothing was happening, shares of the Bev Hills-based...
Tuesday, Jul. 3
It may seem hard to believe now, but the Hiltons didn't start out as a joke. --Conrad Nicholson Hilton was...
This is not that much of a surprise. The Bev Hills-based hotel company has been a rumored takeover candidate for...
Here we go again. Just a week after the Blackstone Group began trading (its shares are down 4.1 percent from...
State officials are calling on residents to turn off their lights and turn up their thermostats between 2 p.m. and...
Talk about your HR challenges. If she hasn't already done so, Mirthala Salinas soon will be meeting with her boss...
You wouldn't know it judging by the early box office numbers for Michael Moore's "Sicko" - the movie that was...
Holiday schedule: Wall Street has one of those half-day sessions (the markets close at 1 p.m. NY time), although there...
Monday, Jul. 2
Was it just a couple of months back when local TV news treated the increases in gas prices as a...
The aw-shucks Arkansas attorney is in Sacramento, representing 415,000 California car buyers who owned Ford Explorers in the 1990s. Oh,...
Even the NY Post is left to calling it a rumor. But it's out there - and according to the...
Stronger economy, but...: The latest WSJ survey of forecasters has gross domestic product growing at an annualized rate of 2.6...
Sunday, Jul. 1
You mean to say that people moving into apartments and condos within a few blocks of mass transit aren't actually...
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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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