October 7 - October 13, 2007

Friday, Oct. 12
Our esteemed assembly speaker hardly offered a full accounting of his crazy spending, but at least he coughed up a...
The tight-wad Tax Foundation has come out with its annual ranking of business friendly and unfriendly states. And guess what?...
Perhaps one of these days the folks at Vitesse Semiconductor will be able to focus their attention on making telecom...
NBC sprucing up?: It's a decent bet that sooner or later GE will unload its entertainment property, and what better...
Thursday, Oct. 11
Call Wall Street reaction underwhelming. Shares of the Bev Hills concert promoter - and now record company - fell 3.7...
Good luck. Nikki Finke had posted last week that Warner production head Jeff Robinov told three different producers that the...
Here's another example of why companies have no business dealing with people’s health care coverage. Employees who smoke (and/or family...
NBC leaves Burbank: Talk about breaking up an act - the network that made beautiful downtown Burbank a cultural icon...
Wednesday, Oct. 10
Who knows for how long, but at least a federal district judge in SF had the good sense to issue...
The LAT publisher will be writing about "things going on at The Times and in our industry." He's inviting comments,...
Well it's not official yet, but the WSJ is reporting that she's close to signing up with Bev Hills concert...
One of the many arguments for universal health care has been a practical one: Folks who don't have coverage don't...
Well, you knew this was bound to happen. A Michigan pension fund filed a shareholder suit accusing the El Segundo-based...
Monday, Oct. 8
An outside deadline will keep me away for a couple of days....
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