June 13 - June 19, 2010
Friday, Jun. 18
Attention L.A. business owners: Don't expect to get much done on Monday. A few of your employees will be coming down with Laker flu.
One of the familiar local names in big screen TVs and home theater systems will be shutting down within 60 days.
Every single critic on the Rotten Tomatoes Web site -- all 134 of them -- gave "Toy Story 3" a positive review.
Great move by the those budinskis in CA state and local government to take aim at Arizona's new immigration law.
That's the new minimum wage at KFC China -- and it's a 30 percent increase over what workers had been making.
Gold keeps climbing, Lockheed braces for cuts, state fails in collecting fines, and AEG Live could be looking for a partner.
The May jobless rate was 12.4 percent, down a bit from a revised 12.5 percent the previous month.
Thursday, Jun. 17
Jason Hirschhorn leaves the struggling social networking site. Co-president Mike Jones is expected to become CEO.
Two nighttime images of our fair city. So how much better off are we now? Lots.
Feds say that investors were promised short-term returns of up to 130 percent annually so that earlier investors could be paid off.
The Weekly found numerous medical-marijuana dispensaries that were supposed to shut down as of June 7 but remain open.
The high court ruled that supervisors may read an employee's text messages if there are suspicions that work rules were being violated.
That's the price range on Qantas going roundtrip between L.A. and Sydney on board the world's largest passenger jet.
Next to no inflation in L.A., banks starting to add checking fees, tomatoes are plentiful and cheap, and Eli Broad agrees to giveaway.
Wednesday, Jun. 16
That's what Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is predicting. Of course she's not exactly a disinterested observer.
For 90 percent of L.A. County's homeless population, public costs average $710 a month. For the rest, it's $8,083.
The Disney CEO is testifying this morning in a $250 million dispute with the UK creator of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
When you're interviewing for a job, is it all right to inflate your current pay, in the hopes of getting even more?
It's not quite the same as a moral hazard, but the results are much the same:
Check of ticket brokers and other outlets this morning shows that they're running anywhere from $12,500 to $60,000.
Proposal to raise FDIC limits, state looks at health care hikes, coffee prices could be going up, and Disney relaxes its theme park dress code.
Tuesday, Jun. 15
The folks in Sacramento are a little late in getting the thing done. All right, a lot late.
Still bouncing around for reasons that aren't very clear. It's the third 200-point gain this month, which would be nice if it weren't for the losses.
Production types nervous about the public's waning appetite for the well-worn, whether it's a sequel or an adaptation of an old TV series.
These things typically don't have a great track record. Heck, if it were that easy to jobs, wouldn't the idea already have come up?
The county's median price was $345,000, up sharply from $329,500 in April and $300,000 from May 2009.
Ad spending to grow (slowly), DWP might sell assets, Tesla going public at the end of the month, and Best Buy misses its number.
Growth over the next three years will be slower than the nation as a whole, according to the Anderson Forecast economists.
Monday, Jun. 14
eBay employee claimed that Whitman became angry about something and forcefully pushed her.
He's the former moneyman at L.A.-based TCW who is accused of having pot, hardcore porn and sexual devices in his office.
Will LA County District Attorney Steve Cooley will ever get into the Villaraigosa ticket scandal?
Disney's CEO was watching Saturday's ad-free match between the U.S. and England.
The chief economist of the Economic Development Corp. of L.A. County will be leaving at the end of June.
Car sales slower than first thought, city proceeds with layoffs, E3 Expo opens downtown, and are Weinsteins back in the hunt for Miramax?
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