October 24 - October 30, 2010
Friday, Oct. 29
The movie company will be reorganized in a prepackaged bankruptcy and emerge under the management of the CEOs of Spyglass Entertainment.
Satellite subscribers have been without Fox's regional sports networks, FX and the National Geographic Channel for a month.
Why not just screen everything? Well, it would be expensive and very time-consuming.
Parent company Supervalu is selling the upscale chain to an investment group led by the Bristol Farms management group and Endeavour Capital.
Developer Rick Caruso says that the bookstore chain wasn't doing well. That's not what Barnes & Noble says.
The NYT columnist says that a Republican takeover next week would be a disaster.
It always happens - an economist or stock analyst who seemed prescient in making one forecast eventually falls flat on another.
Growth revised upward, Toyota accused of keeping quiet, foreclosure sales might be slowing, and DWP workers accused of fraud.
Thursday, Oct. 28
New Rasmussen poll has Boxer up by three points, 49-46.
Just when it seemed as if the movie company and the billionaire shareholder were on the same page.
Lots of chatter today about Bill Carter's behind-the-scenes account of the Leno-O'Brien war over late night.
Do you believe in time travelers? Irish filmmaker George Clarke can't help but wonder.
There's a very long list of contributors from the Silicon Valley and other tech-centric locales.
Besides the Westside route, the MTA board also approved plans for a $1.37-billion regional connector through downtown.
The airport reported a 4.5 percent increase in domestic passengers last month compared with September 2009.
Foreclosure rates still high in CA cities, Brown takes 10-point lead in new Field Poll, MTA board considers subway routes, and MGM battle reaches final stage.
Wednesday, Oct. 27
The SEC accused them of failing to disclose the size of pension shortfalls when the city sold municipal bonds.
The patient survives but then sues the doctor and paramedics for not making him as good as new. If only you hadn't meddled, everything would be all right.
If sales take off, Kimberly-Clark may introduce the line nationally and globally.
As in requiring a dance school to have a police permit, or a used bookstore to hold books for 30 days before selling them.
This may mean something, or nothing, but a monthly index that measures the confidence of folks at the higher-end rose significantly in October.
CEO Mike Jones is giving it a try with a redesign of the clunky social network site.
OC economy to improve in 2011, L.A. chamber to make business pitch at City Hall, good news for Brown and Boxer, and Fox plans another "Avatar" in 2014.
Tuesday, Oct. 26
The City Council voted 13-0 to ask voters to scale back the retirement pay of L.A. cops and firefighters - but only for future hires.
NBC's Matt Lauer must have known he'd get a rise by asking the two candidates for governor if they would dump all the negative ads.
My business chat on KPCC looks at whether the investigation into how foreclosures were processed will affect the overall real estate market.
The Republican Senate is being treated with antibiotics for an infection that her aides said was related to her reconstructive surgery.
Absent the Yankees, what will matter most is how close - and exciting - the first couple of games are.
There continues to be a logjam between the beginning and end of the foreclosure process.
You're an idiot. No, you're the idiot. Hey, did you just call me an idiot?
An overhaul of the city's outlandishly complicated, 64-year-old zoning code certainly makes sense - except how do you do it?
Slide in L.A. home prices, California consumers holding back, high-speed rail gets federal help, and AutoTrader buys Kelley Blue Book.
Monday, Oct. 25
Hey, it could have been worse: Number 55, and last, is Vegas.
It was introduced on July 1, 1979 and by the end of that August, sales had increased 10-fold.
Prices increased 2 percent from August 2009 to August 2010, giving the state the nation's sixth-highest house appreciation rate.
Some were seriously hurt by the disastrous Gulf spill, others merely grazed, and still others barely shaken - and they all want money.
The number is 600,449 for the six months ended Sept. 30, an 8.7 percent drop from a year earlier.
The bond guru at Newport Beach-based Pimco decides that his office needed a little loosening up.
B of A admits to mistakes, feds look into foreclosure filings, 226,000 Californians could lose jobless benefits, and LAT circulation falls.
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