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Mark Lacter covered business, the economy and more here from 2006 until his death on Nov. 13, 2013.
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November 2013
Folks, I'm sad to announce that Mark Lacter has passed away. His wife, the author Laura Levine, told me that Mark suffered a stroke yesterday and could not survive the bleeding on his brain. Click over to my post for more....
The brunt of the settlement involves the two carriers divesting 104 slots at Washington-Reagan National Airport and 34 at NY's La Guardia. At LAX, the combined airline would lose two gates at Terminal 3.
Limited inventory does not make for a healthy real estate market, even though sales and prices generally have been improving.
Two- or three-day turnarounds are not cheap or easy, but they generate loyal customers who love the idea of getting something in days rather than weeks. Cutting a deal with the Postal Service for Sunday delivery is part of the broader strategy.
More of the drip-drip-drip ad declines that the parent company of the LAT has seen for several years. Tribune's next major step comes early next year when the company discloses its plans for splitting off the newspaper assets into a separate entity.
Rather than focus on ticket sales or merchandise revenues, the school's football program is largely dependent on private donations.
Not to belabor, but just because you have access to mountains of data doesn't mean you know what to do with it.
It's only a single month and October's figure will be subject to several revisions. Only by looking at the long-term picture do you have a sense of what's really going on.
Lots of questions to consider, such as whether the airport had enough cameras near the terminal entrance and whether TSA screeners should be armed.
Talk about pops - the social network's initial public offering was priced at $26 a share and promptly jumped to $50.09 before settling down a bit.
Given the hype surrounding the social network's arrival on Wall Street, price could easily get confused with value - a distinction that's especially important in Twitter's case because its financial prospects are so sketchy.
Very predictable - and from what I've seen, very misplaced. Even in normal times, airports can be precarious balancing acts, and when you have something horrific take place, the ripple effects are enormous - and unavoidable.
Geraldine Knatz was never shy about playing hardball with tenants, even though more competition from the other ports has meant less leverage in cutting deals. She talks about her eight-year tenure and about the changing industry.
The latest financial results not only show TWC losing 306,000 video subscribers during the July-September period, but satellite provider DirecTV gaining 139,000 subscribers in that same quarter.
The federal government's EB-5 visa program allows foreigners to invest in U.S. businesses or developments in return for getting to the front of the line when applying for green cards. But enforcement has been lax.
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