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.