Archive for May 2nd, 2007
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Update: Dow Jones stock slips, keeps balance
After gains yesterday of more than $20 a share, the price of Dow Jones stock (Symbol: DJ) has fallen about 0.36 percent today. Early today, the losses were well over 1 percent, but that could have just been a reaction to Rupert Murdoch’s announcement yesterday.
As something of a non sequitur, here are excerpts from […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Operation Gore Watch: Al Gore cancels McCormick Place appearance
Former veep Al Gore canceled a gig as the keynote speaker at next week’s FMI Show Plus Marketechnics, according to an article in today’s Chicago Sun-Times.
Why’d he go and do that? Gore cited personal reasons.
I’m keeping my eye on this, although it’s probably nothing.
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Chicago 2016 Olympics Update: Ald. Toni Preckwinkle to Olympic Village designers: ‘Start from scratch’
Toni Preckwinkle is no fan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill these days.
An article in today’s Chicago Sun-Times, reported by City Hall Reporter Fran Spielman, cites 4th Ward Alderman Preckwinkle’s furor over plans for the $1.1 million Olympic Village, slated to be built over a truck staging area at McCormick Place.
Said Preckwinkle, the proposed Village “looks […]
