| BBC3 and BBC4 face budget cuts as economic downturn bites (Guardian Unlimited) |
| BBC3 and BBC4's budgets could be cut under radical plans being discussed to make cost-savings at the corporation. The BBC is looking to make efficiencies to meet a £140m shortfall over the next five years due to the economic downturn. Plans to sell off key buildings such as BBC Television Centre in west London are being reviewed, along with spending across the corporation. ... |
| 12/02/2008 |
| City & State Officials Break Ground Today at 360 State Street (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) |
| NEW HAVEN, Conn.----Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. and City officials along with Landon Butler & Company, Becker + Becker, The State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development and the Connecticut Development Authority, were on hand today to officially break ground for 360 State Street, the $180 million redevelopment of the former Shartenberg Department Store Site in New Haven. |
| 12/01/2008 |
| Residents: Legal help only hope (The Martinsburg Journal) |
| MARTINSBURG - Doc Greenfield clearly remembers the moment when he knew Blairton residents would have to go to court to save their homes. He said it came after meetings with a representative from Van Metre Millennium Blairton LLC, the Virginia-based company that claims ownership for the land under the residents' houses. |
| 12/02/2008 |
| How Private Equity Strangled Mervyns (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News) |
| On the morning of Oct. 23, Mervin G. Morris went to the Hayward (Calif.) headquarters of Mervyns department stores one last time. As the retail chain's founder walked into the rust-colored concrete building, scores of shell-shocked employees were shuffling out with boxes full of their personal effects. Dozens rushed up to tell Morris, 88, how much they had enjoyed working at Mervyns. One woman ... |
| 12/01/2008 |
| When the Ax Falls Twice (American Journalism Review) |
| "B oth of us?" I sputtered. It was all I could say when the publisher of the Missoulian , the daily newspaper in Missoula, Montana, quietly told my husband and me that we were both being laid off, effective immediately. |
| 12/02/2008 |
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