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• Bush and the Economy or Beating a Dead Horse

  Paul Kiesel | December 23, 2008 7:20 PM | 2 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The New York Times published an article Sunday that broadly examines President Bush's role in our current economic turmoil (how Mr. Bush and his administration held the country's hand and led us...

• Tribune Employees Should Come First in Bankruptcy Court

  Paul Kiesel | December 19, 2008 8:51 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  From MarketWatch.com: The following is an official statement from Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa. When billionaire Sam Zell took Tribune private in an overleveraged, doomed deal...

• The New Yorker: What was Sam Zell Thinking and Why?

  Paul Kiesel | December 16, 2008 8:07 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Below is an excellent essay from The New Yorker, which I've broken up into five parts or five reasons. Each reason provides further evidence as to why Sam Zell should have NEVER brokered the...

• Zell to Chicago Tribune: Employee Owners Could be "Wiped Out"

  Paul Kiesel | December 15, 2008 4:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Shortly after filing for bankruptcy protection, Sam Zell told the Chicago Tribune, last week, that he believed the Tribune Company could emerge from the Chapter 11 process stronger and more...

• BusinessWeek: Tribune Bankruptcy Snares Employees

  Paul Kiesel | December 11, 2008 7:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Below is a BusinessWeek article describing the myopic vision Sam Zell had when purchasing the Tribune Co. with little of his money and saddling the Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) with...

• Sam Zell the Grave Dancer: A Plan to Devalue the Tribune Co. in a Plot to Take Over Its Assets

  Paul Kiesel | December 11, 2008 4:55 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  A letter was written by Sam Zell to Tribune Company employees earlier this year discussing the value and intelligence behind the Employee Stock Ownership Program's (ESOP) private transaction of...

• Tribune Company Under Investigation for Potential Violations Involving the Company's Employee Stock Ownership Plan

  Paul Kiesel | December 10, 2008 9:47 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  An investigation is currently being conducted to ascertain whether the Tribune Company and the Employee Stock Ownership Plan's (ESOP) fiduciaries may have breached their fiduciary duties of loyalty...

• CDC: U.S. Dodged a Bullet with Heparin

  Paul Kiesel | December 09, 2008 3:44 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is receiving praise from several recently published medical journals for successively tracking down the deadly contaminant that had been used in the...

• Henry Waxman vs the FDA?

  Paul Kiesel | December 05, 2008 7:59 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Will incoming House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman take on the FDA like his predecessor, John Dingell? Rep. Dingell (D-Mich), unfortunately, was very conservative when it came...

• Home Loans Past Due or in Foreclosure in California: 1-in-9

  Paul Kiesel | December 05, 2008 5:58 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  The biggest economic news of the day had to be America's economy shedding over 500,000 jobs last month, a number that has not been exceeded in one month in 34 years. However, below are two...

• Washington Post: Report Confirms Source of Contaminated Heparin

  Paul Kiesel | December 04, 2008 8:38 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  From HealthDay News and the Washington Post: WEDNESDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- A final report on the deadly contamination of the blood thinner heparin confirms that the problem was caused by a...

• Morphine Overdose Killed Army Soldier

  Paul Kiesel | December 04, 2008 8:30 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Earlier this year, a Fort Huachuca soldier died of a morphine overdose at the Army base's medical barracks, an investigation concluded this week, and authoritites are trying to determine who...

• How Do You Say Heparin Recall in Mandarin?

  Paul Kiesel | December 02, 2008 6:12 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The FDA, after years of criticism for its responses to food-sickness outbreaks and contaminated imports, unveiled a report on Monday that summarizes what officials call a hugely ambitious campaign...

• NYT: Bush Aides Hurry to Pass Contentious Labor Department Rule

  Paul Kiesel | December 02, 2008 2:25 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  President Bush has said that he wants to work with President-elect Obama to make the transition process as smooth as possible. Logically, this makes sense for the greater good of the country,...