AltWeeklies Wire
Infamous Sugar Barons Make Nice with Publicnew
For decades, the Fanjul family and their company, Florida Crystals, have symbolized the harshness of corporate, big-business farming. Now they want to win public favor and push ahead with real estate development plans.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Eric Alan Barton |
08-30-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Community Colleges Crack Down on Workplace Bulliesnew
A new workplace antibullying policy passed by the Peralta Community College District board of trustees states that demeaning, intimidating or violent behavior is unacceptable.
East Bay Express |
Will Harper |
08-27-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Black Listed: Former Hallmark Writer Gets the Shaftnew
Derrick Barnes, the first full-time African-American male writer on Hallmark's payroll, wishes he could get his old job back.
The Pitch |
Andrew Miller |
08-23-2004 |
Business & Labor
Businesses Embrace Ancient Art of Feng Shuinew
Customers won't stay and spend money in your store; buyers keep backing out of deals to buy your house; workers in your office complain of headaches and fatigue. Maybe, a friend suggests, it's time to call in a feng shui expert to cure your building's ailing "chi."
Mountain Xpress |
Steve Rasmussen |
08-19-2004 |
Business & Labor
Microsoft Has Sacrificed Innovation to Protect Profitsnew
A former Microsoftie says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products and missed opportunities could doom Seattle’s most successful company.
Seattle Weekly |
Jeff Reifman |
08-07-2004 |
Business & Labor
How Construction Giant Bechtel Manipulates the Pressnew
Bechtel, the company that's won lucrative contracts for reconstruction in Iraq, has a long list of P.R. disasters, like the Big Dig in Boston, that might have sunk another company. But a sophisticated press strategy keeps Bechtel out of trouble.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
A. C. Thompson |
08-07-2004 |
Business & Labor
World's Oil Producers Have Trouble Keeping Up with Growing Demand
In the past month, gas prices have risen more than 20 percent. Two experts contend the world is running out of gas.
The Inlander |
Ted S. McGregor Jr. |
08-07-2004 |
Business & Labor
Starbucks Not As Bad a Corporate Colonialist As Bashers Thinknew
The unavoidable Starbucks is regarded by some as the ultimate corporate colonialist. Taylor Clark looks at the charges against the coffeehouse chain and finds it not guilty on several counts.
Willamette Week |
Taylor Clark |
08-07-2004 |
Business & Labor
Halliburton Finds Plenty of Takers for Risky Iraqi Gigsnew
Halliburton representatives came to Atlanta looking for a few good men and women brave or nutty enough to drive 18-wheelers through enemy fire or serve as medics in the middle of war-torn Iraq.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
07-22-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Welfare-to-Work Employees Cheated out of Minimum Wagenew
Faced with a requirement to pay San Francisco's new minimum wage of $8.50 an hour to its welfare-to-work program participants, the cash-strapped city opted to make seven of the required 31 hours pay-free, but still mandatory.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sitara Nieves |
06-16-2004 |
Business & Labor
Tags: welfare, business & labor
Amusement Park Thrills Can Be Based on Real Dangersnew
Hundreds of medical complications ranging from whiplash to torn organs have occurred at Houston amusement parks. And most galling to those injured, the parks could have taken obvious steps to prevent them.
Houston Press |
Josh Harkinson |
06-05-2004 |
Business & Labor
