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April 27, 2012
What I’m reading with my morning coffee | 4.27.12
Lots of airline-related items today. First is Kiah Collier’s piece in the Chronicle analyzing how air fares from Houston to destinations in Latin America compare with other cities such as Miami, Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta. On average, they’re higher. Meanwhile, Southwest Airlines reached a tentative agreement with its flight attendants union for flying international routes. [...]
April 26, 2012
Chesapeake to scrap well program that involved CEO’s loans
More disturbing disclosures may be coming from the natural gas producer as the CEO promises to reveal details of controversial loans.
April 25, 2012
What I’m reading with my morning coffee | 4.25.12
Wal-Mart tried to amend anti-bribery law. If you can’t beat ‘em, lobby to change the rules. Gasoline futures tumble. Fill up the Hummer and head to the beach. Happy days are here again. Whistleblower’s cover blown by SEC. Investigators exposed key source in Pipeline Trading Systems case. Fishing guides say their businesses are gasping for [...]
April 23, 2012
Keeping jobs from killing workers
Workplace safety regulations don't kill jobs; they keep jobs from killing workers.
What I’m reading with my morning coffee | 4.23.12
Wal-Mart executives hushed up a vast bribery case in Mexico. By opting for damage control rather than rooting out the wrongdoing,the retailer may have left itself vulnerable to U.S. fines. Are Google and Facebook growing complacent in bubbles of their own creation? Ignoring mobile devices could be a symptom of an isolated work force. Energy [...]
April 20, 2012
The Atlantis documents that BP didn’t want anyone to see
Last week, I wrote about the documents that have finally been made public in a court case over BP’s Atlantis platform in the Gulf of Mexico: Thousands of pages of internal documents and emails, recently released in a long-running lawsuit, reveal ongoing safety issues, deficient design documents and a pattern of problems that are disturbingly [...]
What I’m reading with my morning coffee | 4.20.11
Offshore industry’s progress on safety still draws skepticism. Have regulators and the energy industry done enough in responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster two years ago? Meanwhile, the Huffington Post has compiled a list of spills that have occurred around the world since the accident. United’s Smisek: Not enough demand for O’Hare expansion. Unless, of [...]
April 19, 2012
Chesapeake Energy: Are the `e’s’ tilting?
Chesapeake Energy is enmeshed in controversy after reports that its CEO borrowed $1.1 billion against his private interests in company assets.
What I’m reading with my morning coffee | 4.19.12
This morning, much of my attention was focused on stories about Chesapeake Energy’s CEO, Aubrey McClendon, and his $1.1 billion in personal loans. After Reuters reported the story yesterday, the Wall Street Journal weighed in with this piece, which focused on how Chesapeake was negotiating with the same private equity firm to which McClendon owed [...]
April 18, 2012
Happy National Columnists’ Day!
Believe it or not, today is National Columnist Day. Here’s a video put together by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. It repeats itself, but that’s only fitting. We columnists do, too.
