- Clayton Kent | July 09, 2009 8:12 PM | Novato, CA
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At the Burr Oak Cemetery in the southern suburbs of Chicago, lay the remains of a number of prominent figures from the African-American Community. It is also the site where four cemetery workers...
- Paul Kiesel | April 02, 2009 3:16 PM | Los Angeles, CA
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Cardinal Francis George, Chicago's eighth Archbishop, is ripping Notre Dame for inviting President Obama to speak at the school's commencement.
From The Huffington Post:
[. . .] Cardinal Francis...
- Paul Kiesel | January 06, 2009 3:33 PM | Los Angeles, CA
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Just before the end of last year, Ford Motor Company moved to dismiss a case brought by participants of Ford's employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) on the ground that participants failed to state a...
- Paul Kiesel | December 19, 2008 8:51 PM | Los Angeles, CA
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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...
- Paul Kiesel | December 16, 2008 8:07 PM | Los Angeles, CA
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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...
- Paul Kiesel | December 15, 2008 4:05 PM | Los Angeles, CA
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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...
- Paul Kiesel | December 11, 2008 7:05 PM | Los Angeles, CA
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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...
- Paul Kiesel | December 11, 2008 4:55 PM | Los Angeles, CA
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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...
- Paul Kiesel | December 10, 2008 9:47 PM | Los Angeles, CA
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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...