Sale of the Trib: is it a Zell out?
The toughest job in journalism over the last couple of months belongs to a St. Louisan and Washington University alum (class of 1979) who has been trying to make chicken salad out of pickled pigs' feet. He's Gary Weitman, son of one of my closest friends, Herb...

Book it: best bets for board reading; From a hotelier's secret to the secret of GE's success, from being rich to being an imperfect board member, leadership insights from a roundup of new books on business.
Building blocks of the GE juggernaut From The Secret to GE's Success by William E. Rothschild, copyright 2007 by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Published by McGraw-Hill (www.books.mcgraw-hill.com). IN 1950, CHARLIE WILSON selected his executive assistant, Ralph Cordiner, as his successor to lead General Electric, while...

Donating stock to the VRG.
The purpose of this article is to encourage you to consider creative ways to donate to The Vegetarian Resource Group or other nonprofits for outreach projects. It is not intended to be used for financial, tax, or legal advice. Each person's financial and tax situation is unique, and the...

Board guidance for going private: five critical debating points for boards with an ESOP transaction on the agenda.
YOU ARE AN independent director of what we'll call Micro Technology Corp. (MTC), a small-cap publicly traded biotech firm incorporated in Delaware. MTC did an initial public offering in late 1998 at a price of $17 per share. The stock price skyrocketed to $175 per share in early 2000....

Special equity grants: do they create value?
If mega-grants are to be an effective device in creating shareholder value, they must have special performance characteristics. Close observers of the executive compensation scene have noticed attention being paid by the business press to special types of equity grants to executives. For the most part, the attention has...

Leftists for Hayek.
Steven Horwitz's review of Theodore A. Burczak's Socialism After Hayek is unwarrantedly generous to the author ("Leftists for Hayek," July). Burczak appears to have missed the last 20 years of F.A. Hayek's life, during which he described in great detail why the market system can function at its higher...

Ukrainian financial markets in 1998: before and after the crash.
Introduction In a situation common to many emerging markets, in 1998 equity shares in Ukrainian firms were priced low relative to potential earnings. There was reason for greater pessimism about Ukraine than about other emerging economies in Eastern Europe, both those formerly part of the Soviet Union...

STUBBY BOTTLE, CLASSY BREW.
Byline: Lewis Taylor The Register-Guard Micro-brew lovers and macro-brew lovers may finally be able to share a half-rack. Full Sail Brewery, the employee-owned craft brewer from Hood River known for its amber ale, pale ale and other high-end beers, has introduced a new lager that's...

Keeping United airborne.
Byline: The Register-Guard United Airlines' bankruptcy is the seventh largest in the nation's history, but its significance ranks higher. United isn't some company like Adelphia or WorldCom that no one had ever heard of five years ago, pumped up by gas from the high-tech bubble. It's a...

Radio history.
(Editor's note: Information for this article came from the St. Louis Media Archives at the St. Louis Public Library.) If anyone ever compiled a list of troubled radio frequencies, 1380 kHz in St. Louis would probably be in the nation's top 10. The first broadcast license for what...