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...Kate Gosselin. Shoddy workmanship, cost overruns, rampant dishonesty - anyone who has been through a kitchen renovation can tell you how truly wretched life can be. And that was if you could find a skilled craftsman to handle a project. In flusher times, it was darn near impossible to hire anyone but a fly-by-nighter to fix a faucet, let alone build a master suite, for under six figures...
...rivalries between shops remain. Back on the Long Beach Pike [in California], artists used to drive cars into each other's shops. They'd hire Marines to go in there and beat up everybody. These days, that doesn't really happen anymore. If you have a rivalry with another shop it's usually a good-spirited competition. Occasionally bad things do happen; there was one shop in Portland that was really, really bad. It was on the outskirts of town and another shop run by real professionals started up out there, and the warfare between these two places just escalated...
Those seeking to pay the bills through full-time journalism could find different paymasters. The Associated Press recently started taking investigative reports from four nonprofit journalism groups. And if newspapers can't afford investigations, advocacy groups and think tanks - which already hire research pros - could do their own: a kind of piecemeal return to the old partisan press...
...Booker's leadership. Many city workers earn a handsome living - Newark has 264 municipal employees who make $100,000 or more. Plus, during 2007 and through the first eight months of 2008, Booker signed some 160 executive orders either giving an employee a pay raise or starting a new hire at a salary above the minimum set by civil-service guidelines. Some orders gave low-level workers a more livable wage. Others were a bit gratuitous. For example, one aide went from making $107,225 to $118,607. Isn't 107 grand enough to live on? The fiscal impact...
...folks don't realize is there are tons of layoffs on Wall Street even during a boom. What they value is not worker stability but constant market simultaneity. If mortgages aren't the best thing, it's, "Let's get rid of the mortgage desk and we'll hire them back in a year." People were working a hundred hours a week, but constantly talking about job insecurity. Wall Street bankers understand that they are liquid people. It's part of their culture. I had bankers telling me, "I might not be at my job next year...