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...sheriff and seven bail-bonding companies that have been allowed to set up shop inside the jail without paying rent. State law prohibits bondsmen from having such access. Investigators are also looking for possible wrongdoing at three of the bonding companies, including one formerly owned by civil rights pioneer Hosea Williams. Apart from not paying rent, the companies may have been allowed by former sheriffs to operate without posting $150,000 cash or property bonds, contrary to jail policy. After being sworn in, Derwin planned to evict the bail bondsmen, which would have had deep financial consequences. A legit bonding...
...search for the middle ground on such issues as education, public safety and HMO reform. Because he has a reputed campaign chest of some $21 million, there is already talk of a presidential bid in 2004. He likes to be compared with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pioneer of the moderate Third Way school of politics. "Make progress where there is already common ground--that is what I believe in," Davis told TIME in an interview last week in Sacramento. But with utilities going broke, out-of-state generators piling up huge profits and consumer groups resisting any increase...
...once owned by Howard Hughes and a pioneer of flying's early reputation for glamour and luxury, would disappear into American. But most of TWA's 20,000 employees, the majority of whom work out of the carrier's home base in St. Louis, Mo., would be retained. TWA is history in any event. The company was down to its last $20 million before the bankruptcy court allowed American to provide new financing...
...designers, DJs and other fashion-conscious urbanites. So with partner Doug Herrick they took over a former halfway house in a downtown neighborhood and created Ace, Seattle's new haven for flophouse chic--a mode that could be hospitality's next wave. "They're outsiders," says Ian Schrager, the pioneer of hip hotels. "Which is the way we were, and which I like...
This trend is the logical flip side to bringing your home into the office, a movement I was a proud pioneer in as early as 1990, when I routinely and unapologetically phoned the plumber from work. Now, as workplace tools like beepers, pagers and e-mail make an inevitable incursion into your life, you can harness their usefulness in the home too. If you keep a calendar for work on your Palm, cannibalize the idea to create a master family calendar to keep track of soccer games and piano lessons. Give colleagues and teachers a single e-mail address...