There’s been no shortage of articles on Wisconsin’s tax climate recently.
Daily Archives: February 7, 2005
Microsoft Seeks Latitude/Longitude Patent
Slashdot discussion Microsoft’s recent PTO office application for compact text encoding of latitude/longitude coordinates, in which the software giant explains how a floating-point number can also be represented as a less-precise integer that’s displayed in base-30 notation!
Drexel Burnham Lambert Alumni Article: Brewer’s Mark Attanasio
New Brewer CEO Mark Attanasio gets a few mentions in Jenny Anderson’s article on the Drexel Diaspora:
Several other former Drexel employees are managing billions for pension funds, endowments, wealthy people and one another – often using junk bonds. Mark L. Attanasio, a senior vice president at Drexel when it collapsed, is a managing partner at Trust Company of the West, a $109.7 billion money management firm. Last month, he bought the Milwaukee Brewers for more than $220 million.
Interviews with more than two dozen former employees showed that, far from being embarrassed by their connection to Drexel, most retain an almost cultlike devotion to the firm and much of what it stood for. Few of them were crucial players in building Drexel’s core franchise, junk bonds. And few of them were especially close to Mr. Milken, who has since survived cancer, established two major foundations devoted to cancer research and become a major investor in an education initiative, Knowledge Universe Inc.
Attanasio also worked at Global Crossing with another ex-Drexel player – Gary Winnick.
Photos Verboten: Chicago Publicly Financed Sculpture!
Chicago spent $270 million on its Millennium Park, placing a big public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in the middle of it, bought with public money. Woe betide any member of the public who tries to photograph this sculpture, though: it’s a copyrighted sculpture and Chicago is spending even more money policing Chicagoans who try to photograph it and make a record of what their tax-dollars bought.