California: N.y.

July 3, 2009 - 03:39 pm

Number of references to public employee unions in NYT's 8,000-word look on why California is a disaster: Zero. I repeat: Zero.

I begin reading the long story by Mark Leibovich in this coming Sunday's N.Y. Times magazine with dread. I have literally not read a single story by an East Coast-based newspaper or magazine in five years that goes beyond the...

February 10, 2009 - 03:00 am
NEWS FEED: Los Angeles Times

About Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman Age: 52

Hometown: Raised in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. Lives in Atherton, Calif.

Education: Princeton University, bachelor's in economics. Harvard Business School, MBA

Career: President and chief executive of EBay, 1998 to 2008. Executive positions at Procter & Gamble, Hasbro, Stride Rite, Disney and Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD)

Source: Times reporting