What’s at Stake for Brian Tierney?
Times are tough at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, where 68 employees were laid off this week following publisher Brian P. Tierney’s telling the newspapers’ unions in January that the company needs to cut 10 percent of its costs by summer or fall or face “a dire situation.”
But could the tough times also be affecting Tierney?
Times are tough at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, where 68 employees were laid off this week following publisher Brian P. Tierney’s telling the newspapers’ unions in January that the company needs to cut 10 percent of its costs by summer or fall or face “a dire situation.”
But could the tough times also be affecting Tierney?
Pete Musser’s 
In a city plagued in the last few years by the loss of a number of old-school independent bookstores (most recently Hibberd’s, back in January), word that Robin’s was closing its used-book annex at 19th and Chestnut streets had local bibliophiles bracing themselves for the worst. But bushy-bearded proprietor Larry Robin insists that this isn’t the beginning of the end for his main 13th Street shop, and that the decision to stop the lease at the annex is part of an effort to reconfigure the 71-year-old business into a more modern, laptop-friendly haunt. 
The Wall Street Journal has a lengthy story today about 
The boob magnates of Rick’s Cabaret International, Inc. have signed a letter of intent to take over Delaware Avenue’s Crazy Horse Too strip club. The CH2, opened in January 2006, will be renamed and refurbished with Rick’s “signature” brand, meaning their going to add a sports bar, a high-end steakhouse, and most likely, double the price of lap dances. 
Foxwoods Resort Casino will pay $1 million to the Special Services District in Pennsport to cover improvements around the area of Reed and Columbus, just 500 feet from the proposed site of its noisy, money-sucking vagrant magnet.
