financial times

• Warner Music Group has signed on to Nokia's Comes With Music plan. Of the four majors, EMI is the only one that has not inked a deal with Nokia. (Financial Times)

The Financial Times has reported that Terra Firma is considering Elio Leoni Sceti, whose tenure with consumer products company Reckitt Benckiser was preceded by a stint at Proctor & Gamble, to run EMI's recorded music division. Mr.

• A report says the first Portuguese citizen convicted of illegally downloading music has received a 90-day prison sentence. (The Portugal News)

• Arbitron has released some preliminary results from RADAR 97. It says U.S. radio has 235 million listeners every week, and the format reaches 95% of Black Non-Hispanics and 96% of Hispanics age 25-54 each week. (Radio Ink)

A lot of people are worried about these unstable financial times. A few years ago Dave Chappelle tried to help America, but I’m not sure how many people listened. I don’t think you have to be down with the Wu to understand how funny this is, but references to the Ol’ Dirty Bastard help if you know a little something about him (or Dirt McGirt).

Fewer cars can be driven home
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer •(Tennessean) June 2, 2008

Lavish campaign expenditures for public offices with relatively meager salaries start to make sense when on looks at the back end:

Two former executives of a large mortgage company were arrested this week and charged with fraud.

This is turning into a running joke. We keep hearing that TDOT will listen to the people on toll roads. At the first meeting the public spoke up. If I recall correctly 18 people spoke out against toll roads 2 spoke in favor. The commission voted in favor of doing an expensive study for toll roads.

You may not feel the big pinch at the moment, but a very frightening thing has been occurring to me with increasing regularity; I have been receiving a steadily increasing number of phone calls from average working people who, having seen my website about homelessness, have begun calling me to ask for advice on how to stave off evictions, foreclosures and what