Tennis great and local charter-school developer Andre Agassi and Bobby Turner, chairman and chief executive of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors in Los Angeles, will announce today that they’re launching the Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, an investment group designed to help some of the nation’s 5,400 charter schools and their 1.7 million students find permanent school buildings.
A scarcity of more than 200 medications, caused largely by fewer manufacturers wanting to produce less profitable generics, means hospitals must often rush to find substitute drugs so that patients can get the treatment they need.
Shaquille O’Neal had more than 28,000 points and almost 4 million Twitter followers. And on Wednesday he announced his retirement on Twitter. Along with a midafternoon tweet saying, “im retiring,” O’Neal included a link to a 16-second video of him saying, “We did it; 19 years, baby. Thank you very much. That’s why I’m telling you first: I’m about to retire. Love you. Talk to you soon.”
