Hoboken Quiznos Suddenly Closes

Last week the Quiznos location at 1st & Hudson in Hoboken was open for business like it always was. Today when I went over there to get a chicken mesquite for Steve, the door was locked, lights off, and signs were on the door and window with "Retail Space Available" in big letters. There was no drop off over the past few weeks in the quality of the items or service, which is usually how business closings are proceeded. I'm very sad, as I will miss having a small chicken carbonara on white. If anyone knows anything about why the store suddenly went out of business, I would love to know. I called the non-emergency number for the Hoboken Police to ask if there was a robbery or break in that caused the store to close, and the officer said he had not heard of a robbery/break in at Quiznos, but that he also had not heard that the store was no longer operating. (I found that odd given how it is less than a block from the station, and I have seen many officers in Quiznos eating lunch over the years.) When I searched for information about how corporate works with their franchises, which are privately owned, I found this link: http://www.bluemaumau.org/6939/quiznos_management_team_attempts_answer_questions
Nothing mentioned in the article would seem important enough to result in the 1st & Hudson location closing its doors though. I am very shocked because the closing is so sudden and without warning. I notified Hoboken 411 and would be interested in any info anyone may have.
To see where the location used to be, click on the link and google maps will show you the corner, with the Quiznos sign visible. (It wouldn't let me save that pic and upload it onto the posting.)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Hudson+St+%26+1st+St,+Hoboken,+NJ+07030&sll=40.739535,-74.029806&sspn=0.006666,0.013561&ie=UTF8&ll=40.738982,-74.029806&spn=0.006666,0.013561&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=40.737262,-74.029797&panoid=rue84Suo3vV_dtrMyZlTXQ&cbp=12,315,,1,5.000000000000001

Objectives for Obama: Part 2

The election of 2000 was historic, and the election of 2004 also had rumors of "irregularities". The coverage by Rolling Stone was excellent, while much of the mainstream media was too shy to really grab all of the facts and run with them. The 2008 film Recount keeps this issue in the public eye, where it deserves attention.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000771/
Is looking into the irregularities and possible questionable practices of the Bush campaign and Diebold something that the Obama admin might add to their "To Do" list? As I have previously mentioned, Rolling Stone has been very persuasive in suggesting that both elections require another look from those in a position to do something about the potential evidence they may find. I read a blog posting once by someone who lived in Toledo, Ohio in 2004 who said local media reported finding abandoned cars with trucks full of votes for Kerry. Once re-elected, I am sure the Bush admin made those articles "disappear". When it comes to "Change" and "Hope" one thing I would like to add to the list are the misadventures of the 2000 and 2004 elections. Has anyone looked at the chart for Diebold, DBD, from 2000-2004 lately?

Objectives for Obama: Part 1

President Obama has been in office for a bit more than a month, and he has been getting quite a bit done. One tidbit that I heard is that at his sit down dinners with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, each person at the dinner table talks about the "roses" of their day, being good things, and "thorns," being of course bad things. Its great that Obama has time to eat a family dinner each night, given how much there is for him to do.
One topic the blogosphere is abuzz with is that Obama should have someone investigating the various contributors of the housing/credit crisis for securities and ethics violations. So far, the Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin were indicted on charges of conspiracy, securities fraud, and wire fraud. Mr. Cioffi was also charged with insider trading. http://www.nysun.com/business/us-sees-crime-in-the-credit-crisis/80408/
The indictment happened almost a year ago. The Madoff matter has had the SEC on the defense since last November, since he surrendered to them, and whistler blower Harry Markopolos has been telling the SEC that Madoff was a fraud since 1999 without anyone at the agency taking sufficient action to unearth the fraud over the past 9 years.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28310980/
What I would be interested in would be an investigation into what the CEOs/CFOs/COOs of AIG, Wachovia, Countrywide, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, and Bear Stearns were doing with their own portfolios of their company's stock and options while they were going on CNBC reassuring investors their firms were well capitalized with nothing to worry about, when that couldn't have been farther from the truth. (Each situation has differnt details, but the overall ongoings were similar.) Although the fate of each firm and CEO is different, were the CEOs selling or speeding up the sales of their stock along the way during their reassurance proclamations? (This reminds me of the Joe Nacchio situation.) Since most of that info is public, I would be surprised if any of that had gone on and it not been unearthed by the fabulous CNBC reporters by now. Yet it wouldn't surprise me if someone who knew what they were looking for were able to dig something along the lines of this up. Does Obama have this on his "To Do" list?