At Barnes & Noble, investor Ron Burkle filed a new statement with the SEC, reiterating their previous objections to the bookseller’s poison pill and recommending that BN “improve its corporate governance practices by adding three to four new, independent directors to the company’s board of directors.” Barbara’s Bookstore will close its Oak Park, IL location this summer after 20 years there. Yesterday a Cook County judge ruled against the bookseller in a longrunning dispute with their landlord over rent and taxes. Owner Donald Barliant “declined to say where the business would move or if it would remain in Oak Park.”Tribune […]