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Utah home price increase running ahead of nation

Utah home price increases continue to run well above the national average, according to new data released by CoreLogic, a property information and analytics company based in Irvine, California. In the Salt Lake City market, home prices have increased by 9.4 percent since last…

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Jun 11

USTAR tabs Somers as new director

Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) has named Brian Somers as its new managing director, according to a statement from the organization. “We are fortunate to have Brian join our team as managing director,” said Ivy Estabrooke, USTAR executive director. “[He] brings…

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Jun 11

Report: Coal country needs to diversify industry base

Seven of Utah’s 29 counties depend heavily on coal mining and electricity production from coal, but their future prosperity may depend on finding alternatives to coal and the high-paying jobs it provides in the state’s rural economy. Those are conclusions reached in the third of…

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Jun 11

Dominion pulls trigger on Questar name change

In a move that has been widely anticipated since Questar Gas merged with Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc. in September 2016, Dominion Questar has been renamed Dominion Energy after a vote by corporate shareholders. Dominion Energy’s Utah-based natural gas utility will…

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Jun 11

UEC releases pay reports

Utah’s Employers Council recently published two job compensation surveys designed to help Utah organizations keep current and competitive with employee salaries. The 2017 “Utah Benchmark Compensation Survey” (benchmark survey) and the new “Information Technology Compensation…

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Jun 11

St. George's Town & Country Bank merges with People's Intermountain

People’s Intermountain Bank, the parent company of Bank of American Fork, and Town & Country Bank Inc. of St. George have announced an agreement to merge. The Town & Country Bank office and the Bank of American Fork branch in St. George will be combined in January 2018. Upon…

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Jun 11

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS 6-12-17

Sportsman’s Warehouse Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings Inc., based in Midvale, reported a net loss of $4.5 million, or 11 cents per share, for the quarter ended April 29. That compares with net income of $300,000, or 1 cent per share, for the same quarter a year earlier. Net sales…

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Jun 11

Traditional utilities, solar energy companies and public interest groups are seeking an equitable and sustainable rate structure for residential rooftop power generation

Striking a balance By Frances Johnson With settlement discussions underway regarding a proposal from Rocky Mountain Power to alter the rate structure for residential solar customers, many solar companies, interest groups and individual customers are speaking out against the…

Energy sector not exempt from struggle to find qualified workers

By Brice Wallace It’s been a common refrain in Utah: an industry struggling with finding skilled employees. Most often, the focus has been on the high-tech industry, but recently it was the energy sector singing the tune and trying to find ways to make young people aware of the…

Utah is making strides in adopting clean energy and fueling resources and it’s the construction industry leading the way

Investing in the alternative Air quality is a matter everyone cares about — especially in Utah, a state that experiences some of the nation’s most extreme winter inversions. When inversion conditions combine with high levels of particulate matter (PM2.5) the air pollution is…

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Jun 11

Bloomberg exec: We need to think of new energy technologies as mainstream

By Brice Wallace New energy technologies “should not be called alternative energy anymore,” according to an industry watcher. Speaking at the Governor’s Utah Energy Development Summit in Salt Lake City, Ethan Zindler, head of U.S. research for Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance Ltd.…

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Jun 11

Business Tech:Managing your technology department: Work smarter, not harder

By Mike Herrington Managing your businesses technology solutions doesn’t have to be akin to summiting Everest. Cool new tools allow you to work smarter and not harder, achieving your business technology objectives with relative ease. As a teenager growing up in Minnesota, I was…

The ‘dead on arrival’ Trump budget gets credit for spotlighting needed cuts

By Veronique de Rugy Love it or hate it, the recently proposed 2018 federal budget is dead on arrival. Some say that’s because it’s unrealistic. Some contend that it’s too harsh on discretionary spending and/or too soft on calling for needed reform to some mandatory programs.…

Trump’s ‘elemental’ approach may cost U.S. leadership of Western world

By Fareed Zakaria We now have a Trump Doctrine, and it is, in its conception at least, the most radical departure from a bipartisan American foreign policy since 1945. In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and national security…

Prescription for small-business rebirth: The 15 percent solution

By Robert Pembroke Recently I had a conversation with my daughter about why she left her private practice and went to work for a large medical center. She said there were two reasons: First, it was very difficult to keep up with all the paperwork required to collect money from…

Industry Briefs 6-12-17

Industry Briefs are provided as a free service to our readers. Company news information may be sent to brice@slenterprise.com. The submission deadline is one week before publication. AGRICULTURE • The Downtown Farmers Mark et has opened at Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 W., Salt Lake…

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Jun 11