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Thanks to Garff family, UofU has new home for its MBA programs

The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has dedicated the Robert H. and Katharine B. Garff Building, a 150,000-square-foot building that houses the school’s MBA, Professional MBA, Executive MBA and MBA Online programs. The building also supports an…

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Oct 15

Utah businesses mostly OK with NAFTA revision

On Sept. 30, the United States, Canada and Mexico finalized a trade deal promised by the Trump administration that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Assuming it is approved by the legislatures in the three countries, the new deal — called the United…

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Oct 15

Construction begins at Pluralsight campus

Pluralsight Inc., a Utah-based enterprise technology learning software developer, has broken ground on a new worldwide headquarters in Draper. Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard and company executives were joined by Gov. Gary R. Herbert and Draper Mayor Troy Walker…

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Oct 15

Utah companies expect to give employees 3 percent raises

Utah’s Employers Council has released results from its 2018 Planning Packet Survey which highlights projections about compensations budgets for local companies for 2019 and compares them with the current year. The survey projects a 3 percent average employee pay increase for…

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Oct 15

Utah's fiscal condition? 8th best

he Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, has release its annual report on the fiscal health of the states. Utah comes out No. 8 in the study called “Ranking the States by Fiscal Condition.” The study’s authors, Eileen Norcross and Olivia Gonzalez,…

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Oct 15

Web to Door launches in Utah

Web to Door Corp., a subsidiary of Supurva Healthcare Group Inc. of Oakland, California, has opened an office in Salt Lake City, Utah and hired its first five employees on the first day of interviews. The company will operate as On Courier 365 in Utah. The company said it hopes…

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Oct 15

Incentive to help HeathEquity add 500 employees at expanded headquarters

By Brice Wallace HealthEquity Inc. will add up to 500 employees over the next seven years at a new building adjacent to its current Draper headquarters. The company made the announcement last week after being approved for a tax credit incentive by the Governor’s Office of…

Dominion ordered to cease third-party billings

In response to complaints from the public, the Division of Public Utilities and the Office of Consumer Services, the Utah Public Service Commission has ordered Dominion Energy to stop using its billing process to collect charges for third-party services unless the customers have…

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Oct 15

State looking for private firms to operate some of its golf courses

Some of the state’s golf courses currently operated by Utah’s Division of Parks and Recreation may soon be operated by private management firms. The state agency has posted a request for proposals seeking 10-year agreements to operate four state-owned courses. The courses…

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Oct 15

Aligned Energy opens Utah data center

Aligned Energy, a Plano, Texas-based data center company, has opened its Utah headquarters in West Jordan. The 294,000-square-foot building will serve as a colocation data center supporting both cloud providers and enterprise customers. “We’re excited to announce the official…

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Oct 15

Utah Foundation’s Quality of Life Index declines despite economy

Utahns continue to worry about their cost of housing and that has resulted in a drop in the Utah Foundation’s Quality of Life Index. The index is down a point from last year and three points over the past five years, standing at 70 out of 100. The “Quality of Life Index:…

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Oct 15

Utah gets failing grade for not expanding on FMLA protection

A new report from the National Partnership for Women & Families, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, gives Utah a grade of F for failing to provide basic workplace protections that go beyond federal law. “Raising Expectations” analyzes state laws and regulations governing…

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Oct 15

Wells Fargo/Gallup poll: Investors not ready for surprise expenses

According to a new Wells Fargo/Gallup survey, while individual U.S. investors remain optimistic about the economy, many say they are one emergency away from encountering expenses that could cripple their finances. Barely half of investors — 55 percent — describe themselves as…

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Oct 15

Editorial Cartoon: Victim of Own Success

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Oct 15

Industry Briefs 10-16-18

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. COMMUNICATIONS • Salt Lake City officials are telling residents to expect more small cell…

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Oct 15

Government-provided parental leave won't result in hoped-for free lunch

By Veronique de Rugy In recent months, a vocal group of conservatives has joined with Democrats in arguing that it’s time for the government to correct a blatant market failure: the private sector’s inability to provide sufficient paid leave. A new study suggests otherwise. The…

The Supreme Court, democracy are real victims of the Kavanaugh mess

By Fareed Zakaria The most consequential casualty of the recent confirmation battle is not Christine Blasey Ford or Brett Kavanaugh. It is the Supreme Court and, thus, American democracy. The court was one of the last bastions in Washington that towered above the political fray.…

Most of today’s activists bent on humiliation and destruction of authority

By Robert Pembroke Nathan Glazer, 95, is one of the last living intellectuals who helped shape U.S. policy during the 1960s and 1970s. During a teaching stint in 1964 at the University of California Berkeley, he said that radical students who sought social reform practiced…