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Industry Briefs - 3-12-18

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. BANKING • Central Bank has announced several personnel changes. Matt Packard has served as bank…

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Mar 11

Newsletter 3-5-18

https://slenterprise.com 801-533-0556 --> This week in The Enterprise Monday, March 5, 2018 Point of the Mountain authority gets legislative committee OK By Brice WallaceA bill creating an authority to oversee development of the current site of the Utah State Prison in Draper…

Point of the Mountain authority gets legislative committee OK

By Brice Wallace A bill creating an authority to oversee development of the current site of the Utah State Prison in Draper advanced unanimously last week from a legislative committee. The House Government Operations Committee voted 8-0 to send the measure to the full House. It…

Life sciences industry accounts for large part of Utah's economy

More than 1,000 Utah life sciences companies provide 34,352 jobs and have an annual combined payroll in excess of $2.7 billion, according to a new report from Bio Utah, the nonprofit trade association serving the industry. The organization released its 2018 Life Sciences late…

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Mar 4

Current situation optimism wanes a bit for Utahns

A slight drop how Utahns feel about their present situation combined with optimism about business and job prospects kept the Zions Bank Utah Consumer Attitude Index (CAI) unchanged from January to February at 117.9 points. In comparison, the national Consumer Confidence Index…

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Mar 4

Inland port bill irks Mayor Biskupski

By Brice Wallace A bill creating an authority to oversee the establishment of an inland port in Salt Lake City’s Northwest Quadrant has raised the ire of Mayor Jackie Biskupski. The text of SB234 was unveiled last week and was criticized by Biskupski as seizing the city’s…

Dwyer Group acquires SLC’s Real Property Management

Salt Lake City-based Property Management Business Solutions LLC has been acquired by Dwyer Franchising LLC of Waco, Texas. Billed as the largest property management franchising company in North America, the Salt Lake City firm does business as Real Property Management.…

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Mar 4

PC's Talisker Club sold

Storied Development LLC, a Watkinsville, Georgia-based developer and marketer of private-club communities, has acquired Park City’s Talisker Club. The transaction includes the Tuhaye golf and boating development, the Tower Club and residential sites in Empire Pass near Deer…

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Mar 4

Operations to resume at San Juan Co. mines

Several uranium and vanadium mines in northeast San Juan County that have been idle for several years may soon resume operations, thanks to approvals received last week by Energy Fuels Inc. from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service for the company to…

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Mar 4

Officials: Tourism unchanged by Bears Ears designation

In the wake of changes to a national monument boundary, officials in Kane and Garfield counties are reminding the public that “tourism remains the same.” {mprestriction ids="1,3"}The Kane and Garfield county tourism offices and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently issued…

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Mar 4

Dynatronics to restructure; Enright to take reins as chairman of board

Dynatronics Corp., based in Cottonwood Heights, has announced a restructuring of its leadership necessitated by the resignation of founder Kelvyn Cullimore as chairman, president and CEO. Cullimore will continue to serve as a non-employee member of the board, the company said in…

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Mar 4

Loyal Cos. acquires LinkTrust

Provo-based Loyal Companies, a private equity firm that specializes in technology and media, has acquired marketing software company LinkTrust, also based in Provo. {mprestriction ids="1,3"} With the acquisition, Chad MacKay, managing partner of Loyal Companies, will become CEO…

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Mar 4

Utah workers most cooperative in U.S.

Workers in Utah are the most cooperative in the country, according to a study released by the career testing and matching website Sokanu. The research examined professional characteristics of over 180 personality and interest types to reveal the states with the highest volume of…

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Mar 4

Conflicts in your office? Here are six leadership keys to resolution

By Richard Tyson Recent statistics suggest that as many as seven out of 10 employees are disengaged at work. One contributing factor is the disruption caused by interpersonal conflicts between employees. Clearly, daily on-the-job interactions between people provide fertile…

Should infrastructure cost be borne by state, local or federal government?

By Veronique de Rugy With the Trump administration’s proposal to add $200 billion of federal funding for transportation projects over the next decade, there’s a renewed debate about whether we should raise the federal gas tax. One side makes the argument that a…

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Mar 4

Like the rest of the world, America is not immune from democratic decay

By Fareed Zakaria A few weeks ago, the Economist Intelligence Unit published the 10th edition of its Democracy Index, a comprehensive ranking of nations that looks at 60 measures in five categories, ranging from electoral process to civil liberties. For the second consecutive…

Save us from bureaucratic gremlins with a 'rule-in, rule-out' law for everyone

By Robert Pembroke The other day I went down to the state of Utah Driver License Division at the fairgrounds to renew my driver’s license and promptly proceeded to flunk the eye exam. The last time I renewed my driver’s license, I cannot remember having had my peripheral vision…

Industry Briefs - 3-5-18

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. ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT • Quarters Arcade Bar has opened in the Club Manhattan, 5 E. 400 S., Salt…

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Mar 4

Editorial Cartoon: Election Fraud

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Mar 4