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Do you drive an import? Is your car a threat to national security?

By Veronique de Rugy If you drive an imported car, as I do, your vehicle may soon be declared a national security risk by the Department of Commerce. If you drive an American-assembled car, your car may also pose a threat to U.S. national security because it inevitably contains…

Succeeding in your business: Sometimes you just gotta be young

By Cliff Ennico “I was let go from a position at a high-technology company earlier this spring. “For the past couple of years, on and off, I have helped an entrepreneur in another state build a high-technology consulting business. He has offered to sell the business to me for a…

New liberal proposals taking casual attitude toward truth and reality

By Fareed Zakaria It’s refreshing to see the Democratic Party bubbling with new ideas. But this new thinking seems starkly different from the party’s reform efforts of the past three decades. The wonky proposals of the Clinton-Obama era were pragmatic and incremental, and they…

Newsletter - 2-25-19

https://slenterprise.com 801-533-0556 --> This week in The Enterprise Monday, February 25, 2019 SLCC aerospace program gets boost from opportunity grant By Brice Wallace A new Salt Lake Community College program aims to produce more skilled workers for Utah's aerospace…

SLCC aerospace program gets boost from opportunity grant

By Brice Wallace A new Salt Lake Community College program aims to produce more skilled workers for Utah’s aerospace industry. The aerospace assembly training program recently got a financial boost from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) board, which provided…

The end of the 'war on coal' brings good news for pair of Utah mines

By John Rogers U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joe Balash has declared, “The war on coal is over.” The pronouncement came following the recent Bureau of Land Management approval of two mining projects in Utah. The Department of the Interior announced that the…

Back in the swim: Seven Peaks to reopen this year

After a 2018 season during which the gates never opened, the Seven Peaks Waterpark in Provo is scheduled to open on Memorial Day Weekend this year, according to a press release from Global Management Amusement Professionals. The Temecula, California-based company operates dozens…

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Feb 24

Supply-chain risk management firms merge

A pair of Utah software-as-a-service companies engaged in the supply-chain risk management industry have merged. Browz LLC of Orem and Avetta LLC, based in Draper, will combine under the Avetta name, the companies said in a statement last week. John Herr, CEO of Avetta, will…

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Feb 24

Housing starts, new home sales soaring in St. George market

The St. George area housing industry continues to zoom, according to the Metrostudy fourth quarter 2018 housing survey released recently. The study found that housing starts and new home closings are up significantly but that production is moving toward attached — and therefore…

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Feb 24

Instructure buys Portfolium

Instructure Inc., a Salt Lake City software-as-a-service technology company, has acquired San Diego-based education software company Portfolium. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Instructure markets its learning software such as Canvas and Bridge to both educational…

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Feb 24

SL Chamber names small-business honorees

The Salt Lake Chamber has announced it annual Small Business Award winners. Honorees were announced at the organization’s Small Business Summit: Ignite & Inspire, held at the Salt Lake City Marriott University Park Hotel and Conference Center. “Small businesses are the beating…

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Feb 24

SVN Auctions to handle UDOT surplus property disposal

SVN Auction Services has been awarded a five-year contract by the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) to create and manage an electronic online auction platform and clearinghouse to streamline sales of surplus real property owned by UDOT. The surplus land auctioning process…

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Feb 24

Editorial Cartoon: National Emergency

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Feb 24

Industry Briefs 2-24-19

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. ACCOUNTING • Tanner LLC , a Salt Lake City-based public accounting firm, has promoted Grady…

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Feb 24

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS 2-24-19

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTS The following are recent financial reports as posted by selected Utah corporations: Nu Skin Nu Skin Enterprises Inc., based in Provo, reported a net loss of $17.8 million, or 32 cents per share, for the fourth quarter of 2018. That compares with net…

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Feb 24

Pillar of the Valley Award recipients announced by the Utah Valley Chamber

The Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce has selected John L. Valentine, Utah County commissioner and chairman of the Utah State Tax Commission, and Janette Callister Hales Beckham and the late Ray E. Beckham as the Pillar of the Valley Award recipients for 2019. They will be honored…

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Feb 24

Business Tech: Hey, Siri; Hey, Alexa: Beware the data you leave behind

By Bahar Ferguson Perhaps you didn’t know that when you speak to someone in a call center, join a conference call, leave a voicemail or ask Alexa for the weather forecast, you are creating data. This compilation of data is one of the many reasons that both Google and Alexa have…

Innovative treatments may require equally innovative payment models

By Veronique de Rugy What Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare-for-all,” former Pres. Obama’s Affordable Care Act and former House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Medicare “premium support” model all have in common is an overemphasis on health insurance coverage — who needs it, who is eligible…

The State of the Union address pushes an ambitious and bold agenda

By Dan Nordberg The important work that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) does was validated by the president in his recent State of the Union address. I believe Pres. Trump articulated an inspiring vision of American greatness. His speech was brimming with optimism,…

Anti-Semitism is spreading through the Islamic world like a cancer

By Fareed Zakaria In recent weeks, attention has focused on two freshman Democratic members of Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both of whom are Muslim and have made critical statements about Israel and its most ardent American supporters. Their tweets and comments have…

The sky is falling, the sky is falling, according to my Democrat friends

By Robert Pembroke The other day, with my wife’s nose buried in paper and ink and my nose buried in my mobile device, I remarked, “Linda, I think your next vehicle should be a pickup.” She immediately responded, “No!” “But Linda, you’d look great in a pickup, wearing a Stetson…

How to mess up a company’s sales: When salespeople can’t do their job

By John Graham Thousands of salespeople work in conditions that are stacked against their success. Even though it’s 2019, the belief persists that “nothing happens until someone sells something.” Repeated so often, no one challenges them. Yet, those six words help explain why…