Year: 2010
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How about really stepping up
Businesses can sense schools’ increasing desperation, “We see a tremendous opportunity for corporate America to step up and help during this time of extreme crisis,” says Micky Freeman, CEO of Educational Funding Partners, a Denver start-up that brokers naming and signage deals for Fortune 1000 companies for everything from school auditoriums and gymnasiums to libraries,…
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Sweet
When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it, and argue about what to do about it after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Glad Tidings of Great Misery
So the Minnesota governor’s race is tied between Mark Dayton and Tom Emmer. The fear is that the recount will take as long as it did for the Coleman/Franken race and that will leave Tim Pawlenty in office along with a Republican majority in both houses through the entire legislative session. That could mean slash…
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Welcome to Mississippi
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune ran a piece in the Sunday paper this week noting that we have a ratio of 759:1 high-school students to guidance counselors.That ratio places us in 49th place in the nation. A spot usually reserved for the state of Mississippi.And if you think that’s bad, we just had an election that put…
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And hopefully good over bad
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.Rupert Murdoch
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Supply & Demand
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.Henry Ford