Easing the trauma of divorce
POSTED: Friday, February 3, 2012 at 09:54 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Boise attorney Michelle Michaud was just 3 years old when her parents’ marriage fell apart. This was in the 1980s, an era when the mechanics of separating a household and its children were still in their primitive stages.
Michelle’s parents’ divorce dragged on for six years. The process was so adversarial that at the age of [...]
Keep talking about higher ed; they’re listening!
POSTED: Monday, January 30, 2012 at 10:35 AM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Business managers and owners tend to keep a low profile in the debate over public education. During the conversations in and outside of the Statehouse last year about the Department of Education’s reform plan, voices from businesses were drowned out by other stakeholders.
There are, of course, exceptions. One is the Boise-based Idaho Business Coalition for [...]
How to keep your church from getting fleeced
POSTED: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 05:21 PM PTBY: Gina Bliss
Over the years, I’ve heard many, many sermons on tithing. It’s a difficult topic for pastors, priests and rabbis. I’ve heard great sermons on the topic, and I’ve heard some that were not great.
Churches are businesses, in a way. Their missions are not about money, but their missions can’t be carried out without money. So, [...]
NLRB rule makes it easier for unions to organize
POSTED: Monday, January 23, 2012 at 04:55 PM PTBY: Anne Wilde
Historically, the holidays are a quiet time of year in the workforce as employees take time to enjoy the season. However, this year was different.
Although many Idaho employers might not recognize it yet, this recent holiday season dropped a lump of coal in employers’ stockings when the National Labor Relations Board issued new ambush election [...]
New development for Nampa includes streamlined Wal-Mart
POSTED: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 04:36 PM PTBY: Jennifer Gonzalez
I live in Boise and don’t make it out to Nampa that often these days. However, as I took a quick drive through Idaho’s second largest city over the weekend, I was surprised (again) by all the development that is going on. With that, I figured it was time to put in a call to [...]
Time to clean up your act
POSTED: Monday, January 16, 2012 at 04:41 PM PTBY: Molly O'Leary
BE IT RESOLVED … to clean up your business “act” in 2012. Here are a few suggestions of areas where most small businesses would do well to pay more attention:
1. Take inventory. No, not the widget-counting kind (although if you’re in the widget-selling business that type of inventory is likely in your future, anyway). A [...]
Introducing Anthony Lyons
POSTED: Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:54 PM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
Tags: Capital City Development Corp.
If you’re a decision-maker in Boise, chances are you’ll soon meet up with Anthony Lyons, the new executive director of Capital City Development Corp.
Lyons, who started at the job Dec. 5, is making a point of talking with everyone who might be able to help him get a handle on the city and what’s happening [...]
Co-operating with the customers
POSTED: Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 01:50 PM PTBY: Anne Wallace Allen
It’s well known that the Texas-based Whole Foods is building a 35,000-square-foot store on the east side of downtown Boise this year.
Meanwhile, the Colorado-based Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage is hiring staff for a store it’s setting up next month on Milwaukee Ave. in Boise. And the Spokane-based Rosauers Supermarkets, Inc. is hard at work [...]
Exporting for international business growth
POSTED: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 01:08 PM PTBY: Christine Nicholas
When your domestic market is anemic, you might look to foreign markets for growth opportunities. Growing your business internationally involves a number of legal issues.
Exporting is a traditional and well-established method of reaching foreign markets, and involves the marketing and direct sale of domestically produced goods in another country. It can be done over your [...]
The faces of law firm financial impropriety
POSTED: Monday, December 26, 2011 at 05:13 PM PTBY: Ed Poll
Financial fraud should, in theory, never be a concern for a law firm, where ethical considerations must predominate.
After all, Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4 states clearly that “[i]t is professional misconduct for a lawyer to … commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer … [or [...]
