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Dear Idaho Tea Party, Congratulations on your April 15 demonstration at the statehouse. As a former radical from back in the bad old days of the Vietnam War, I have to congratulate you for proving that protest and patriotism are ...

Consider the world awaiting today’s high school seniors. Continuing their education is hardly an option they can forego, yet the application process for many colleges and universities has become as daunting as that facing adults applying for highly sought-after corporate ...

A reader advisory: if you are of the firm ideological persuasion that the words “government” and “efficient” are not only mutually exclusive, but a form of heresy when combined in the same sentence, then you might want to skip this ...

As appealing as the prospect of full-time employment is right about now, I’d have to think twice if someone offered me a public relations gig at a major bank. I don’t imagine I could describe the challenge any more prosaically ...

In last week’s blog I suggested that the Tea Party movement take on the cause of wresting control of our nation’s food supply from the forces of Big Government farm policy and return us to a more balanced and sustainable ...

I know my faithful Idaho Business Review readers (thanks again, Mom) must be reading this blog title and double-checking the byline to be sure which “Michael” this is. Yep, it’s really me, folks. I’ve seen the error of my leftist-leaning, ...

If you ever wondered just where the buck stops when it comes to making the hard choices in balancing environmental and business priorities, the answer is very clear to a downtown Boise restaurateur.  For Dave Krick, owner and founder of ...

It’s not that I’m a cynic, but for me bumper sticker platitudes such as “when one door closes, another opens” offer cold comfort in the face of life’s vagaries. Take, for example, the recent announcement that Macy’s will be closing ...

Well, it’s finally come to this for southern Idaho’s finest business publication: they’ve asked me to contribute a weekly blog to their otherwise highly professional web site.  Now I know how Click and Clack must have felt when NPR approached ...