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Health Reform Law’s

As time passes more and more employers are becoming subject to the health reform law’s employer mandates. Starting in 2016, every company with at least 50 full-time-equivalent employees are required to offer affordable health coverage to full-timers and their...

Another Service Provider ceases because of Springfield

Good afternoon everyone, Today I received 5 calls from different clients informing me that their homemaker from Cure Home Care advised them that today would be their last day of service. The reason given was that Cure was not able to pay their employee salaries any...

Airport Security

Airport Security will be even more fun at O’Hare shortly.  The feds are expected to implement their rules in 2016 only allowing drivers licenses that have security features such as holograms as valid ID for passing through security. Looking at my driver’s license I...

Generation Z is coming

There are 70 million kids born after 1998.  They are expected to start making their mark. They are defined as those who have never known the internet to not be widely available and necessary. Gen Z-ers are expected to continue to challenge merchants, and eventually...

Urban Gardening

This is a topic that I have been reading about for years.  Actually the first time I did it was 100 years ago in a “Spenser” novel by Robert B. Parker.  The bad guys had a roof garden on top of their fortified building to feed the gang and minimize the need to leave...

The New Metrics

There seem to be new metrics in place to value and evaluate businesses.  I have heard this referred to as the “Unicorn Syndrome”.  There are mythical valuations of businesses that have special valuations that are defying traditional measures. Some of those named in...

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