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Buy local–for the right reasons!
Business Commentary Life

Buy local–for the right reasons!

January 20, 2016January 20, 20162 min read

This image appears on Facebook every so often, and it makes an appeal to “buying local” by, in part, disparraging the “big chains” as being

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Business, community, Life, Quality, Small Business
Commentary government Life

Private Rights vs Public Good–who should win?

January 29, 2012February 5, 20123 min read

Update:  The Citizen, Bobby Maguire, was given permission to use a 33′ right of way.  In exchange for his use (not ownership) of 1/2 an

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Business, Development, Fish and Game Commission, Life, Nature, PA Park Commission, Rose Valley Lake
Business Commentary government Penn State

what is transparency?

January 9, 20121 min read

Transparency has been in the news not only with the occupy movement, but also with penn state following the big scandal.  But what is transparency?

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Business, government, Penn State, Transparency
Business

Ojime Beads for Jewelry and Miniatures

June 12, 2011June 12, 20111 min read

My mother-in-law has a website (jar-jaf.com) where she sells “findings” that are used for making miniature lighting and for jewelry.  The latest she has added

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Business, findings, jaf-jar, jar-jaf, jewelry, miniatures, ojime
Business Commentary

Facebook Capitulates

February 18, 20092 min read

The pressure worked on Facebook (Again.) According to this story in the New York Times, Facebook has once again made a change, angered their users,

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Business, customer service, customers, Facebook, policies, terms of service, TOS
Business Commentary Education ServiceOps

Best and Worst Service Stories

January 19, 20091 min read

I would love to have you share YOUR best and worst service stories here.  I hope to use them with my course in Service Operations,

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Business, mngmt523, ServiceOps, stories

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