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  • February 3, 2006
Thomson: Is more money best for schools?

Research, combined with good old-fashioned common sense, suggests that the best students come from solid families, not from big spending.

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  • February 3, 2006
Rauch: Overvalued

Here's my contention: The stock and bond markets are 30% overvalued based on their historic indicators and current ratios, creating investment risks in both markets.

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  • January 28, 2006
Rod Thomson: Growth: The Policies Should Match the Realities

Growth along the Gulf Coast is an inevitable and necessary reality. Dealing with growth often wanders far from reality.

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  • January 20, 2006
Matt Walsh: Court ruling puts school system ahead of children

The High Court's dissenting minority showed how the majority's anti-voucher arguments were flawed.

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  • January 20, 2006
Lou Lasday: Strategic Segmentation: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Markets need your focus to propel highest profit edge!

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  • January 13, 2006
Tax funding won't solve gridlock; it's time for tolls

Lee and Collier counties want to privatize expansion of I-75. Waiting forfederal funds is futile.

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  • January 6, 2006
Matt Walsh: 6 resolutions to improve the economy

Cut building and zoning regulations, increase insurance and school competition and let the world know we have jobs.

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  • January 6, 2006
Thomas Sowell: Cheap Pay, Lousy Politicians

I don't make a million dollars a year but I think every member of Congress should be paid at least that much. It's not because those turkeys in Washington deserve it. It's because we deserve a lot better people than we have in Congress.

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  • December 16, 2005
Lasday: Every Firm Needs A 'Hit Squad'

In nearly every strata of Gulf Coast human achievement - the arts, medical, community banking, law, real estate – you can find high-energy, high profit, ego-centric, corporate "ALL STARS" that produce innovative results. Call them what you will: the Development Team, the Futurists, the Brain Trust, the Think Tank or perhaps the A-Team.

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  • December 5, 2005
Thomas Sowell: The Lure of the Free Lunch

I first became aware of the law of gravity as a child when I pedalled by tricycle off the porch and crashed into the yard. Gravity was of course operating all along, whether I was aware of it or not.

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  • November 26, 2005
Don't Compete with Rivals; Make Them Irrelevant

By: Lou Lasday

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  • November 4, 2005
Thomas Sowell: True Believers Won't Compromise

A reader recently sent me an e-mail about a woman he had met and fallen for. Apparently the attraction was mutual - until one fateful day the subject of the environment came up.She was absolutely opposed to any drilling for oil in Alaska, on grounds of what harm she said it would do to the environment.

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  • September 13, 2005
Group Therapy by Lou Lasday

It's tough to maintain customer intimacy, but more and more companies are doing it with customer advisory boards.

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  • September 9, 2005
Why Housing is So Costly by: Thomas Sowell

They say time is money, but a lot depends on whose time and whose money. For example, the San Mateo County Planning Commission in California has spent five years deciding what can and cannot be done with the site of an old racetrack no longer economically viable.

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  • August 12, 2005
Share of Customer by: Lou Lasday

Gaining market share is the old way of thinking and operating. The new paradigm says you should try to filla greater share of your customers' needs.

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