Brian Gongol

Sales declines in surrounding communities have supposedly stabilized, according to new research from ISU. The stores are bad for in-town direct competition, but specialty stores nearby actually appear to do a little better, since the Walmart acts like a magnet for shoppers from nearby.

Nobody has hate in their heart. They have it in their heads. And then they choose not to think hard enough to overcome that hate.

A $2 billion loss isn't going to sink the company. But it's getting to be almost impossible to think that investment bankers (as a class) have really cleaned up their act.

A redesign for the really awful I-80/I-380 interchange is up for a vote later this month. But it's still going to be long before anything actually happens.


Managing the managers is the chief job of company boards. But too many directors have been too complacent when it comes to acting in the shareholders' interest.


That's going to hurt prices
