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• Utah’s long-running job growth trend has now been reversed ---

  Five industry sectors in Utah now show declining numbers of jobs, according to the state’s most recent monthly employment report, which shows the long-running trend of job growth has now reversed itself.
  Employment fell by 0.2 percent, Mark Knold of the state’s department of workforce services reports, while unemployment for Utah sits at 3.5 percent, still […]

• Caputo’s good starting place for finding your pasta soul ---

  Editor’s Note: This is another in a series of articles at The Selective Echo featuring the various foodstuffs that comprise the exceptional offerings at Tony Caputo’s Market and Deli.
  It’s an amusing sight for Matt Caputo. Customers pop into Aquarius Fish Market next door to his family’s market and deli; purchase first-rate fresh scallops, clams, mussels […]

• The audacity of immigration reform: Hope delayed would be hope denied ---

  Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, The Selective Echo’s periodic correspondent from Mexico, offers this commentary on the prospects for immigration reform in a forthcoming Obama Administration.
  “Like millions of Americans, the immigrant story is also my story.”–Senator Barack Obama in a Senate floor statement on April 3, 2006
  “The time to fix our broken immigration system is now.”–Senator […]

• How Chad Midgley’s gardens grow in November ---

  Utah farmer Chad Midgley, a fixture at the Salt Lake City downtown farmers’ market during the summer and a regular each Saturday during the off season in front of the downtown Oasis Cafe, shares several impressive photographs of his produce gardens in mid November. There are no dreary browns in Midgley’s agricultural paradigm.
  Basil grows in […]

• Local businesses can maximize strategic opportunities for economic sustainability in downturn ---

  In some respects, local businesses can reap significant strategic opportunities from the recent economic downturn. Most healthy local businesses already do a good job at bottom-line marketing which emphasizes tight controls on operating expenses and maximizes gross profit margins. Most importantly, local businesses are solidly positioned at these times to continue offering exceptional customer service […]