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The company is best known for a product that measures health markers through a simple breath test.

Robert Davis’s report focusses on a major miscalculation by national medical school authorities. From the late 1970s until the mid ’90s, experts in medical education urged medical schools to hold enrollments steady, forseeing a surplus of doctors (as if too many would somehow be perilous). With hindsight it’s hard to understand the reasoning behind their forecast. Now baby boomers are aging — becoming more doctor-needy — and boomer-cohort physicians are retiring by the tens of thousands, and there have not been enough new physicians trained to fill their shoes.

If you’re looking for a job, you want to be in a state that has an unemployment rate lower than the national average, which is 5 percent according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Inability to Find Top Executive Talent Is the Greatest Challenge

Conservation easements in Colorado are being used to protect valuable home sites and areas earmarked for oil and gas exploration and development, not the open spaces the easements were designed to preserve.

Beartooth Capital invests in ranch real estate to generate strong returns
for investors by restoring and protecting ecologically-important land. “I felt this could be a real engine for conservation.”

Our investment thesis as a firm, the reason Highway 12 exists, is we believe there is unprecedented opportunity in the Intermountain West for startup companies. Three of the five fastest growing states in the country are in our target market.

If the economy is headed for a serious downturn, or worse, how will this affect small business?

“We owe a huge thanks to every one of our employees whose collective efforts truly make CH2M HILL a great place to work,” said Ralph Peterson, CH2M HILL’s chairman and CEO.

The draw of Wyoming and other wild and scenic places remains strong for vacation travelers, but rising gas prices and a weakening economy may mean visitors spend less once they reach their destinations.