A Few Words
By 2030 there will be more people in the US > 65 than < 19
By Jim Teece I was sitting in an auditorium at Arizona State University last week, inside the magnificent Mirabella at ASU, a Pacific Retirement project in partnership with ASU, surrounded by hundreds of people and I was one of the youngest in the room. What I thought was going to…
Read MoreA few words from Jim – August 2024
This month we celebrate Mercy Flights 75th year on the “cover”. Mercy Flights, based in Medford, Oregon, is celebrating 75 years of service as the nation’s first not-for-profit air ambulance. Founded in 1949 by George Milligan, a pilot and federal employee, the organization was created to provide life-saving medical transport…
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Did you know that the 2nd Friday of March is Solar Appreciation Day? I didn’t either. I use solar energy every day to keep a couple of my towers alive, so I’m a big fan. I love innovation and innovators and have written several times over the years about Stracker…
Read MoreEnd of an Era and Start of a New One
I struggled with this moment for a while. When Greg Henderson started the Southern Oregon Business Journal back in January 2016, it was 12 pages, printed and mailed. Greg and I became partners until he retired in May 2020. I upgraded the website and made the SOBJ more than just…
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Happy New Year!
A Few Words from Jim January 2024 Happy New Year! 2024 is off to a great start. I had the opportunity to have an amazing lunch at the Twisted Cork in Grants Pass with Trever Yarrish and he shared with me his end of year ritual when I asked him…
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Loneliness
A Few Words from Jim December 2023 According to Psychology Today, Loneliness is the state of distress or discomfort that results when one perceives a gap between one’s desires for social connection and actual experiences of it. I recently attended a technology conference and one of the key themes was…
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A Few Words from Jim – November 2023
There is so much to be thankful for. I work every day in each of my companies with amazing humans that are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get the job done. I have wonderful clients that trust us and work with us to solve problems, create innovative…
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A Few Words from Jim – October 2023
This is the special Broadband Edition of the Southern Oregon Business Journal. I started producing this special edition for the Oregon Connections Conference a couple of years ago to provide stories about broadband in Oregon to all of you readers as well as the attendees of the conference. It’s been…
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A Few Words from Jim – September 2023
Here we go again. Kroger and Albertsons announced plans to merge and that they will divest 49 locations in Oregon. They have not announced which ones. We have an Albertsons and Safeway in Ashland. Surely one of them will be one on the chopping block…Again. A few years ago, Safeway…
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A few words from Jim – August 2023
When Greg Henderson started the Southern Oregon Business Journal he did so with the support of “sponsors”. These companies paid monthly to support Greg and the idea of delivering news about business in Southern Oregon. They got an ad out of it, but it was really something more than being…
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A Few Words from Jim – July 2023
This is always the last thing I write for each issue. Sometimes I think it should be the first. A guiding light. A beacon. But no, it’s always the last thing. A recap. A taillight. Or as I like to think of it, the afterburner. We gathered to celebrate the…
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A Few Words from Jim
June 2023 I almost called this issue “Grants Pass has got it going on.” Because last month I featured Nathan Miller on the cover and this month I’m featuring Trever Yarrish. Both are CEOs of cool tech companies and more in Grants Pass. When I visit Grants Pass, I can…
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