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Entrepreneurs who thoroughly understand potential buyers have a terrific opportunity to grow their businesses by building and selling superior products to meet customers' needs.

On Friday, 20 community leaders met for the first time to discuss the greater Ogden-area economy. The agenda was to consider the current business environment, the selection of significant goals to be achieved over the next five years and projects in progress.

For young people wanting to learn a skill to improve their chances for a successful and meaningful career, looking into Job Corps may be just the answer.

We were in Las Vegas last month, having dinner at a funky little Chinese restaurant over near the university, when my wife needed to step outside to take a phone call.

Q: How many journalists does it take to write about House Bill 477?

A: All of 'em.

You gotta believe me when I say that I had no intention of becoming yet another angry newspaperman weighing in on the subject of open government. I swear it.

After all, it's not like I could add anything meaningful to the discussion anyway (not that a little thing like that has ever stopped me). Especially since everybody and their dog has already offered their two cents' worth on this hot-button issue.

No, seriously.

You can have your Cherry Days, your Peach Days, your Heritage Days -- even your venerated Pioneer Days.

For my money, I'll take the community festival that's wrapping up this weekend in the tiny town of Nederland, Colo. (population 1,394).

"Frozen Dead Guy Days."

Clearly, I was born half a century too early.

A week or so ago, a co-worker was complaining about her 2007 Jeep Liberty. She needed to check the automatic transmission fluid level in the vehicle, but was having a difficult time locating the dipstick for that particular diagnostic procedure. She'd even had a friend of hers, who has worked on automobiles most of his life, take a look, but he couldn't find the dipstick, either.