Utah Gossip

Commuting on I-15 today? Well then you are in for a visually pleasing treat! I-15 is littered with billboards…from Omniture to the Humane Society (Make animal torture a felony!) to Xango to UFirst to Dirty Joe’s Adult Novelty Store (by the the Provo Center Street exit…in case you were wondering), driving is never […]

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It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Utah’s very own Pudding On The Rice is modeled (or copied, depending on who you ask) after New York City’s famed Rice to Riches. From the furniture to the décor to even the serving bowls, the rice pudding eatery is eerily similar to its predecessor […]

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are coming to Utah. The cosmetic company, Sephora, is making Salt Lake City one of their homes for a distribution center. It was either here or Reno, and they chose Salt Lake City. Because of this new distribution center, the Salt Lake area will have an additional 500 jobs–at least. So, if you are looking […]

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Utah is in the top 15 states that have the best employment rate. Actually, we are fifth. The federal unemployment rate is currently 5%. Utah has an unemployment rate of 3.2%. Not too shabby. 19.7% of Utahns are employed in the trade, transportation, and utilities industries. So, if you don’t have a job…look harder. If […]

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Try waterboarding and other interrogation tactics.
A supervisor at Prosper, Inc. (a motivational coaching business located in Provo) is accused of waterboarding an employee as part of a demonstration. The suit (filed by the alleged employee/victim) also alleges that management allowed supervisors to “draw mustaches on employees’ faces, take away their chairs and beat on […]

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The Salt Lake City based EnergySolutions corporation (a “full-service nuclear fuel cycle company”) will be importing nearly 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy; 1,600 tons of that is slated to be buried at an EnergySolutions low-level radioactive waste disposal site in Tooele County (Skull Valley). Back in 2005, the federal government approved the […]

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Working in the internet industry, I know a fair share of different web design companies and internet marketing firms throughout the state. Yet I am always amazed at the number of Utah SEO companies there are. Still a relatively new (and fickle) industry, I find it interesting that Utah seems to be such a […]

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