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Articles by Don Hegland

The Power of Advertising

Don Hegland
September 28, 2009
From hobby to $200 million in sales, one company prospers by advertising.

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Cash for Clunkers Is a Clinker

Don Hegland
August 20, 2009
"Cash for Clunkers" uses our tax dollars to pay consumers to do something most would have done anyway.
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Don't Fall for This Card Trick

Don Hegland
August 18, 2009
All the media commotion about clunkers and health care reform has diverted attention from the deceptively named Employee Free Choice Act, but don’t think for a nanosecond that big labor has given up on it.
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Editorial: Whose Back Yard?

Don Hegland
June 29, 2009
In the case of obsolete computers, TV sets, cell phones and myriad other electronic products discarded for recycling and reclamation, the challenge of how to safely dispose of them has become a major NIMBY issue.
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Editorial: Do As I Say...

Don Hegland
May 20, 2009
The results are in from the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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Editorial: Planting the Seed Corn

Don Hegland
April 21, 2009
Industrial research and development programs are the seed corn of product innovation. Unfortunately, one of the first cost-cutting measures some companies take when faced with the challenge of a recessionary economy is slashing their R&D programs.
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Editorial: Doublespeak

Don Hegland
March 20, 2009
In the face of union membership that continues to decline, labor leaders are desperate to get EFCA passed so that union organizers can see which individual workers are voting against union representation.
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Editorial: Think Opportunity

Don Hegland
February 18, 2009
Even though the economy today looks more like the green of gangrene than the green of profit, a brief look at history reveals that a recession-even a depression-is by no means a bad time to launch companies and products.
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Editorial: Looking Ahead

Don Hegland
January 26, 2009
Forward-thinking companies need to plan now for where they want to be when the current recession ends. Waiting until they see the bottom will leave them way behind.
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Editorial: Failing Our Future

Don Hegland
December 22, 2008
The good news is that American fourth and eighth grade students improved their math and science scores in 2007. The bad news is that they continue to lag behind their peers from top-performing Asian countries.
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