A Few Words

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

May 2023 I strongly encourage you to read “Anyone can be successful, Just ask Nathan Miller” on page 16 of this months journal.  Nathan built a $10,000,000 a year business with only 16 employees in Grants Pass, Oregon with only $140 and a lot of sweat equity and he believes…

April 2023 I witnessed my first bank run, ok it was my second, the first one was in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”.  Last month, I watched as twitter frenzied tech millionaires and billionaires transferred with a tap on their phones $50 BILLION dollars overnight from Silicon Valley Bank…