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Business ReportMorning Star
JANUARY 2009
Is Delaware on the path to energy
independence?
+ How Maryland slots could affect
Delaware+Valentines Day Gift Guide
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[contents] 01/09
36How would
Maryland slots affect Delawares economy?
08 Chamber NewsUpdates on events and local
grand openings
14 marKeTINGJAYLA BOIRE explains how a blog
can be used as a marketing tool
16 GrowING bUsINess
18 INVesTINGJOHN E. GIROUARD discusses the
end of the New Economy
20 hIDDeN TreasUreJAMES DIEHL uncovers Delaware
Renewable Energy
22 bUILDING GreeN Building an environmentally
responsible home by CAROL KINSLEY
25 GreeN ForCe
28 GUesT CoLUmNBOB LIGHT of Flexera is hopeful
about the future of renewable
energy
29 GIFT GUIDeGift ideas for Valentines Day
30 heaLTh rePorT
40 FINaNCIaLJOY SLABAUGH on creating your
own personal bail out plan
41 reaL esTaTeRUTH BRIGGS KING discusses how
the housing market can help
boost our economy
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Business Report | January 2009
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PUBLISHERBryant Richardson
AdmInIStRAtIonCarol Richardson
EdItoRIAL dIRECtoRdaniel Richardson
ARt dIRECtoRCassie Richardson
ComPoSItIonElaine Schneider
tina ReaserRita Brex
SALESLaura Rogersdoris ShentonEmily Rantz
George BeauchampPat murphyRick Cullen
Brandon miller
CIRCULAtIonKaren Cherrix
ContACt morning Star Publications
302-629-9788P.o. Box 1000
Seaford, dE [email protected]@mspublications.com
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from the editor
MORE ABOUT MORNING STARS MOVE
Daniel Richardson
T here has been a lot happen-ing here at Morning Star Publications over the last month. We have just completed the move to new offices and could not be happier with our surround-ings.
The suite we purchased in the Home Team Realty building had three existing offices and one wide open space. An open floor plan may be a desirable feature in a residential house, but after 12 years in an open office with no privacy, no rooms to escape to the only closing door being the bathroom and a staff working on a weekly deadline, we knew we needed offices that were sepa-rated by walls in order to maintain our sanity.
R. L. Ewing Company, owned by Rick Ewing of Seaford, won the bid for construction and I can say without hesitation that we are glad he did. Ricks crew did a fantastic job and had our offices finished and inspected in less than a month.
Just in time for us to take ad-vantage of Thanksgiving weekend to move the entire operation. Had construction lasted one more day, we would have had to pay another months rent.
Another company that has been a big help to us during our move is Telepathy Networks. Jason Silvis, president of the company, worked with me to ensure that transport-ing our entire network to the new offices would go as smoothly as possible. Being an information and media provider, our business could not operate if our network went down. Jason understood how important it was for our network to function the day we opened for business at the new location.
Even though we originally contracted with Telepathy just to provide our new VOIP phone service, they definitely went above and beyond for our business.
I do have a lot to say regarding our recent move, but I want to be sure not to ignore the significance of this issue of the Business Re-port. I feel very strongly that the pursuit of energy independence is vital to the Delaware economy, not to mention the positive impact on our environment.
I hope the editorial content in this edition will help demonstrate that not only can making environ-mental decisions and purchases for our businesses create jobs, they can also cut our energy bills and improve our bottom line.
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delaware is ranked fourth among the list of states that are leading an econom-ic transformation in adapting to an in-creasingly global, entrepreneurial, digital, and knowledge- and innovation-based new economy, according to the 2008 State new economy index, released by the ewing Marion Kauffman founda-tion and the information technology and innovation foundation at an event in Washington, d.C. to mark entrepreneur-shipWeek uSa.
delaware has held respectable spots on the State index issued in 1999, 2002 and 2007, making steady climbs with each updated and expanded index. ranked ninth in both 1999 and 2002, then seventh in 2007, the state rose again in the new rankings, placing fourth overall.
the index, sponsored by the ewing Marion Kauffman foundation, ranks the 50 states according to how their econo-mies are structured and their ability to operate effectively in order to compete nationally and globally.
It divides 29 indicators into five
categories that best capture the new economy: knowledge jobs, globalization, economic dynamism, transformation to a digital economy and technological in-novation capacity.
the report also lays out an innova-tion-based policy agenda designed to help states succeed economically in turbulent times.
according to the index, delaware tops the ranking because of its high concen-tration of managers, professionals and college-educated residents working in knowledge jobs.
delawares companies are more geared toward global m
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