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Business in Utah is booming. Unemployment is 3.7 percent and our population, presently at three million, is growing at a rate of 50,000 a year — a whole lot of them relocating here for the favorable business climate and family-oriented lifestyle. There is also our new nickname, Silicon Slopes, and with more than 4,300 technology companies, it’s easy to see why.

Microsoft office has received a needed facelift that will keep the software competitive against the likes of Dropbox and Google Drive. Office is making the jump to the cloud in a big way. As usual, the GUI has been tweaked, which you'll notice in this side-by-side comparison of the "ribbon" from the both the 2013 (above) and 2016 (below) versions of Mircrosoft Word ...

Did you know it's an election year? Not just any election year, mind you. Later this year, U.S. voters will head to the polls to decide whether it's time to Make America Great Again, or whether we're better off seeking to become Stronger Together. Of course, there are still some diehards out there hoping that we might have A Future to Believe In instead of getting Stronger Together, but ... the numbers just don't add up, fellas. At any rate, things have gotten to the stage at which it's temporarily most interesting to speculate about who will be the fallback option for each potential presidency.

We're almost halfway through 2016, and it's shaping up to be another great year. Everything is coming up Kyle! The family is doing well, the soccer team that I coach — 12-year-old girls — is undefeated again this year, and my main man, Steph Curry, is flying high. With back-to-back MVP awards and a soon-to-be second straight NBA championship, it’s no wonder that I love the guy.