Vol. 21 No. 8, August 2005
Index
- UNOCAL and CNOOC.
- ACS signs wireless with State.
- Alaska Football Camp teaches state's players.
- Everts Air services Southeast.
- GCI announces repurchase of all Series B preferred shares.
- Investment Group purchases Era Aviation.
- Northland buys back barge freight service.
- TSA imposes trucker fingerprinting.
- Slow going: the governor is still looking at three options to get North Slope gas to market.
- Insurance for small businesses: companies in Alaska are lagging behind when it comes to providing health care benefits--which isn't surprising for a state facing health care costs estimated at almost 40 percent higher than other parts of the country.
- 2005 August events calendar.
- State fair offers last blast of summer: this year the fair runs from Aug. 25 through Sept. 5, celebrating the final days of summer.
- Alaska's top women-owned business: an annual directory of women who own businesses and provide jobs to their communities.
- Women in construction: women are making headway in the construction industry.
- Northern Dame Construction: Doris Coy started her business because of a bad boss, and now grosses more than $1 million a year.
- Superior Machine & Welding Inc.: Jan Tina Lunsford didn't want to own her own business. But she loved a challenge.
- Alaska businesswoman tranforms wilderness travel: Alpaca Raft Inc. is growing due to woman's endurance.
- Associated builders and contractors push agenda: from gathering recruits to opposing Project Labor Agreements for the gas line, ABC speaks out.
- 2005 excellent year for military construction, 2006 even better: Army Corps of Engineers' spending recycles taxpayer dollars back into the economy.
- Alaska Airlines.
- Alaska Growth Capital.
- Alaska Travel Industry Association.
- AT&T Alascom.
- Tactix.
- UAA.
- ADF&G.
- Alaska Airlines.
- Alaska Commercial Banking Group.
- Alaska Press Women.
- CH2M Hill.
- Credit Union 1.
- DAT/EM Systems International.
- RIM Architects.
- Tryck Nyman Hayes Inc.
- Usibelli revived: things are looking up for this interior coal mine.
- Peninsula Airways marks 50 years of superior service with an emphasis on safety: PenAir celebrates the past, but looks forward to the future as "The Spirit of Alaska.".
- Preventative health care for businesses: just a few simple changes in company policy will result in healthier employees and healthier companies.
- The basics of video conferencing: reaching out from city to city, state to state, country to country: budget cuts have slashed many firms' travel budgets and video conferencing provides for an ideal solution to addressing the need for face-to-face meetings. It can be thought of as the next best thing to actually being there in person.
- New forest products from Southeast Alaska: Prince of Wales Island hotbed for small sawmill operators bent on value-added commodities.
- Making your way in Washington, D.C.: ten ways to be your own Capitol Hill lobbyist.
- Selling your company: seven common pitfalls that can produce failure: business owners should be able to sell their company at an aggressive premium price with only limited, if any, exposure to post-closing issues.
- A new business challenge: can you run a business or work a job and care for aging parents effectively at the same time?
- Air passenger traffic for both Anchorage and fairbanks airports: Alaska Trends, and outline of significant statewide statistics, is provided by the University of Alaska Center for Economic Development and sponsored by American Fast Freight.
- Alaska Trends for August 2005.