Yesterday began my long journey from the most isolated mid-size city in America (Boise, ID) to our nation’s capitol. This is my first time on the Potomac.
Traveling from Boise to D.C. means first stopping in SLC, then in to Chicago to change planes to get to D.C. Kudos to Southwest Airlines, with whom LGM has […]

In my new line of research on Idaho’s wine country I discuss the development of wine regions in Caldwell and Eagle, and the problems and opportunities associated with wine tourism in both places. Wine is becoming a big deal in Idaho, in case you missed it.
Anyway, last Saturday the 3 Horse Ranch Vineyards in Eagle […]

Dave I hope you don’t mind the props, but this is a story we have to tell.
So our inimitable business partner - attorney, and chef, Dave Haley - has just been hired as the Executive Chef at what will be one of the largest events centers in Idaho. After a legal career spanning over 20 […]

So here we are in the grips of an economic downturn, and American business has come up with yet another excuse: the NCAA tournament is zapping productivity to the loss of $1.2 billion. Can we get any stupider?
Boise’s channel 2 news hasn’t quite grasped the concept of giving away their content, so I can’t […]

Wow have we been busy. Been working madly on a demo of the Open Journal System so we can actually have a product to sell. Demo looks pretty good!
We’ve also got a couple of grants to work on to support these projects . . .
And we’ve got Spring Break coming up, Uncle Dave in […]

So what does LGM do? Well, that’s a good question. Here’s a small snapshot of the last few days.
First, our good friends over at Indian Creek Winery invited us over for a barrel tasting of a few of their upcoming releases. I am trying to recollect my mental tasting notes . . .
If I […]

Granted, most people don’t follow the intracacies of what is going on with the academic publishing market, but this thing called the Internets really seems to be gaining traction among academics. And why wouldn’t it? I mean the Wurl Wide Web itself was invented so that scholars could more easily share their scholarship online. They […]

Man I swear you can’t get on the local websites - either the Statesman or the Idaho Business Review without hearing some realtor or developer tell us - “Ah heck, housing is coming back. Don’t worry about it. All these rate cuts, people will be snapping up the cheap money to buy everything in sight.”
Uh […]

So . . . if you saw the Day After Tomorrow it is clear what is happening out there - I mean all the snow in Idaho, Israel, etc. Yeah, we’ve been buried in it, even here in the big City. Never the less, Barak Obama managed to get here to campaign. And though half […]

So in a previous post, I wondered why B of A, who lost billions in the mortgage market, would want to buy CountryWide, who lost billions in the mortgage market.
Today, we have Microsoft, who never has understood “the Internets,” proposing to buy Yahoo!, who consistently gets its collective a** handed back to it, by Google.
So […]