Phil Castle, The Business Times: Doug Caskey sees another sign of growth for the Colorado wine industry in the latest production numbers. Wineries reported passing the million-liter milestone in total volume for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. “It’s a pretty positive trend,” said Caskey, executive director of the Colorado Wine Industry Development Board. The board promotes and […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times: In answering questions at a forum about a range of issues, three candidates for the Mesa County School District 51 Board of Education highlighted some of their differences. One of the biggest differences concerns a measure that will appear on the same November election ballot as the candidates that requests an […]
A monthly measure of future economic activity in the United States continues to increase, but slowing growth in the index raises concerns about recovery. The Conference Board reported its Leading Economic Index (LEI) rose three-tenths of a percent to 116.2. While the index has advanced four consecutive months, growth over the past six months was […]
Agricultural exports from Colorado remain well ahead of last year with increases in the sale of beef, dairy products and grain. The value of agricultural exports through the first seven months of 2011 totalled $718 million, up 20 percent over the same span last year, according to figures reported by the Colorado Department of Agriculture. […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times: Don’t call this Grand Junction repair facility a two-bit operation. In August, in fact, Halliburton Drill Bits and Services refurbished a record 544 drill bits and sent them to rigs boring oil and natural gas wells throughout the region. The facility is in business to keep its customers in business. And […]
The latest results of a monthly report confirm property foreclosure activity is slowing in Mesa County. Nonetheless, Mesa County continues to experience the highest foreclosure rate among 12 metropolitan counties in Colorado. According to the statistics from the Colorado Division of Housing, Mesa County reported 86 foreclosure filings and 99 foreclosure sales in August. Compared […]
Listening to Barack Obama’s recent speech on the economy in a policy vacuum, you could get the idea the president is pretty reasonable on the issue of regulation. As is the case so often in the political world, rhetoric doesn’t match reality. Obama said, “I agree that there are some rules and regulations that do […]
Craig Hall, The Business Times: “In my experience, most people look at two things when purchasing an individual health care policy,” says Bill Brown, an agent selling who has been health policies since the early 1970’s, “And that is to concern themselves with the parts of the policy they will use the most; prescriptions and […]
Craig Hall, The Business Times: Many businesses believe their insurance needs are covered with basic workers’ comp and property and casualty insurance, and that cannot be farther from the truth as it relates to the current economy and our ever-evolving technology based business environment. “The fact is, most business owners have little to no idea just […]
Craig Hall, The Business Times: “My agency is focused on people that own businesses,” say LaVonne Gorsuch, a State Farm agent in Grand Junction, “And because we have a relationship with the business owner that goes beyond writing insurance, we can more accurately understand just what it is they are looking to protect and plan […]