A monthly index tracking labor trends posted its largest drop in two years, a signal job growth could slow. The Conference Board reported that its Employment Trends Index (ETI) fell six-tenths of a percent to 100.5 in April, the largest monthly decline since April 2009. Still, the index remains up 6 percent from a year […]
For parents, graduation is like a welcome gasp of relief sucked through teeth clinched tight in terror. So far, so good. But now what? At a time when it feels as though the only certainty is uncertainty, parents understandably worry about what the future holds for their children. Will they fare well at college? Will […]
Despite continued growth in U.S. payrolls, the unemployment rate rose in April for the first time in five months. According to the latest Department of Labor estimates, nonfarm payrolls grew 244,000. Moreover, initial estimates for job gains in March and February were revised upward 46,000 to a total of 456,000. Nonetheless, the jobless rate edged […]
Mesa County reported the highest property foreclosure rate among metropolitan counties in Colorado during the first quarter of 2011. While foreclosure filings fell more than 30 percent during the quarter compared to the same span last year, foreclosure sales increased slightly. According to the latest statistics from the Colorado Division of Housing, Mesa County reported […]
Real estate activity in Mesa County remains mostly unchanged from a year ago, neither dropping significantly below 2010 levels nor yet exhibiting a substantial recovery. Annette Miller, senior vice president of Heritage Title Co. in Grand Junction and a long-term observer of the local real estate market, said this of the latest sales figures: “They’re […]
Rick Brainard leads an impromptu tour of the expansive maintenance facilities at West Star Aviation. As he walks briskly through cavernous company hangars at Grand Junction Regional Airport that resemble parking garages for jets, Brainard points out the various makes of airplanes and checks off the assortment of maintenance and renovation work under way. New […]
Mobile media continue to dominate the discussions in many retail electronics stores. A year after the Apple iPad made a splash with its debut, five different brands of the tablet gadgets are now available. And like most electronic inventions, they seem to offer increasingly better quality as the months go by. “Pictures are getting better […]
It’s less expensive than the traditional material used in solar panels. It’s more flexible. It’s less noticeable, too. That three-fold combination makes thin film photovoltaic technology an increasingly popular item in the solar energy business. “It tends to be less prominent,” says Lou Villaire, who works in the sales and design department of Atlasta Solar […]
When Rob Benjamin talks about being in the cloud, he’s not alluding to a foggy mindset. Quite the contrary: The cloud is a technological term for access to the universe of the Internet through virtual servers and can include access to information that’s not available to all Internet users. “We’ve been in the cloud, and […]
When national health care legislation was enacted last year, much was made about the importance of the electronic storage and sharing of medical records among medical professionals. While electronic storage was already common, remote access to patients’ medical histories was not as prevalent. As technology advances, doctors can access new medical information from a variety […]