Electronic data technology has helped companies store information that would take up hundreds of offices full of paper files. Computers sort the data to make it easy to archive and easy to access. Yes, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate business technology in 2011. Yet, electronic data storage also can present a dangerous problem […]
As technology advances, it’s inevitable that rooms that once stored paper files now house electronic equipment. Such is the case at St. Mary’s Hospital, which continues to upgrade its technological capabilities in the wake of opening a $270 million, 12-story patient tower in 2010. Officials at the Grand Junction hospital plan to open three cardiac […]
The Business Incubator Center in Grand Junction will host a free panel discussion about the outdoor recreation industry in the Grand Valley. The Business Over Breakfast event is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. May 11 at the center, 2591 Legacy Way. While no admission will be charged, reservations are requested. For reservations or more information, call […]
Tom Kenyon has been elected mayor of Grand Junction. Kenyon, the District A representative on the Grand Junction City Council, was elected by the council to serve a one-year term as mayor. Bill Pitts, who fills an at-large seat on the council, was elected mayor pro tem. The council selects a mayor and mayor pro […]
Alyssa Hampson and Tanner Lindt believe they have a good idea to help new students at Mesa State College. Hampson and Lindt have proposed a networking organization that connects juniors and seniors with new students. Upper classmen could help lower classmen with information about professors’ teaching styles, what classes to take and where to rent […]
Sue Tuffin enjoys nothing more than combining separate components into one whole. And that’s just what Tuffin did in helping to to establish the Mesa County Workforce Center and in the process bring a variety of programs offered by an assortment of agencies under one roof in Grand Junction. For those efforts and others, Tuffin […]
A Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce plan to recruit volunteers to work in classrooms garnered attention both for its efforts to try to improve education and, until its announcement, anonymity to some local community leaders. The Grand Junction Forum, a committee of chamber members, sought to recruit 500 volunteers to tutor elementary students for […]
Mesa County School District 51 has long ranked near the bottom in per pupil funding in Colorado, a victim of an allocation formula that gives more weight to districts with more or fewer students and also funnels more money to areas where teachers face a higher cost of living. Due to the lower level of […]
Jerry Greenfield believes opportunities abound for entrepreneurs to enjoy the same degree of success Greenfield and partner Ben Cohen enjoyed in turning a single ice cream shop into a $300 million ice cream empire. In addition to doing well, though, entrepreneurs can do good in emulating Ben & Jerry’s commitment to social and environmental causes, […]
Tyler Sickles and Crystal Wert each won four events to lead a dominating performance by Mesa State College students at the Colorado Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda state leadership conference in Denver. All 20 Mesa State students who competed at the conference qualified to attend nationals, set for June 23 to 26 in […]