Crystal Books and Gifts in Grand Junction will host a book-signing event with local author and speaker Jack Schlatter. The event is set for 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 15 at the store, located at 439 Main St. Schlatter will sign copies of his book “Gifts by the Side of the Road.” For more information, […]
The Mesa County Health Department offers information and free assistance to businesses to comply with a new state law requiring them to accommodate employees who are nursing mothers. The law requires businesses to offer time and private space for mothers to express breast milk at work. The law also prohibits discrimination against women expressing breast […]
Canyon Creek Plastic Surgery in Fruita will host a benefit fashion show to raise money for a program assisting cancer survivors. “I’m honored and excited to be part of the Survive Fashion Show,” said Dr. Rebecca Glasser, a plastic surgeon who runs Canyon Creek Plastic Surgery. “This event speaks directly to what I care about […]
The Express Employment Professionals staffing service in Grand Junction has scheduled a day-long seminar addressing human resource management issues. The event will feature Jack Smalley, director of HR learning and development for Express Employment Professionals. “This will be Jack’s third trip to Grand Junction, and each year we receive excellent feedback on the real world […]
Various market players expected second quarter real growth in gross domestic product in the United States to come in at less than 1 percent. But growth wound up registering 1.7 percent. So, for those playing the expectations game, second-quarter growth in the broad measure of goods and services produced in the country turned out to […]
Small business owners are rightly proud of their reputation as job creators. But their ability to create jobs is considerably complicated by the federal tax code burden they face. Today’s federal tax code is so complex and unfair that fully 91 percent of business owners surveyed recently by the National Federation of Independent Business said […]
A funny thing happening on the left side of the House. While political eyes focus on internecine tensions among the right, a similar thing seems to be occurring on the left, although it’s a far less fashionable topic upon which to comment. Polemicist and political philosopher Matt Damon’s public “breakup” with President Barack Obama offers […]
And so it goes in Happy Valley once again. Up next is another citizen-based effort to order the rest of us to change to suit someone else’s idea of what would be best for the masses. This time it’s renaming North Avenue to University Boulevard. As expected, the folks initiating the idea offer plenty of […]
The “conversation” has little to do with the amount of money you’ve been told you must accumulate before you can quit work. The conversation should focus on what you want your retirement to look like when that time comes. Many of us fail to ever have the conversation until “that time” is nearly upon us. […]
Take a long, hard look at your business. Do you like what you see? While this is often a difficult task for business owners, it can be an important one. Time presents the first obstacle to a critical self-examination. How many owners take time out of their businesses to work on their businesses? It’s hard […]