Major Mortgage in Grand Junction will host an online auction through 5 p.m. May 17 to raise money for a program that provides food to hungry school children. The auction will include two, four-day general admission tickets and a campsite for the upcoming Country Jam country music festival scheduled for June 20 to 23 in […]
Papa Murphy’s, a take n’ bake pizza chain whose 1,350 stores includes two locations in the Grand Valley, ranks first in two consumer surveys. Papa Murphy’s placed first among full- and limited-service food chains in the 2013 Consumer Restaurant Brand Metrics ranking by Technomic, a food industry consulting and research firm. In a two-year study […]
I recently started reading Roger Kimball’s exceptional new book, “The Fortunes of Permanence” and am apparently in rather good company. The inestimable Jay Nordlinger relates in National Review Online that he, too, is enthralled by Kimball’s latest offering. The book touches on many important topics concerning culture, education, society and our intellectual inheritance, but centers […]
American small businesses aren’t growing, hiring, borrowing or expanding as they should be. Their owners have almost no confidence Washington can stop runaway federal spending or balance the government’s budget. Worried and uncertain over what the future might hold, these usually optimistic entrepreneurs grow more cautious by the day. Their fears and uncertainty when it […]
Seriously, we’re $16 TRILLION in debt and running up an extra $1.5 TRILLION in debt every year and this is something we need, underwear that detects cigarette smoke? As Dave Barry, one of my favorite columnists of all time, would say, “I am not making this up.” According to CNS News, the National Institute of […]
Have you ever hated going to work because you dread the tasks that await on your desk? If you have employees, have you ever had hard-working staffers who, no matter how talented, just felt like they were square pegs in round holes? There are lots of smart, able people out there doing work that’s not […]
High employee turnover is expensive and frustrating. The cost of finding and training new employees to the point in which they actually make you money is staggering. On average, new employees don’t begin to make you money until their productivity reaches about three times wages. In many cases, that might not happen for nearly a […]
If you’re similar to the many business owners with which I work, you strive to keep your operation running as efficiently, smoothly and with as few interruptions to the flow of business as possible. As you do, there are a number of key variables to keep in mind as you endeavor to prevent or remove […]
A monthly index tracking labor trends has edged up as it continues to forecast moderate job growth in coming months. The Conference Board reported that its Employment Trends Index edged up nearly a tenth of a point to 111.68 in April. The index has advanced 3.8 percent from a year ago. Gad Levanon, an economist […]
U.S. payrolls grew in April and estimated gains for the previous two months were revised sharply upward as the latest statistics reflect increased hiring. The Labor Department reported that nonfarm payrolls rose 165,000 in April with gains spread across several industry sectors. Moreover, initial estimates for payroll gains in March and February were revised upward […]