The Barack Obama administration has become a mess simultaneously convulsed by three separate scandals. Separate, yes, but each in their own way the result of a government grown too big to focus its priorities and one in which political calculation trumps all other concerns. Revelations the Internal Revenue Service inappropriately targeted conservative and Tea Party […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times A recent municipal election that drew sharp distinctions between candidates and positions also sparked a debate about the role of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce in that process. While the chamber long has taken positions on policies that affect business, its increasingly proactive efforts have drawn the indignation […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times Republican state lawmakers from the Grand Valley said they were challenged and frustrated by a legislative session controlled by Democrats. While some of the measures that were enacted could hurt businesses, other measures affecting the energy industry were defeated. State Sen. Steve King of Grand Junction called the latest session […]
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 […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times Efforts continue to use more of the resources produced in Colorado to fuel transportation, whether in the form of compressed natural gas, propane or electricity. “We have an incredible abundance of natural resources here in Colorado — natural gas, natural gas liquids, you name it. And yet we are importing […]
It’s an easy, and not entirely inaccurate, observation to make that an overly latitudinarian and morally relativistic society is at least partially to blame for the bomb attacks in Boston. It’s not entirely accurate, either. In the final analysis, it’s terrorists, and the strictures that motivate them, that are to blame for acts of terror. […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times A group of measures regulating energy development is making its way through the Colorado Legislature this session. At least six bills, most aimed at increasing regulation in a state that already imposes some of the strictest energy development regulations in the nation, are being considered at the State Capitol in […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times Proposed immigration reforms could pose significant effects on local business, including a measure requiring the use of an electronic employment verification system within five years. Diane Schwenke, president and chief executive officer of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce, said that overall she’s optimistic about federal immigration legislation, noting […]
Much has been made of late over the issue of homosexual marriage, its embers stoked by the Colorado Legislature’s affirmation of civil unions and more recently by the U.S. Supreme Court’s tentative wading into the challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act. Proponents of marriage redefinition have taxonomized the issue as a civil right — […]
Kelly Sloan, The Business Times Grand Junction voters overwhelmingly elected to allow a trucking company to proceed with development on its riverfront property, but narrowly defeated a proposed tax limit override that would have allowed the city to keep additional revenues to fund infrastructure projects. Referred Measure A on the ballot asked voters whether or […]