Martial arts business plans open house

A Grand Junction martial arts business has scheduled an open house to offer information about instruction for children and adults. Martial Arts Research Systems has scheduled the free event for Sept. 17 at its facility at 560 S. Westgate Drive. The open house is set to start at 9 a.m. with a course for children […]

Class to cover the financial steps to home ownership

Housing Resources and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage will present a free homeownership class in Grand Junction. The two-hour class is set for 5:30 p.m. Sept. 22 at the Garden Village Community Building, 2601 Belford Ave, and open to the public. The class will teach participants about a number of financial steps toward home ownership, including […]

President fumbles policy on jobs and the economy

The NFL season kicked off right after President Barack Obama’s jobs speech came to a close. As a free-market, supply side economist, I’m no fan of Obama’s policy agenda. As a Minnesota Vikings fan, I’m not too crazy about the New Orleans Saints, who beat the Vikings in the NFC championship game in 2010 and […]

Main Street still missing from lackluster jobs plan

American small business owners didn’t have high hopes that President Barack Obama would remove the obstacles preventing them from creating jobs, so they weren’t terribly surprised when he rolled out his lackluster American Jobs Act before a joint session of Congress. The nation’s job creators learned long ago the president’s warm words for Main Street […]