Tax collections, an indicator of sales and economic performance, continue to increase in Grand Junction and Mesa County, according to the latest reports. Combined sales and use tax collections for the City of Grand Junction increased 4.4 percent in June. Mesa County reported a 5.6 percent gain. Lodging tax collections on hotel and motel stays […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser believes his office can play a role in helping businesses, promoting economic development and addressing problems. “I’m a big believer in what we can do in Colorado,” Weiser said during a wide-ranging discussion with local government officials and business leaders at the offices of the […]
Colorado continues to rank among the top 10 states for business in the latest results of an annual analysis that takes into account more than 60 measures of competitiveness. Colorado ranked ninth overall in the latest list of America’s Top States for Business complied for the CNBC cable television network. To determine the ranking, each […]
Colorado ranks 10th among the 50 states in the latest analysis of the best places to start and grow businesses. Colorado ranked sixth for its business environment, 18th for access to resources and 34th for business costs in an analysis conducted by WalletHub. The personal finance website used information from federal agencies, foundations and media […]
An information exchange designed to help those at risk and promote their well-being has been selected as a semifinalist in a national health innovation challenge. The Quality Health Network based in Grand Junction announced its Community Resource Network is among five semifinalists in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Social Determinants of Health Innovation Challenge. “We […]
Colorado will join a growing number of states participating in a program to help people with disabilities obtain employment, the state labor and employment department announced. The Employment First initiative promotes competitive, integrated employment as the first choice for people regardless of the levels of their disabilities. “Our Division of Vocational Rehabilitation will be a […]
American women experienced significantly lower levels of sexual harassment in the workplace from 2016 to 2018, but increasing levels of gender harassment, according to the results of new studies at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The results, published in the PLOS One journal, also found the effects of […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times The June jobless rate jumped again in Mesa County — a seasonal increase that reflects in part the high school and college graduates who’ve joined the labor force, but haven’t yet landed jobs. But even as the monthly unemployment rate increased, so did the overall labor force in topping 78,000 […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times Diane Schwenke and Robin Brown welcome the 27 jobs coming to the Grand Valley as part of a reorganization of the Bureau of Land Management. What’s even more important in terms of the long-term implications, Schwenke and Brown said, is what’s coming with them, and that’s the headquarters of the […]
Phil Castle, The Business Times While C.J. Rhyne follows the usual metrics in tracking how the Grand Valley economy performs, he pays more attention to what he hears from the business owners with which he talks. “I want to get it straight from them.” As director of business retention and expansion at the Grand Junction […]