Tom Kenyon has been elected mayor of Grand Junction. Kenyon, the District A representative on the Grand Junction City Council, was elected by the council to serve a one-year term as mayor. Bill Pitts, who fills an at-large seat on the council, was elected mayor pro tem. The council selects a mayor and mayor pro […]
Alyssa Hampson and Tanner Lindt believe they have a good idea to help new students at Mesa State College. Hampson and Lindt have proposed a networking organization that connects juniors and seniors with new students. Upper classmen could help lower classmen with information about professors’ teaching styles, what classes to take and where to rent […]
Sue Tuffin enjoys nothing more than combining separate components into one whole. And that’s just what Tuffin did in helping to to establish the Mesa County Workforce Center and in the process bring a variety of programs offered by an assortment of agencies under one roof in Grand Junction. For those efforts and others, Tuffin […]
A Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce plan to recruit volunteers to work in classrooms garnered attention both for its efforts to try to improve education and, until its announcement, anonymity to some local community leaders. The Grand Junction Forum, a committee of chamber members, sought to recruit 500 volunteers to tutor elementary students for […]
Mesa County School District 51 has long ranked near the bottom in per pupil funding in Colorado, a victim of an allocation formula that gives more weight to districts with more or fewer students and also funnels more money to areas where teachers face a higher cost of living. Due to the lower level of […]
Jerry Greenfield believes opportunities abound for entrepreneurs to enjoy the same degree of success Greenfield and partner Ben Cohen enjoyed in turning a single ice cream shop into a $300 million ice cream empire. In addition to doing well, though, entrepreneurs can do good in emulating Ben & Jerry’s commitment to social and environmental causes, […]
A monthly measure of business conditions in Colorado has declined on mixed reports of activity, but still forecasts growth in coming months. The Business Conditions Index fell nearly six points in April, but at 53.8 continues to signal an expanding economy. “Durable goods producers continue to report expanding business activity, especially that linked to international […]
When it comes to projections for energy development over the next quarter of a century, oil shale remains about where it did a quarter century ago. In 1986, when the Grand Valley reeled from the effects of an oil shale bust, oil shale held promise as an alternative to conventional oil and coal. But market […]
Bill Beausay literally carries workplace complaints on his sleeve … not to mention his back. That’s because Beausay encourages participants in his workshops and seminars to not only voice their frustrations with work, but also write them down — on his clean white dress shirts. As Beausay paces before his audiences, the words appear, handwritten […]
After nine years as leader of an economic development organization in Mesa County, Ann Driggers has decided it’s time for a change for herself and the group. Driggers plans to step down as president and chief executive officer of the Grand Junction Economic Partnership and has submitted a 90-day notice to the GJEP board of […]