Entrepreneurs have a knack for not only recognizing and meeting needs in a marketplace, but also responding to changing conditions. Given proverbial lemons, they make lemonade. A Grand Junction couple offers an excellent example of this ability. Faced with a downturn in the energy sector their machine shop serves, Lindsey and Aaron Robinson decided to […]
The recent debate between the Republican contenders campaigning for election as president illustrates the disconnect that can occur between what concerns voters and what candidates to elected offices spend most of their time talking about. Prior to the GOP debate, Gallup released a list of questions Americans would ask the presidential hopefuls if they had […]
Several Grand Valley businesses are celebrating anniversaries, among them Colorado Document Security, Safari Ltd. and Pollux Clothing. It’s not the milestones themselves that are necessarily newsworthy, but what they represent: Enterprises that have survived what are typically challenging early years to evolve into sustainable operations. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, only half of […]
If the Mesa County economy were a paint-by-numbers portrait, some features would be bright and encouraging, but others still dark and discouraging. Count among the uplifting colors those associated with first-half numbers for sales and lodging tax collections and particularly real estate sales. Count among the ominous colors those associated with the latest numbers for […]
What a great line from the movie “The Princess Bride.” And what a great word for the comment to be about: inconceivable. As a still somewhat free man in a somewhat free country, I’m perplexed we’ve arrived at this point. The “constitutional” arguments we’ve experienced over the years seem inconceivable to me, as I’m sure […]
The Business Times frequently reports stories about various degree programs and the other efforts of Colorado Mesa University to prepare students for the workplace. The stories are important because CMU students constitute an important component of the local labor market. Moreover, what happens on the CMU campus in Grand Junction has far-reaching ramifications not only […]
Congratulations to Jen Zeuner and Anne Keller for their latest accomplishment: Their selection as Entrepreneurs of the Year in Mesa County. The two restaurateurs are coming up on the 10th anniversary of operating the Hot Tomato pizzeria in Fruita and managing what’s been remarkable growth for their venture over the past decade. What’s more, a […]
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was referring to Russia in his famous quotation from 1939. But if he were still alive, Churchill just as well could have been talking about the Colorado Legislature. It’s a riddle state lawmakers enact some measures to recruit businesses […]
here’s just something about business success stories that fire the imagination and inspire would-be entrepreneurs to launch ventures. There’s nothing better, in fact, than tales of how luck and pluck carry entrepreneurs and their businesses from rags to riches. They stories are so compelling because they offer hope others can similarly turn good ideas and […]
Hilltop Community Resources in Grand Junction has earned well-deserved recognition for its efforts to foster a culture of health and wellness. Hilltop was among only five employers nationwide to win the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award from the American Psychological Association. For an encore, Hilltop won the inaugural Governor’s Award for Worksite Wellness here in Colorado. […]