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. […]
What’s more difficult? Filing income tax returns or working hard to earn money to pay those taxes. The good news is another tax filing deadline has come and gone. With the exception of those requesting extensions, the tedious chore of making all those calculations and completing all those forms is mercifully over for another year. […]
Most people of a certain age can recall the summer jobs of their youth. Washing dishes in a restaurant. Waiting on customers in a retail shop. Cleaning up on a construction site. It wasn’t so much the specific skills people learned that were necessarily valuable, but the more general lessons that were so important. Showing […]
The new year brings more good economic news in the Grand Valley in the form of increasing sales tax collections and real estate activity. The City of Grand Junction and Mesa County both reported year-over-year gains in January sales tax collections based on December sales. The latest numbers are doubly important not only in quantifying […]
The Business Incubator Center in Grand Junction is deservedly famous for the resources offered there to entrepreneurs: low-cost space, counseling and even financing. Add to that entrepreneurial cornucopia the GJ Makerspace, a place where entrepreneurs, engineers and other inventive people can develop and test their ideas and, eventually, turn them into new businesses. The GJ […]
Vaccinations have made headlines. Is it because scientists have discovered a new one that will protect against yet another pernicious and deadly disease? No, it’s because Chris Christie and Rand Paul, however mildly, raised the specter of the anti-vaccine conspiracy theory again. To be fair, most of the question, especially in regards to Christie, the […]