After all, it got JJ a job. And JJ’s first “interview” as Mesa County Commissioner proves it. For the life of me, I still can’t figure out why JJ Fletcher ran for Mesa County Commissioner. After all, when I asked JJ serious questions (with obvious follow-ups) that he was ill-prepared for in a Facebook thread, […]
We know we’ve been tooting our own horn for the past few months on this topic, but we can’t help it if our own anticipation has gotten the better of us. And for the staff, our readers and advertisers, the crescendo has finally reached its conclusion. As of the printing of this edition on Jan. […]
Yeah, I know it’s in the headline, but you can’t leave out what you’re leaving out unless you mention it, and then leave it out. Which I only will in the headline. As you may imagine if you’ve read me at least a couple of times, this will be the most difficult column I write […]
And I’ve got the perfect one for our fair city from Thomas Sowell, and it goes like this: “Some people seem to think that the answer to all of life’s imperfections is to create a government agency to correct them.” And in Grand Junction we don’t just create a government agency, we elect them to […]
Just so you aren’t confused, I am not talking about any meetings on the corner of 12th and North. No, I’m talking about downtown on Fifth and Rood. And while I am sure the faculty meet regularly at our university, those meetings don’t do nearly the damage the way our city council infects its personal […]
Let’s just be honest, if President Trump wins, the Democrats will be apoplectic, and we’ll probably have a repeat of the 2016 election aftermath, but to a greater degree. After all, how else can people react to the election of Satan’s top minion and all the Democrats are claiming he’ll do once in office. Demonstrations […]
Yes and no. But I will say, my new role of being an editor takes up a lot of my time. No, I didn’t say it wastes my time. That’s mainly because what I edit is interesting to me. Yes, your stories interest me, and I want to tell them in the best way possible […]
I don’t know any other way to put it or express how lucky I am to be the beneficiary of it. Yes, I’ve heard luck is the result of hard work. And I’d be hard-pressed to argue with myself I haven’t put in the work in the success of your favorite newspaper. I certainly have. […]
As you might have read on this website, one random number 30 relates to the years in business the Business Times is celebrating. But this column isn’t about that. No, this column is about the numbers Phil Castle made clear he didn’t want to publish a story about. For the first time in 24 years […]
Many will read this and think, “Sounds like Craig needs to cunningly wax philosophic to extricate himself from a deplorable situation.” And while I used a similar line in referring to Barabas (oh, those old playwrights and their symbolism) in Marlowe’s, “The Jew of Malta” for a term paper more than 40 years ago, this […]