For those of you who know me well, this might sound like a very odd thing to say given the upheaval in all things personal. But with every cloud comes a silver lining. When one door closes, another one opens. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Yeah, I know, whatever. You get the picture. But […]
I’ll be the first to admit I have absolutely no idea what the FBI was doing and has been doing out at Grand Junction Regional Airport. I only can attest to the fact the FBI was at the airport on Nov. 6, because I was delivering papers that particular day. (Yes, under the job title […]
I wonder how many folks knew Nov. 19 marked the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address? Since Lincoln is my all-time favorite president, I celebrate his greatest speech every year at this time. The Gettysburg Address offers the premier example of the dreams and beliefs our founding fathers had in terms of their abhorrence […]
Better get used to hearing one form or another of those two phrases when it comes to your health insurance plan. The preliminary reports on the Obamacare rollout show a severe lack of affordability, coverage and common sense. That is, unless you believe the constant spin coming out of the White House. While many folks […]
In our local school board election, there’s actually an ad spot that claims some of the folks running for the board would be beholden to Wall Street “special interests.” Apparently this ad asks all of us to forget the fact that three of the candidates featured in the ads claim they have no political agendas […]
I always laugh (OK, cry) every time the government is forced to lay off or cut “nonessential” personnel or programs. I guess being a business owner has taught me that paying for something “nonessential” is just plain dumb. Or in another word: worthless. To a business, wasting hard-earned money on something “nonessential” is the very […]
I might not be the smartest businessman on the planet, but I do know one thing. If I keep writing checks my account can’t fund (or my backside can’t keep) my bank will do the simplest of things: It will shut me down. And if I keep writing checks after things are shut down, there’s […]
The anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil has me thinking about freedom. Like you, I can recall exactly where I was on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 and I first saw the images on my television. I had just returned home the night before from a trip to Seattle visiting and […]
In response to some of my recent Facebook posts, and well, yes, some of my columns, people have told me I tend to be negative in what I have to say. I guess it’s hard to argue that point when one looks at the headlines in the news internationally, nationally and even locally. Most of […]
And so it goes in Happy Valley once again. Up next is another citizen-based effort to order the rest of us to change to suit someone else’s idea of what would be best for the masses. This time it’s renaming North Avenue to University Boulevard. As expected, the folks initiating the idea offer plenty of […]