By Craig Hall On February 15, 2012 at the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) presented its Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) as it relates to Oil Shale and Tar Sand Resources in the West to members of the Chamber and local […]
By Craig Hall On February 15, Senergy Builders held a ground-breaking ceremony celebration for the public and its subcontractors at its KC Farms Subdivision, located at 311⁄2 and E Roads. When completed, the development will feature eleven single family homes, all of which will boast the Energy Star […]
I remember the day so clearly. I had just returned from a buddy golf trip to Seattle, and Nikki confirmed what we suspected before I left. While we were driving to a friend’s house to catch the Monday night football game after picking me up at Walker Field, Nikki told to me we were going […]
If there’s one constant in business, it’s that it’s always changing. Nothing could be more true for small businesses, especially in this economy. And as we head into September, changes are indeed coming to the Business Times. The paper has actually grown while weathering the economic storm pretty well. We’ve grown in producing 36- to […]
Politicians are fond of picking numbers out of thin air to suit their particular agendas. They feel if one repeats the numbers often enough, like many in the mainstream media are all too happy to do, then Americans will come to accept them as an unquestioned truth. More importantly, these truths become things that only […]
One of my favorite sayings is from Ronald Reagan, who said the scariest 10 words in the English language are: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you.” Well, with great humility to those leaders and visionaries I keep on a Word document on my desktop, I ‘m going to add to my […]
I can still remember the day and the feeling. I was sitting in the board room of a local bank about three months after my brother died and I moved to town to take over the Business Times. In a meeting with my family, our business banker and the bank president, the president spoke these […]
It’s kind of enlightening when your friend Janet Rowland grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you into a “volunteer” position or two (or three or four!) at your kid’s charter school — in this case Caprock Academy. I have to admit, a good part of this is my fault. At one […]
There are times when I come to the office on deadline Tuesdays and think to myself, “I honestly have nothing I care to write about because, quite frankly, this is getting to all be a bit much.” Some of my friends tell me this is because I pay too much attention to what’s going on […]
My family and I just took our fourth trip to Denver in the last month. To be honest, it was the family twice and my wife alone for two of them. Nonetheless, we’ve driven up and over the mountains a total of eight times over that span. Since I’m not big on driving, and my […]