Aren’t you tired of it? With democrats it’s all about “saving our democracy.” With republicans it’s all about passing the “SAVE America” act. Sadly, neither of these will save the one thing that needs saving in the United States, and that would be freedom. What they really come down to is one thing: power. Right […]
For years at the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce, we have been sounding the alarm about Colorado’s slipping business competitiveness. I have listened to employers explain that the cost and complexity of doing business in Colorado is becoming unsustainable. Too often, those concerns have been dismissed as political disagreement or resistance to change. They […]
Then again, I’m being redundant in that second part. As I type today, I find myself in the middle of two iconic battles – well, maybe three if I count my rambunctious feline known as Nico and his never-ending mission to get into places I don’t want or desire him to be in, which is […]
Oh, we’ll probably get into some secondary problems as well. You know me. If there’s one thing I’ve never understood since I moved here – and it may not have been a thing when I did in the year 2000, because I wasn’t paying as close attention – is the practice of resigning one’s party […]
I must admit for the first time in years, I actually watched a full soccer game. Or is it soccer match? I hear it depends on where one resides. And since I’m in the good ol’ USofA, it appears it was a game. And that would be the game between the United States and some […]
Last year about this time I wrote about something a friend told me I had to do. Normally, when someone tells me I must do something it is more than enough reason for me to simply not do it. But when a friend says something of importance, we are all best to take it under […]
And most of that “much” comes through a little device in my hand that I am guilty of inviting into my cranium before my eyes remove the blur to focus on safely getting out of bed. Isn’t that the case in your house? Back in the good old days, many would reach for a cigarette […]
Well, I’ll see clearer now in about an hour or so, because I’m sitting at my buddy Andy’s shop – Windshields Express – getting my windshield replaced as rocks tend to find me on my trips to Gypsum to pick up The Business Times. All part of my weekly routine in the ever-changing news biz […]
When it comes to emergencies, no one abuses emergency powers like our government. And it’s doubly worse when the government creates the emergency, and triply worse when it doubles down on those doubly worse emergencies it created. Think like the “double-secret” probation Dean Wormer at Faber College put on Delta House. I mean, they revoked […]
Ah yes, part deux of Travels with Craigy: The events after the flight back east. And I’ll get to those in a minute, but first let’s talk about why this column is more relaxed than my last. Because my doc said I need to put my feet up. Yes, who knew vacation could be so […]