Originally a celebration to honor those of you who truly built your own businesses, National Small Business Week is often hijacked by politicians who care little about what you do. You’ll hear many flattering phrases like “champions of free enterprise” and “backbone of the economy.” Don’t be fooled. Not every elected official who pats you […]
Got a struggling business? Perhaps you have a startup idea that’s proven it can’t work in the free marketplace. Maybe you don’t like the landscape along the street on which your small business is located. Well, have no fear. The Grand Junction City Council just uncovered the last remaining money trees the Obama administration hasn’t […]
A couple of weeks ago, President Barack Obama effectively declared the war on terror was over. Now, he wasn’t entirely clear about what matrix was used to arrive at that determination. It was not that the enemy had surrendered, signed an armistice, called for a cease fire or just gave up the fight. It appears […]
Perhaps you find that harsh. Well, so are life, love, war and especially business for the vast majority of us. Unless, of course, you are General Motors, Chrysler, certain banks, insurance companies, a campaign donation bundler who happens to have a green energy firm or a favored political group, then life is a subsidy away. […]
There’s a curious, at least to us, juxtaposition between the series of media events announcing large construction projects in the Grand Valley and the characterization that, overall, local construction activity remains slow. By one count, nearly a dozen projects are expected to soon begin in the Grand Valley — from the construction of a small […]
The Barack Obama administration has become a mess simultaneously convulsed by three separate scandals. Separate, yes, but each in their own way the result of a government grown too big to focus its priorities and one in which political calculation trumps all other concerns. Revelations the Internal Revenue Service inappropriately targeted conservative and Tea Party […]
First and foremost is the fact that no matter what man can create and say is weatherproof, Mother Nature doesn’t care and will eventually prove human attempts feeble. If we can’t even predict the weather patterns in advance of tornado, hurricane and winter storm seasons (unless it’s an average guess based on years of accumulated […]
Much has been made in the aftermath of the latest municipal election of the efforts of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce to shape public policy. Some claim there’s a nefarious plot afoot for the chamber and its newly formed Western Colorado Business Alliance to fill elected positions with its hand-picked candidates and then […]
I recently started reading Roger Kimball’s exceptional new book, “The Fortunes of Permanence” and am apparently in rather good company. The inestimable Jay Nordlinger relates in National Review Online that he, too, is enthralled by Kimball’s latest offering. The book touches on many important topics concerning culture, education, society and our intellectual inheritance, but centers […]
American small businesses aren’t growing, hiring, borrowing or expanding as they should be. Their owners have almost no confidence Washington can stop runaway federal spending or balance the government’s budget. Worried and uncertain over what the future might hold, these usually optimistic entrepreneurs grow more cautious by the day. Their fears and uncertainty when it […]