How else can we explain what we hear out of our state capitals and Washington, D.C.? Just how our elected leaders and entrenched bureaucrats can binge and purge so effortlessly and methodically should be a warning sign to all of us: Because if anyone should be losing control of our bodily functions en masse, it […]
One of the best lines to come from the many presentations at the latest Energy Forum & Expo at Grand Junction encapsulated in a single sentence what it’s going to take to keep pace with increasing global energy demand: We really do need everything, everywhere all the time. But even as all-of-the-above approach involving such […]
President Barack Obama delivered a State of the Union speech last week that, for all of its soaring rhetoric, presented very little beyond a deeply flawed analysis of the American condition. What stood out most in the speech was not Obama’s assessment of the problems the nation faces — with the exception, perhaps, of his […]
In a rather simple quote from the first century A.D., Tacitus said this about government: “The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.” Find me a more appropriate quote to describe what government at way too many levels is up to in our country today, although I’ll provide another quote as to its reasoning. […]
There’s no denying the growing influence of a growing Latino population in terms of politics, culture or economics. So it’s fitting an organization has been formed to not only respond to this important change in demographics, but also help in making connections between Latino and non-Latino businesses and people. The Western Colorado Latino Chamber of […]
Counterbalancing the good news about economic recovery in the Grand Valley is the increasingly worrisome news about sales tax collections. According to the latest monthly reports, sales tax collections dropped on a year-over-year basis 4.4 percent in Mesa County and 4.1 percent in Grand Junction. The declines are doubly troublesome because they reflect sales in […]
Raymond Keating The latest news on the United States economy managed to get even worse than what we’ve experienced recently. Real growth in gross domestic product the fourth quarter of 2012 was expected to be pretty poor. But a negative 0.1 percent was even worse than those poor expectations. This was the first quarter of […]
Craig Hall, Publisher Any of you remember the television series “The West Wing?” Regardless of its left-leaning scripts and message, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. Perhaps it was the way all of the liberal utopian ideas actually worked instead of how they fail in reality. Perhaps I just enjoy escaping into the romantic aura of […]
Studies that attempt to quantify economic effects tend to elicit the skeptical response the numbers are overblown. Using mistaken assumptions and unrealistic multipliers, studies invariably purport that a given industry sector or even an individual business contributes billions and billions of dollars to the economy. Fortunately, that’s not the case with studies detailing the economic […]
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” “If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or the modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular way wrong, let it be corrected by amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. […]