The way Jack Hays explains it, it sounds so simple managing the companies he’s launched in Western Colorado. It’s just a matter of identifying and exploiting opportunities for growth. Hays puts it this way: “We find a need and fill it. We provide solutions.” Any good entrepreneur like Hays will attribute success in large part […]
It takes a lot of courage to start a small business. It takes even more courage to stick with it during tough times like these when the nation’s financial structure is wobbling, uncertainty fills the air and even the basic principles of free enterprise are questioned by anti-business politicians. Although the sinking economy has threatened […]
Why should small business owners and their employees care about the recall election in Wisconsin or local elections in California? The key reason: The failure to remove Gov. Scott Walker constitutes a significant failure for government labor unions. Those labor unions didn’t like the fact that Walker carried through on his campaign promises to limit […]
As I write this column and the Business Times goes to press on a Tuesday, I’m prompted to write about two things that will be decided before most of you even read this: The Obamacare Supreme Court decision and our local primary race for Mesa County commissioner between Rose Pugliese and Woody Walcher. Yes, those […]
The residential construction industry has long constituted an important component of the Mesa County economy. Consider that the construction of 100 single-family homes creates an average of more than 300 jobs. So it was significant when the home building industry surged in the boom days and suffered in the bust that followed. Now there are […]
In its latest economic outlook, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projects further economic underperformance in the U.S. and other developing nations. While the global economy is “gaining momentum,” the OECD warns “the recovery is fragile, extremely uneven across different regions. The group forecasts Europe will barely grow at 0.1 percent in 2012 and […]
Got your eye on a new way to expand your business? See a sure move to beat competitors? Today, you and lots of small business owners are eager to seize opportunities to grow, create jobs and capture market share. But that big cloud of uncertainty hanging over Washington, D.C., stops you dead in your tracks. […]
There’s no small measure of irony in the fact the company that manufactures components for the largest and most innovative aquarium projects around the world maintains its headquarters in the landlocked desert of Western Colorado. Nonetheless, there are millions of reasons to be thankful Reynolds Polymer Technology is located in Grand Junction — as in […]
The recent election in Wisconsin got me thinking about the opportunities to change the direction in the country that should be plain as day, but are somehow missed due to busy lives, attentions being diverted elsewhere and for all too many, absolute ignorance. What occurred in Wisconsin was a simple exercise to re-affirm freedom and […]
We’re more than seven months through the current fiscal year. Is anything really changing after the massive increases in federal spending over the past few years? Unfortunately, though unsurprisingly, the answer is no. Keep in mind that federal outlays from 2007 to 2011 jumped by 32 percent — from $2.73 trillion to $3.6 trillion. Due […]