Nobody appreciates more the hectic pace business owners and managers maintain in running their operations, all the while striving to make time for family and personal pursuits. Nonetheless, we’d like to suggesting one more thing for them to do: share their views. More specifically, we’d like them to share their views with this publication in […]
Tax season got you down? Weary taxpayers — not to mention their accountants — scaling mountains of paperwork piled high for the IRS can take at least some consolation from the latest results of an annual analysis of income and tax statistics. Coloradans will work two fewer days this year than last to earn enough […]
Long-range budget projections are always packed with uncertainty. Changes in the underlying economic assumptions, eventual economic realities and shifts in policy making give such estimates limited value. Some value can be found, however, in terms of determining the general direction current budget policies are pointed and where they could take federal spending, revenues, deficits and […]
To the editor: My two cents’ worth. When the Delta rec center was completed, it put three privately owned health clubs out of business in just a few months. Anyone with any business sense at all could see it coming. The private entities just did not have millions of dollars and a wonderful piece of […]
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 […]
If Dwayne Romero could wave a magic wand and instantly bring back a vibrant economy to Colorado, he would. As it turns out, the new executive director of the Office of Economic Development and International Trade just happens to have a magic wand, a sparkly one he borrowed from his 5-year-old daughter shortly after he […]
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” The words of Eleanor Roosevelt undoubtedly sound familiar to the instincts of many Americans who’ve persevered against the economic challenges of the last three years, but perhaps none more so than women entrepreneurs. Roosevelt also wrote, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience […]
I recently joined two other state senators in sending a letter to Mark Udall and Michael Bennet. We urged the U.S. senators from Colorado to support a provision included in a U.S. House-passed funding resolution that would block the blatant obstructionism of oil shale research and development originating from the desk of Interior Secretary Ken […]
The same message comes through loud and clear every year at the Energy Expo & Forum in Grand Junction. Energy demand is expected to continue its steep upward climb in the United States and rapidly developing economies around the world. Not counting oil, natural resources are available to keep pace with demand. But regulations and […]
Every year, my editor rewrites his once-a-year rant about “how to tell your story to the news media.” It’s a comprehensive missive about how to properly write a news release and the consistent mistakes almost every business makes in writing (or not writing) them. As the first paragraph from Phil relates: “As editor of a […]