For anyone who read what my special guest columnist wrote, you have a little more understanding of the headline than those who missed the last edition of the Business Times. For those who missed it, my 21-year-old daughter, Evin, decided she’d write a column for me because I had a darned good reason for missing […]
Like most members of my nearly geriatric generation, I’ve watched on TV and in movies the evolution of artificial intelligence. The robot that warned Will Robinson about impending danger on “Lost in Space.” The HAL 9000 computer that refused to open the pod bay doors in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” And, of course, the T-800 […]
Myriad issues and factors affect entrepreneurship and decisions to become an entrepreneur. That includes assorted aspects of a country’s culture, including what might be considered “pop culture.” I was reminded of this when I came across an online article — titled “The TV You Watch When You’re Young Can Make You More Entrepreneurial” — about […]
“As America becomes predominantly made up of people who didn’t have a hand in building the system in the first place, it is producing more and more people who want to destroy the system because they don’t understand it. They don’t appreciate how fragile their freedom is, how precious their system of government, how rare […]
Did customer service die during the COVID-19 pandemic? Or is service just really sick? Or, does good service survive like some species mistakenly believed to have gone extinct? If that is, you’re fortunate to happen upon the right place at the right time. Like so many aspects of business and culture, I suspect it depends. […]
This column wasn’t written by who you’d expect, but rather one 21-year-old version of him. I’m Evin Hall, Craig Hall’s oldest daughter. As the oldest, I’ve always tried to be the adult — until that is, it was something I didn’t want to do. Then I’d play the “I’m still a kid card.” Even into […]
The employment report for May from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics presented some potentially troubling signals. First, it must be noted the two favorite takeaways from this report are in obvious contradiction. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 339,000 in May while the unemployment rate rose by 0.3 percentage points to 3.7 percent. Hmmm. […]
Yet another benefit of working as editor of a business journal is the opportunities the job affords to explore developments, issues and trends on both an individual and collective basis. I interview sources and collect information for stories, then assemble those stories for print and online editions. It’s sort of like viewing pointillism painting. Lean […]
I got a call the other day from someone many would consider a “community leader.” Yes, I used quotation marks. That’s because most “community leaders” are self-proclaimed or put into their roles by special interest groups. Or they’ve got job titles or own something. Usually a lot of money. There are other ways. But the […]
And let me tell you, between Mesa County and the City of Grand Junction, we live in a cross between the reality show level content of “Girls Gone Wild” and “When Animals Attack.” Although in River City, it seems some folks just watch the trailer, not the actual shows. I’ve always had a curious fascination […]