About 2,200 federal assistance programs were available to the American public in 2013, according to Government Book Talk. It appears that was the year the publication stopped counting because programs weren’t enumerated in recent publications. It’s likely safe to assume many programs have since been added. The General Services Administration has a database of programs […]
It’s been said facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable. In other words, statistics mean never having to say you’re certain. British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli was famously credited for lumping in statistics with lies and damned lies. Given the number of humorous quotes about statistics, it’s tempting to make up a statistic about […]
But in this day and age, much of PR has become plausible repudiation. How’s that, Craig? Well, considering I’m surrounded by it daily in my job, I see this in many ways and forms every time I open my inbox. Whether it’s by commission, omission or flat out diversion, it happens all the time. Back […]
The Biden tax agenda amounts to a comprehensive attack on business, investment and wealth creation. It is, therefore, also an assault on entrepreneurship and American workers. President Joe Biden and his administration emphasize the notion that since they’re directly raising taxes on businesses and those earning more than $400,000 a year, that somehow there will […]
Some words just don’t go together. Oh, they might work splendidly all by themselves. But arranging one after the other creates a contradiction. Consider, for example, only choice or plastic glasses. If you’re afraid of breaking your stemware, your only choice is to use the plastic glasses. Right? Really? The effects of such figures of […]
Every day we hear story after story about what our all-caring government at all levels does for people. The biggest perception problem is we’ve had an everyday, good-news kind of story (along with end-times stories) for more than a year since the “15 days to slow the spread” that oddly never garnered one good news […]
“U.S. Economy Lost 140,000 Jobs in December;” “Keystone XL Pipeline Cancellation, Thousands of Jobs Lost;” “Impact of Illegal Immigration Disproportionately Affects Adult Black Males;” “$15 Minimum Wage Could Cost 1.4 Million Jobs;” “Plan to Raise Corporate Taxes Would Reduce GDP by 0.8 percent and Eliminate 159,000 Jobs.” These are some of the headlines reflecting the […]
On a clear morning 40 years ago, I wedged along with two friends into a Triumph TR7, zipped through Fort Collins to Hughes Stadium and graduated from Colorado State University. It was at once the end of one journey and the beginning of another. A journey that ultimately led to the Grand Valley and Business […]
As if restaurants and other businesses struggling to survive the pandemic needed yet another obstacle to overcome, they face a measure under consideration in the Colorado Legislature to ban plastic bags and foam takeout containers. The measure, which has passed the House, would require retail food businesses and general stores to stop using single-use plastic […]
John Marshall has some proverbially big shoes to fill as the new president of Colorado Mesa University. But he’s taking his first steps are in the right direction. Marshall will succeed Tim Foster, who in his 17-year tenure oversaw remarkable growth at CMU by nearly every measure. Between 2004 and 2019, student enrollment grew 63 […]