Christmas comes early in the latest version of an annual forecast characterizing the business and economic outlook for Mesa County in 2019 as not just positive, but “extremely positive.” That’s the verbatim summary of a section on Mesa County in the 2019 Colorado Business Economic Outlook compiled by the research division of the Leeds School […]
A childhood memory haunts me like the Ghost of Christmas Past. I was maybe 5 years old, snuggled into bed on Christmas eve and — of course — wide awake. I recall with clarity a loud thump on the roof just above my upstairs bedroom. It sounded like a heavy object landed there. A sleigh […]
Where are shoppers spending their money this holiday season? Inside actual, honest-to-goodness brick and mortar stores or in virtual stores on the internet? All of the above, according to businesses and organizations tracking the trends. The news is generally promising for retailers in the midst of what for many of them is the most wonderful […]
Since our last printing, I turned another page on my calendar of life. I’ve survived 57 years on this planet — some of those years long, some of them hard and some of them that simply disappeared in their speed and with all of the craziness and drama with which they came. Like the ketchup, […]
If you don’t mind a personal question, tell me: What time do you wake up? Are you early to rise, eager to get more done before 9 a.m. than most people do all day? Or do you prefer to ease into mornings, repeatedly whacking the snooze button as if you were chopping wood? Personally speaking, […]
On second thought, maybe promoting Small Business Saturday on Nov. 24 might do more harm than good. Harm in the discomfort it could cause people not used to dealing with human beings when making a purchase, asking about a product, or, heaven forbid, coming across someone they know in a Main Street shop. What to […]
Well, the election didn’t turn out like I hoped. But it certainly turned out how I suspected. And once again two things remain certain: Freedom will continue to be taken at our local and state levels, and Democrats will prove they want nothing but power and to punish on the federal level. Both of these […]
Elections and football games have a way of making me think about winning and losing — along with bad winners and good losers. In a world of wearying ambiguity, what could be more refreshingly decisive than what happens after ballots are counted and the game clock winds down? What could be more telling than the […]
Quick quiz: How does the United States compare to other countries in terms of its tax structure? How competitive is the U.S. internationally as a result? There’s good news and bad. Thanks to federal reforms enacted under the Tax Cuts and Job Act, the U.S. moved up four spots in the 2018 International Tax Competitiveness […]
By the time this column is published and distributed, we’ll know exactly who the enemy is and who we need to fear once they take their elected positions in our local, state and federal governments. Enemy, Craig? Really? Yes, really. Here’s why. As I looked over the ballots locally and across the country, I saw […]