There’s growing evidence a transmountain diversion of a different sort is under way in Colorado. Weary of fighting traffic and paying the increasing costs of renting and buying housing in the Front Range and Denver, people are moving to the West Slope and Grand Junction. Certainly some of the migrants are retirees who cash out […]
Unless I live to be 118, I’m well past midlife — at least from a strictly mathematical perspective. Does that also mean I’m past the threat of a so-called midlife crisis? Since I don’t seem to recall any bitter disappointment about the shortcomings in my life — or, in a desperate attempt to assuage my […]
Yeah, I wrote one of those columns. One that gets me calls of adoration (OK, I’m stretching that) and support from one side and creates outrage and claims of denigration on the other. Truthfully, it was all very predictable. I say this for two reasons. First, the column was written flat out from a very […]
It’s purely coincidental this issue of the Business Times includes stories about a proposed increase in lodging taxes and the remarkable efforts of a woman who’s work over the past 27 years has been funded with lodging taxes. The Grand Junction City Council didn’t vote to put the lodging tax increase on the ballot until […]
Find your passion. Choose a job you love, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. It’s advice that’s been passed down for centuries, attributed to everyone from Confucius to Mark Twain to Marc Anthony. It’s cited so frequently it’s become a commencement address cliche. It might be well-intentioned advice. But is […]
Remember just a few short weeks ago, when the left declared a constitutional — or humanitarian, or immigration power of the president or Trump is, of course, evil — crisis on our border that had to be foremost after the last crisis in Washington, D.C.? Well, I don’t recall the one before, either. But I […]
Some of the headline numbers in the June jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics require explanation. There were solid job gains, and labor force participation experienced a big jump. But the number of self-employed, an important measure of entrepreneurship, presents concerns. As for data from the establishment survey, payrolls grew by a pretty […]
I’ve gained a whole new level of appreciation for the correlation between agony and ecstasy — or rather the connection between hard work, and I mean really hard work, and immensely satisfying rewards. The epiphany occurred while I trudged up a mountain trail, my legs aching, my lungs desperate to pull a breath out of […]
New information was released about the steady increase in suicides across our country, and I know we’re all concerned. There are many great suicide awareness campaigns and prevention methods deployed in Colorado. And yet, my observation is we’re not making a consistent dent in these numbers. In fact, suicide is almost becoming a “thing” and […]
I’m beginning to wonder. What stories will our kids tell their kids? Will it be ones of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker? Because these days it feels more like the baker and the red hen faker. Is this really the point we’re at in our country? While you might have a differing […]