It’s as predictable as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. What am I referencing? The response of the left, various elected officials and much of the media to proposals to cut taxes, especially when it comes to tax relief including upper-income earners and businesses. Whether it’s due to bias or […]
Greetings and salutations from my new, palatial offices in the Business Times Tower. I’m writing you as I fend off the hordes of new clients breaking my door down to do business with me, all because I’m lucky enough to be located on those miracle miles of monetary momentum: University Boulevard. Oh, wait. I’m dreaming. […]
All’s quiet on the minimum wage front at the moment, but don’t think last year’s passage of Amendment 70 is any long-term cease fire. Advocates for higher rates will kick off the 2018 session of the Colorado Legislature with a push to let cities and counties set their own minimum wage rates. New research put […]
I know I’ve been writing about the history of health care and health insurance (with one, personal experience column) over the past several editions of the paper. First and foremost, I say health care and health insurance because they’re entirely different things, albeit related. Health care is what you go to the doctor for in […]
The privilege of telling stories about businesses and entrepreneurs is conveying information not only about the ventures themselves, but also the examples they set. This issue of the Business Times is no exception in featuring stories about businesses that illustrate the importance of adaptability, collaboration and meeting a need. The cover story offers an update […]
For more than two decades, the Internet has changed our lives. Minimal government interference allowed free market forces to work and drove investment and innovation. Then in 2015, the Barack Obama Administration decided the federal government should essentially seize control of the Internet by declaring it a public utility like electric or sewer services. In […]
A little-known legal and political battle in Southeast Colorado has the potential to cause irreparable damage to the municipal bond market. Naturally, a radical environmentalist group has its lawsuit-green fingerprints all over it. In 2004, the Arkansas River Power Authority (ARPA) decided to convert an aging gas-fired power plant in Lamar to coal. Coal, you’ll […]
As editor of a business journal, I’m in a unique position to observe the juxtaposition of two immutable circumstances. Most businesses have compelling stories to tell. Few businesses tell their stories well. Allow me to state that a bit more precisely: Few businesses pitch their stories well in their efforts to publicize information through the […]
My last column on my experience with the health care system in our valley garnered more than the normal number of responses, and a couple of them caught my attention. They also show the disparate ways people want the issue addressed. For this column, I’ll offer a general replay to the first. And if Congress […]
The numbers are in for the first half of 2017 — and they’re impressive not only individually, but also collectively. As the cover story in this very issue reports, that bodes well for businesses in Mesa County. There were year-over-year increases in sales, use and lodging tax collections, a measure of what consumers, businesses and […]