As I venture into my 54th year of continuing education on the phrase “no good deed goes unpunished” comes the latest lesson from the great nanny state known as a “notice of decision.” I guess my last notice lesson from more than 10 years ago wasn’t fresh enough in my head to see this one […]
Indiana enacted a state version of a federal law written by Ted Kennedy and signed by Bill Clinton, and liberals would have you believe it reincarnated a version of apartheid in the Hoosier state. And that’s just one of the conundrums associated with this story. The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act allows religious liberty as […]
Hilltop Community Resources in Grand Junction has earned well-deserved recognition for its efforts to foster a culture of health and wellness. Hilltop was among only five employers nationwide to win the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award from the American Psychological Association. For an encore, Hilltop won the inaugural Governor’s Award for Worksite Wellness here in Colorado. […]
What’s more difficult? Filing income tax returns or working hard to earn money to pay those taxes. The good news is another tax filing deadline has come and gone. With the exception of those requesting extensions, the tedious chore of making all those calculations and completing all those forms is mercifully over for another year. […]
In our 24/7 news world, it now seems as though we also have a 365/52 political season. We went through our county, state and national elections in November and just got done with our city elections this month. Now contenders are already lining up to become the next president of the United States. It never […]
With only a little more than a year and a half until the presidential election, I reckon it’s well past time for me to weigh in on the race. I don’t suppose it will help to point out that at this point prior to the 2004 election it looked like Hollerin’ Howard Dean would be […]
Most people of a certain age can recall the summer jobs of their youth. Washing dishes in a restaurant. Waiting on customers in a retail shop. Cleaning up on a construction site. It wasn’t so much the specific skills people learned that were necessarily valuable, but the more general lessons that were so important. Showing […]
Eight times a year, the Federal Reserve releases its “Beige Book,” an assessment of economic activity in each of its 12 districts based on anecdotal evidence. While the report helps Fed policymakers make decisions on monetary policy, the report also offers a tool for small businesses. So what does the latest report communicate to those […]
And then we’d never have another problem in our society, what with all of the know-it-alls running around. Nirvana in a nutshell. Maybe we could skip the elections and declare everyone a winner in the same way we give out trophies for participation and every problem would then be solved. Hey, it’s a better alternative […]
Now and then I feel a twinge of guilt criticizing the Barack Obama administration’s foreign policy, or what passes for it. It feels like cheating. I mean, it can’t really be as bad as it seems, can it? At some point, you have to think a viable plan will emerge, lessons will be learned, some […]