Business owners and managers can be forgiven if they’re convinced there’s a determined plot afoot in our country to go after the proverbial geese that lay the golden eggs — if not to kill the geese outright, then substantially hamper egg production. How else to explain the various regulations and rulings affecting everything from energy […]
Morgan Cullen Our organization has been fighting hard to make Colorado the strongest place for business in America. So when Business Insider ranked Colorado the No. 1 economy in the country — based on its strong state GDP, high wages and exports — we pinned the article up on the wall in our offices. It […]
Well, this presidential election cycle has taken a turn for the surreal, hasn’t it? Three of the candidates drawing the largest crowds — Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton — are characters you’d expect to see written into the pages of satire. Unfortunately, this is an actual run for chief executive of what’s still […]
Entrepreneurs have a knack for not only recognizing and meeting needs in a marketplace, but also responding to changing conditions. Given proverbial lemons, they make lemonade. A Grand Junction couple offers an excellent example of this ability. Faced with a downturn in the energy sector their machine shop serves, Lindsey and Aaron Robinson decided to […]
The personal liberties, entrepreneurial opportunities and professional sports franchises of the United States notwithstanding, there’s a lot to admire about Canada. In fact, Canada has ranked No. 1 for four out of the last six years in a list of the top 20 most admired countries in the world compiled by the Reputation Institute. Canada […]
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors — when you see that […]
Three down and one to go. It was probably just coincidental, but in the past two years, Colorado has become a focal point of legal decisions on business issues with national implications. Three of the four cases giving our state this — from business perspective — unwanted attention have been settled, with the biggest remaining […]
Most people, regardless of their views on abortion, were revolted by recent videos showing Planned Parenthood officials talking cavalierly about the harvesting of healthy fetal body parts and discussing the terms of the sale of those parts over wine at lunch. A bit of national nausea is in order. Debate over the moral propriety of […]
The recent debate between the Republican contenders campaigning for election as president illustrates the disconnect that can occur between what concerns voters and what candidates to elected offices spend most of their time talking about. Prior to the GOP debate, Gallup released a list of questions Americans would ask the presidential hopefuls if they had […]
I usually tend to draw back from folks who use the term “fait accompli.” But let’s face facts folks, this term could not apply any more perfectly to the upcoming, unquestioned name change of North Avenue to University Boulevard. This has to be the worst-kept, next-approved item on the city council’s agenda since they revved […]