Congratulations to Jen Zeuner and Anne Keller for their latest accomplishment: Their selection as Entrepreneurs of the Year in Mesa County. The two restaurateurs are coming up on the 10th anniversary of operating the Hot Tomato pizzeria in Fruita and managing what’s been remarkable growth for their venture over the past decade. What’s more, a […]
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was referring to Russia in his famous quotation from 1939. But if he were still alive, Churchill just as well could have been talking about the Colorado Legislature. It’s a riddle state lawmakers enact some measures to recruit businesses […]
Please forgive me, but the pressure is too great to not publish this column. Full disclosure: I’m a New England Patriots fan, but like anything else in DeflateGate, that doesn’t matter. You see, the whole Wells Report uproar isn’t about Tom Brady, Bill Belichick or the Patriots. It comes down to one thing: Just how […]
OK. I’ll admit it. I’ve long harbored an unusual fantasy. I want to be a commencement speaker. I yearn to join the celebrities invited to campuses each year to shower graduates with wit and wisdom. I can almost hear the raucous laughter that follows a deftly delivered punch line. I can almost see the tears […]
President Barack Obama finds himself in unfamiliar — and uncomfortable — territory. In working out a Pacific trade deal, the president is surrounded in general agreement by Republicans even as the Democratic base — among whom he’s more accustomed to being held up in near deistic adulation — is staring at him from across the […]
here’s just something about business success stories that fire the imagination and inspire would-be entrepreneurs to launch ventures. There’s nothing better, in fact, than tales of how luck and pluck carry entrepreneurs and their businesses from rags to riches. They stories are so compelling because they offer hope others can similarly turn good ideas and […]
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. […]