Much has been made of what’s described as a widening income gap in the United States between the poor and rich and what the federal government can — or should — do to narrow that gap. The results of a recent study confirm the federal government is already doing a lot in redistributing money from […]
As a matter of tradition as much as anything, I fully intended to write about President Barack Obama’s latest State of the Union Address. I quickly realized, though, that to do so would be as much a rewrite of my previous four late-January columns as the speech itself was little more than self-plagiarism of its […]
While it’s only natural the dreadful drubbing of the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl and continued wintry weather here in the Grand Valley might sour spirits, there also are some positive developments that fill the proverbial glass at least half full. In fact, this very issue of the Business Times serves up an ample […]
That’s right. I asked if you survived the blizzard of 2014. What blizzard, you ask? Obviously I’m referring to the storm that hit on Feb. 4 as the latest issue of the Business Times went to press. After all, just a quick perusal of Facebook would give anyone craving information all the evidence needed this […]
For reasons I won’t detour to distill here, Colorado has become something of a testing grounds for the rest of the nation. Occasionally, Colorado tests conservative ideas — the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, for example. But more often than not, policies tried out in the Centennial State have their genesis on the left. Radical environmental […]
Come hell or high water. It’s an expression that dates back more than a century to vividly describe an outcome that’s likely to occur regardless of the destructive obstacles in the way. The phrase remains just as relevant today in portraying what’s happened in Colorado. Gov. John Hickenlooper didn’t chose those particular words for his […]
A few stories in the news have got me thinking about all the problems of the world and how our nation got to the point where only the selected elected have the ability to solve them. Isn’t that the basis for political elections anymore: To take someone’s problems; create a bunch of problems; or my […]
The Business Roundtable recently released its latest CEO Economic Outlook Survey. In terms of where these executives of large companies see the United State economy going over the coming six months, one could call the outlook “more of the same.” Jim McNerney — chairman of the Business Roundtable as well as chairman, president and chief […]
The occasion of a new year invariably elicits a spirit of reflection, a spirit heightened if one spends its passing holed up with flu severe enough to bring the whole “death panels” issue into stark relief. It’s in that spirit that I offer the following observations. There are many aspects of American and western culture […]
If there’s one thing that strikes fear into hearts of the good people and business owners of the Grand Valley, it isn’t this cub reporter/advertising rep/publisher pounding on their door, calling them out of the blue or using the United States Postal Service to terrorize them into buying an ad or subscribing to the Business […]