If there’s a common denominator to recent business stories, its the growing realization it’s could take a more concerted effort to yank Western Colorado out of its economic doldrums. Years after the official end to the Great Recession, the region continues to lag behind other areas of the state and country in recovering. It’s not […]
With great foresight, the founders of this nation endeavored to protect private property from the federal government. In the West, we know this protection extends to privately held water rights. Unfortunately, recent history has shown the federal government is more than willing to overreach its authority to try and acquire private water rights, through coercion […]
It’s unfailingly ironic, yet entirely expected, liberal Democrats characterize themselves as “progressive” and yet feel an insatiable need to promote policies that’ve been tried before, often repeatedly, and reliably fail at every attempt. Partly to redirect attention away from his signature debacle — there are many competing for the honor, but Obamacare wins insomuch as […]
The end of one year naturally prompts a look ahead to the next year. Unfortunately for some business owners and managers who’ve struggled through a slow economic recovery in the Grand Valley, it’s something like a welcome gasp of relief sucked through teeth clinched tight in terror. OK, we survived that. Now what? As usual, […]
For those of you who know me well, this might sound like a very odd thing to say given the upheaval in all things personal. But with every cloud comes a silver lining. When one door closes, another one opens. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Yeah, I know, whatever. You get the picture. But […]
As much as the Barack Obama administration generally approaches international affairs as someone with the mechanical inclination of Queen Victoria might approach a garage, the Iranian nuclear deal and Chinese saber-rattling in the East China Sea had to offer a welcome distraction from the ongoing cataclysm that is the administration’s (now unintentionally) defining achievement — […]
I’ll be the first to admit I have absolutely no idea what the FBI was doing and has been doing out at Grand Junction Regional Airport. I only can attest to the fact the FBI was at the airport on Nov. 6, because I was delivering papers that particular day. (Yes, under the job title […]
To pose a question from the lyrics of a popular 1980s movie theme song: “Who you gonna call?” When it comes to enlisting assistance in keeping their operations running in Mesa County, small business owners and managers actually have a lot of choices among members of a coalition of organizations and entities promoting economic development. […]
Over the last month there have been lots of changed attitudes in Washington about President Barack Obama’s health care law. With new issues arising almost daily from the disastrous rollout, the president and congressional Democrats can’t escape the fact the law is broken. Because of this, the conversation is beginning to shift toward finding alternative […]
Democrats find themselves standing shell-shocked among the ruins of their signature socio-economic achievement of the past decade. Sure, they’re putting on a brave face, frantically spinning each new revelation of just how complete the failure of Obamacare is becoming, fanatically combing hill and vale for some snippet of… well, if not good news, then at […]