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 […]
When it comes to evaluating economic data, expectations play a big part in the final assessment of how good or bad the numbers turn out. That’s certainly the case with third quarter data released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis for gross domestic product, the broad measure of goods and services produced in the […]
I wonder how many folks knew Nov. 19 marked the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address? Since Lincoln is my all-time favorite president, I celebrate his greatest speech every year at this time. The Gettysburg Address offers the premier example of the dreams and beliefs our founding fathers had in terms of their abhorrence […]