by GJEP Admin | Mar 21, 2021 | Daily Sentinel Economic Focus
Every year the Milken Institute publishes its Best Performing Small Cities report and Grand Junction has climbed again in our ranking of the top 200 Best Performing Small Cities. We first appeared on the list at #189 in 2017. We jumped to #131 in 2018, #81 in 2019 and...
by GJEP Admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Daily Sentinel Economic Focus
In March 2020, the Brookings Institution published a report predicting the cities whose economies would be most impacted by COVID. Grand Junction was #40 on that list, right behind Greeley at #39. Farther down were Denver at #113, Colorado Springs at #131, Ft. Collins...
by GJEP Admin | Jan 17, 2021 | Daily Sentinel Economic Focus
As I pondered what to write at the start of a new year, I looked back at the column I wrote in January 2020, when we all existed in an entirely different world. That column was about rural communities being left behind as state policy focused overwhelmingly on the I25...
by GJEP Admin | Dec 20, 2020 | Daily Sentinel Economic Focus
As 2020 Ends, It’s Time to Look Forward As we roll into the final weeks of the strangest year in my lifetime, what’s left to say that hasn’t already been said? Finding the silver lining each month when I sat down to write this column wasn’t always easy, but...
by GJEP Admin | Nov 16, 2020 | Daily Sentinel Economic Focus
So the election came and went and here we are. While the dust is still settling, it appears we will end up with a split government, which the stock market seems to appreciate. There weren’t any riots and the President has been unusually quiet, which has provided some...
by GJEP Admin | Oct 19, 2020 | Daily Sentinel Economic Focus
For the past decade, Mesa County has been labelled a distressed county. This isn’t just a descriptive term, but an actual definition of our economy with criteria that we must pass (or fail, depending how you look at it) in order to claim the title. As a result of...
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