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Mesa County commissioners just created a more business-friendly environment by finally allowing an important financing tool to be utilized by businesses interested in reducing energy bills and improving their facilities. Until this week, commissioners had chosen not to opt in to the Colorado Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program — essentially sending a message that businesses interested in an affordable way to implement sustainability measures could pound sand. Mesa County was the lone holdout in western Colorado to refuse to adopt the C-PACE loan program, putting lo...

Mesa County commissioners this week agreed to let owners of commercial and industrial buildings take advantage of a Colorado program that facilitates financing of clean-energy investments, something the county previously had been reluctant to do. The commissioners unanimously agreed to let the Colorado New Energy Improvement District conduct the Colorado Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy Program, or C-PACE, within the county. The program is an initiative of the New Energy Improvement District, which was authorized under the New Energy Jobs Creation Act of 2010 and subsequent bills ame...

More than a year into this whole pandemic thing, the air-travel industry is moving past the worst of the impacts of the public largely staying home, and looking at how to best cater to the shifting motivations people have these days for wanting to fly. Those are trends playing out at the Grand Junction Regional Airport as it welcomes new airlines and flights following some dark days in 2020 and looks to a summer that may be busier than ever thanks in part to a pent-up desire by many to fly. At the same time, questions remain about what lingering negative impacts COVID-19 may have on the indus...

“How do we reverse the politically polarizing environment we find ourselves in?” The question posed to our community “Junto” (Together) group was a good one. We evaluated our community: What was working? What was not? Where was there hope for change? While there are many things that can be done to improve our community, we realized the greatest and most universal need was for human reconnection. That begins with kindness; intentionally being friendly, generous and considerate of others, no matter who they are or what they believe. The Mesa County Kindness Challenge is a bl...

“How do we reverse the politically polarizing environment we find ourselves in?” The question posed to our community “Junto” (Together) group was a good one. We evaluated our community: What was working? What was not? Where was there hope for change? While there are many things that can be done to improve our community, we realized the greatest and most universal need was for human reconnection. That begins with kindness; intentionally being friendly, generous and considerate of others, no matter who they are or what they believe. The Mesa County Kindness Challenge is a bl...