Posts tagged Business News

• Local broadcasters try to block EchoStar

  Staff Writer | December 01, 2006 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  An article from today's Denver Post reports that local broadcasters in Colorado filed a motion to block EchoStar Communications' last-minute effort to circumvent a court ruling and continue to provide more than 900,000 DISH network customers with its distant-network signals. This is part of a seven-year legal battle in this copyright law case, the story says.Apparently today is the deadline for...

• New County Judge Sworn In

  Staff Writer | July 07, 2006 9:37 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Gretchen Larson, a senior trail deputy district attorney with the Mesa County District Attorney's Office, is Mesa County's newest county court judge. Mesa County population is approximately 120,000 with people spread across 15 different cities including Grand Junction, Fruita and Palisade. Due to a 350% increase in the number of cases filed in Mesa County since 1972, legislators approved the...

• PERA solution promises to be elusive

  Staff Writer | April 27, 2006 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Denver Post reports that Various factions of the state's largest pension plan discover that common ground is hard to find at Monday's meeting. Finding a compromise on reforms to the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association could prove a tougher battle than he first imagined, state Rep. Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, said Monday. There were some good discussions and some guarded...

• Proposed Liquor Store Sparks Heated Debate

  Staff Writer | March 06, 2006 9:06 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In spite of bitter and emotional opposition from residents of Palisade, the town's Trustees voted in favor of allowing a new liquor store near Taylor Elementary School. Here's an excerpt from the article:Trustee Hanna addressed parents who were concerned about children walking through the liquor store parking lot as they walk home from school.Kids "should not be lingering without adult...

• Albertsons will be Albertsons

  Staff Writer | February 20, 2006 11:23 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A New York City investor group has acquired all Albertsons stores in the Rocky Mountains, the Southwest, Florida, northern California and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The stores, including the three Albertsons in Grand Junction area, will be operated under the Albertsons name on an ongoing basis.Cerberus Capital Management, based in New York City, leads the investor group which includes...