I live in the world of statistics.  Most of my focus is on the economic data that relates to the Yampa Valley.  Some people make my job a lot harder than it needs to be but I cannot do anything about it.  I specifically have a “bone to pick” with two of them – Mark [...]

There also needed to be some discussion on how economic value was going to be assigned. For us economic types, measuring the success of an economy by its ability to generate sales tax is silly. Sales tax is the primary source of our local government's funding, but it is very blunt and ineffective tool for measuring the local economy. The health of an economy is measured by its ability to produce personal income.