Prior to his retirement in 2021, Wunderlich served on a number of local non-profits and boards. He spent the past decade as a legislative advocate for the housing and real estate industries as well as a coalition of local Chambers of Commerce advocating on behalf of small and local businesses.
Lord, give me patience. Just not right yet. You’ve got to love the self-righteous indignation and handwringing from folks who have their hand stuck in the federal cookie jar right now. I don’t know if it’s all right or all wrong. But then neither do you and you’re all pretty free about sharing your opinions […]
Watching the recent election results and the more recent unseemly tussle for House speaker brought home an issue we’ve all watched evolve for years. How did we get to this partisan polarization and legislative impasse in spite of the fact that most Americans (and theoretically those we choose to represent us) inhabit a region much […]
Summertime in the Rockies where time moves slowly, as lazy afternoons fade into twilight, you might catch me enjoying a cold beverage on the porch at my cabin watching a hummingbird ballet. We’ve got a plethora of exotically plumaged hummers prompting me to do a little research on who my sparkling visitors are. If you’re […]
It may seem incongruous to include an article about retirement in a business journal dedicated to informing you of how to start, grow, protect, and nurture a business. But if you do all those things right, there may come a point in your life where you want to explore the reality of life beyond work, […]
For the past decade or more, I’ve had a sticker on my iPad that reads ‘Practice Aloha’. I got the sticker from Frida’s, arguably the best Mexican restaurant on Maui, just north of Lahaina Town on Front Street. Sadly, Frida’s is no more. Although spared by the devastating fire last year, it was sold just […]
We know it’s not just our imagination that the cost of virtually everything has exploded the past few years. Depending on which side of the political spectrum you reside, you can blame the government, inflation, the supply chain, worker productivity, greedy merchants and/or manufacturers, union demands, minimum wage, and the list goes on. But regardless […]
There are many claims made today that our Supreme Court is deeply divided and that ‘something’ should be done. Something, in this scenario, usually involves expanding the Court during times of Democratic Senate control in an effort to ‘pack’ the court with more activist judges. Because as we all know, most decisions of the court […]
Like many of us of a certain age, I first heard of the Grateful Dead in the late 1960’s. Wasn’t a fan at the time – I was more into the evolution of British Blues, whatever band Eric Clapton was playing – The Yardbirds, John Mayall, Cream, Blind Faith, Jethro Tull was on my playlist […]
I recently had the pleasure of having my family visit me in Colorado. Two of my sisters and their husbands and two of my brothers and wife drove out from Iowa to spend a week in the Colorado Rockies. My daughter from California was also able to join us for a few days of visiting […]
Before launching into today’s rant, a quick update on my recent article on property rights – specifically the case of Sheetz v. El Dorado County wherein Mr. Sheetz was charged what he considered an extortionate ‘mitigation fee’ to obtain a building permit for his property. After decisions in favor of the County in lower courts, […]
