The Mesa County Economic Update is provided by the Business Department of Colorado Mesa University and is published quarterly. Associate Professor of Economics Nathan Perry has done the Mesa County Newsletter to serve as a public good for the past year.
Perry started Mesa County in quarter two of 2017 and Mesa County in the fall of 2017.
The newsletter includes local information, local economic information, labor markets, sales tax, local real estate, local and national energy and a national section for both Mesa and Montrose Counties.
Perry is the only one that works on this newsletter and analyzes all the information that’s in it.
“You can go to different places and get bits of data. There are real estate companies that produce real estate data and there is some energy date out there,” Perry said. “But there is not a one-stop source for all of the information that may be relevant to Mesa and Montrose Counties.”
The idea of this was to create a newsletter with a variety of interested parties could use. Parties like people in real estate, people in the energy industry or people who work for the government or in finance.
People may need economic data to make a decision on business. You can find the economic summary inside, the local labor market, the employment trends and more.
Perry plans to keep analyzing economic information for the newsletter forever.
“I like doing it, it’s really neat. I get to teach economics and I publish and other things but it’s fun to be a local economist, does that make sense?” Perry said. “You are teaching about bigger things in business but this keeps me really in tune locally.”
Perry loves bringing his local examples into the classroom and it has good synergy for him with everything that he does.
CMU students at this point, can’t help Perry collect data but he is open to it in the future.
“I’ve managed to set things up so I can collect the data in a very efficient way,” Perry said. “It’s something I am open for in the future. I kind of want total control over it, to get it going and to get the efficiencies in it.”
The Mesa County and Montrose County quarter one of 2018 is up now, and you can subscribe to the Mesa and Montrose County Newsletter.
