Okay, so you think I went to San Francisco just to get some good eats. Not true. I also went for the program. The panel of speakers at the the mid-winter conference of the ABA’s Forum on the Construction Industry was packed with some great government contracting professionals.
To me, some of the best
I am in San Francisco this week for the MidWinter Conference of the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry. The topic this year is "Government Construction Contracting" and I will be tweeting under the hashtag #ABAConstruct.
In news relevant to Federal contractors, construction industry players and Californians, the San Francisco Business Times reported
My wife thinks I am nerd. She’s right. I rushed the kids to bed early one night last week so that I could sit in the kitchen to watch . . . okay . . . I will say it . . . the Metro Nashville Council vote on the fanancing package of the new convention center
It is hard to begin a day’s work with a warm cup of coffee, a clean office and a (fairly) new computer … knowing about the devastation in another country. I heard the death toll in Haiti could be as high as 50,000.
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According to a BBC news article this morning, experts say that it
CalGreen “California green building code” “Sierra Club” “Natural Resources Defense Council” USGBC “Elaine Hsieh”
Continue Reading CalGreen, Take Me Away! (California Adopts Greenest Building Code to Date)
A week does not go by without a friend, colleague, or new acquaintance asking me, "How do you do it all?" The short answer: "It’s tough … very tough … but I have some help. For home and family issues, I have my lovely wife. For unloading the dishwasher, I have my son. For getting out
When Nashville Mayor Karl Dean created the Green Ribbon Committee on Environmental Sustainability, he had lofty goals of making Nashville the greenest city in the Southeast. Indeed, Tennessee’s Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey shared a similar commitment to be a green "LEEDer" in the South.
Fast forward to January 2010 … Where are we on
On December 24, 2009, the United States Senate voted to pass its own version of the health care package. You have probably heard cries about the length of the bill (1,990 pages). You have probably heard the cries about the costs. But have you heard about an amendment that may significantly affect the construction industry?
According
Is it too late to discuss a case from 2009? Nah. Especially if the court released the opinion within the past two months. And according to the decision in Shelby County v. Crews (pdf), there are times when it may be too late to withdraw a condemnation petition. That line in the sand appears to be the date after