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.

Federal Contracting in San Francisco

In news relevant to Federal contractors, construction industry players and Californians, the San Francisco Business Times reported

This morning I read Brad Heath’s article in USA Today, suggesting that the stimulus funding for road repairs has detoured and by-passed large metro areas with significant road problems.

Stimulus Projects Shovel Ready?

According to the USA Today study, half of the nation’s worst roads will receive only about 20% of the stimulus money allocated for street repairs. The reason—the roads were not shovel