November 21, 2017
Talking Turkey. Is it just us, or does it feel like Black Friday began about three weeks ago? Either way, the holiday season is upon us, and here’s a roundup of the year so far: Back to the Classroom VP […]
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November 16, 2017
Innovation, Interruption or Disruption? “Pardon the interruption.” Or: “Welcome to our disruption.” If we interrupted, you were in the middle of a sentence and we chimed in with our statement. Hurricane Harvey was a major disruptor—to life, to business, to […]
November 8, 2017
Or: The Texas Two-Step. Our past two entries focused on the pitfalls of potholes, followed by the need for constant highway maintenance across the country. This week, we land much, much closer to (our) home. As we’ve proudly noted in […]
November 1, 2017
Funding the Highway Trust Fund. Following our entry last week on the pitfalls of potholes, we expand the issue this week to highway construction and maintenance in general. Simply put: our nation’s roads provide a lifeline for passenger and commercial […]
October 25, 2017
The Effect of Roads on Vehicles. Our infrastructure is a major component of what keeps the national and state economies humming. Sometimes we patch up roads, repair bridges, refortify tunnels. Sometimes we build new ones. In the short view, it’s […]
October 17, 2017
Driving with Mutual Respect. The most recent statistics show that, in 2015, the United States has the second largest number of passenger vehicles in the world. That’s more than 263 million cars and trucks. Of those, more than eight million […]
October 3, 2017
Flooding Raceways with Vehicles. The impact of Hurricane Harvey continues to have a highly challenging ripple effect. While this is felt most prominently in Texas, other geographic areas also are experiencing the consequences. For example: an estimated one million cars […]