From the monthly archives: August 2007

Today we are exactly one year out from the start of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Besides being general fans of the Olympics we have several employees training to hopefully participate in Beijing in the rowing events. They made a good showing a few weeks back at the Pan Am games bringing back medals – [...]

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One of the natural questions to follow a tragic event like the I 35W Minneapolis bridge collapse is where are there other bridges that could suffer a similar fate. In our last post we talked about the National Bridge Inventory, the valuable information contained in it, and the difficulty working with it.

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Turning Faith-Based Voters Blue

On August 3, 2007 By admin

If you’ve been following the 2008 Presidential battle, you may have noticed that the Democratic front runners have been discussing their faith much more than in previous election cycles. According to The The Hill’s Alexander Bolton, the party as a whole is targeting religious Americans. The column states that DNC Chairman Howard [...]

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Yesterday’s story of the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis was both tragic and scary. The event has quickly raised the question of how safe are America’s bridges. There is a very comprehensive set of data on America’s bridges called the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) maintained by the Federal Highway Adminsitration. The [...]

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Flight Delay: Who's to Blame?

On August 1, 2007 By admin

Air Travel Delays: Bad, Getting Worse, so reads the Washington Post today. And we’ve all seen the recent coverage of stranded Northwest airlines passengers.

Everyone has a story to tell. You get to the airport two hours in advance of your flight, check in, make your way through the security checkpoint, arrive at [...]

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