What’s Inside

2022 December

Where Are the Workers?

Remember the good old days when your biggest work worry was when you were going to receive that final payment for the job you just completed? Things have changed.      In October, Amazon...

2022 November

Economic Outlook

I must start by sending heartfelt congratulations to Carol Schary of Nathan Kimmel Company for winning AWCI’s Distinguished Service Award, which was presented to her last month during AWCI’s Industry Leaders Conference in New...

2022 October

Plan Ahead

If you know me, you know I don’t like numbers. I avoid doing any kind of arithmetic whenever I can, which is why I am always late in doing my taxes. Words are my...

2022 September

Use High Tech Properly

Thanks to an odd coincidence in timing, I have had to replace my washing machine, dryer, dishwasher and vacuum cleaner all within the last three months. The newness of everything made me realize just...

2022 August

We Won!

We all know it’s often the people behind the scenes who make things happen, and sometimes those people don’t get the credit or recognition they deserve. I’m not going to make that mistake.   ...

2022 June

Congratulations!

So many award winners, so little space to write about them all. As you can see from our front cover, Mike Weber was the recipient of AWCI’s Pinnacle Award during AWCI’s Convention this year....

2022 May

Reach Out!

As AWCI President Shawn Burnum said in his column this month, AWCI’s Convention & INTEX Expo was truly a great success. I went into it with the mindset that we should prepare for the...

2022 April

COVID-19: Two Years Later

It has been two years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020—the first since WHO declared the H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009. That first year involved...

2022 March

It’s Time for AWCI’s Convention

With such a large slate of interesting stories in this issue I find it difficult to know where to begin. But I will start with a story toward the end because the excitement is...