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      <title>Bark and Build - AVAILABLE: New Homes for Your Pooch (or Cat?)</title>
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        <![CDATA[Give your family's dog a brand new home, designed and built by national and local design and construction firm teams! Only 15 homes will be built. Available in early December 2015!]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Does Your Leader REALLY Support Your Company’s Safety Program?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Leader: If you don't show up for your company Safety Program judging, don't&nbsp;expect to win!]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:41:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>We Want To Be Savvy Issue Spotters - NOT Attorneys</title>
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        <![CDATA[In the last three months, four clients called me about six situations that were causing them to lose sleep. Not surprisingly, in each case, with help from a&nbsp;recent NASBP document, we determined they needed legal advice from a construction attorney.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 13:25:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Worker Misclassification: Enforcement is Coming</title>
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        <![CDATA[An update on the Worker Misclassification problem, as reported by Bloomberg.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Want to Know What Your Bonding Company Thinks? Read ENR's Special Ad Section</title>
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        <![CDATA[If you bond much of your work, you might want to read what the industry leaders have to say in ENR's Special Advertising Section, in ENR's June 24, 2013 edition.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>People Don't Call Me When They’re Bleeding Profusely! Distracted Driving Awareness Month</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:49:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>How Contractors Can Make More Money By Cheating: Worker Misclassification</title>
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        <![CDATA[There are contractors who don&rsquo;t care about employment regulations. They ignore the regulations that distinguish an employee from an Independent Contractor.&nbsp;There are substantial efforts underway to stop the practice that costs all taxpayers.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/blogs/16-bonds-insurance-and-other-reasons-contractors-lose-sleep/post/13930-how-contractors-can-make-more-money-by-cheating-worker-misclassification</link>
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      <title>Appreciate Your New Politicians! I'm Serious!</title>
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        <![CDATA[When you think about what our politicians have to know to do their job well, maybe it's time we appreciate their efforts.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Ticking Time Bond: Going Down to the Last Four Minutes on Bid Bond Approval</title>
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        <![CDATA[Last minute bid approvals work best when the bonding team is ready, and it suggests other areas where teams must be ready ahead of time to work best for a construction company.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Where Is My Money? Why the Senate Should Pass H.R. 3534</title>
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        <![CDATA[How Can H.R. 3534 Guarantee That a Federal Project Payment Bond Is NOT Worthless?]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:07:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Risk Analysis: Prefabbers Sleep Better, Eventually</title>
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        <![CDATA[Prefabricating 754 hospital patient room bathrooms has a lot of advantages.&nbsp;But you better be sure everything is where it's supposed to be!]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The Latest Bonding Battle</title>
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        <![CDATA[We really do want to bond small contractors, in spite of what Smart Money thinks!]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>How Much Damage Can One Little . Cause?</title>
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        <![CDATA[How can a simple decimal point cause such problems?&nbsp; Put it in the wrong place and have someone try to&nbsp;ignore it or miss it because they didn't read their contract.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:31:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>You’ll Pay Me When??  I'm a Sub, Not a Bank!!</title>
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        <![CDATA[Why do owners insist on&nbsp;using contract language that&nbsp;forces GC's to&nbsp;pass on requirements&nbsp;to Subs that they shouldn't have to agree to?]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Distracted Driving – Revisited</title>
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        <![CDATA[Thankfully, MORE people are paying attention to their driving, and less to PED* DISTRACTIONS.&nbsp;]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:55:56 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Word Combinations that Make Contractors Lose Sleep</title>
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        <![CDATA[Nobody in the construction business wants to hear these phrases:Dump Truck and a School BusConstruction Worker Deaths in Sewer Line]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>The 17 Reasons Your Bonding Underwriter Loses Sleep</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bond underwriters have a lot of things to worry about when they're approving bonds for construction projects. Whether the bonds are for a $100,000 or $100,000,000 project, they need to be sure they're making the right decision. Unlike insurance, the assumption is there will be no losses on a bond. If there are, the underwriter will have some explaining to do.&nbsp;Some of the things they worry about most are listed below.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>You Talk, You Text, You Crash: Why We Need Distracted Driving Programs</title>
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        <![CDATA[If your company hasn't caught up with OSHA's new program about prohibiting&nbsp;texting while driving, it's time to pay attention.&nbsp;]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>https://www.enr.com/blogs/16-bonds-insurance-and-other-reasons-contractors-lose-sleep/post/13643-you-talk-you-text-you-crash-why-we-need-distracted-driving-programs</link>
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      <title>What Do You Mean They Won't Approve the Bond? And Other Causes of Sleeplessness</title>
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        <![CDATA[Anyone who works very long in the construction industry eventually spends part of some night staring at the ceiling trying to figure out how they&rsquo;ll handle a problem that WILL require attention.When I spent 20 years helping build projects, there were some wide-awake nights. As a bond agent, there are also]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:21:41 -0400</pubDate>
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