By Michael D. White, author and freelance writer Like the background score to a classic motion picture, you don’t think much about it until it isn’t there. The same is true for energy’s Big Three—oil, gas and coal—when the…
Healthcare From Crisis to Opportunity
By Jim Damicis, Senior Vice President, and Alex Tranmer, Senior Project Manager of Camoin Associates Healthcare is critical to our economy in the U.S. and across all of our regions. It is a major employment sector as well and a…
Metal Fabrication: Pounded into Shape
By Michael D. White, author and freelance writer From the hammerings of the first Iron Age blacksmith to the sounds of today’s computerized and automated forming machinery, over the eons, the fabrication of metal—copper, tin, nickel, titanium, brass, iron, aluminum…
New Technologies and Ways of Thinking Drive Business Aviation’s Exciting Future
By Ed Bolen, President and CEO, National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Our nation’s COVID year has reaffirmed our national commitment to rise up against the challenges we face. That includes a renewed awareness of areas for improvement, accompanied by a…
Four Ports: Four Aces
By Michael D. White, author and freelance writer PORT OF HOUSTON AUTHORITY Port Houston has come a long way since 1956, when it became the first port in the nation’s history to receive a containerized cargo shipment—56 containers carried from…
Good Reports in Port Industry, Expansion Ahead
By Mark R. Smith, Contributing Writer The state of the port industry today, to hear industry insiders tell it, is solid. Despite operating under the fog of COVID-19 for much of the past 18 months, it’s not hard to find…