Open source, procurement, and gov tech.
Former congressman Virgil Goode went on a little goodbye check-handing-out tour of the district, telling them that he’d gotten them federal funding. The trouble is that he hadn’t gotten the funding at all; the bill didn’t pass. Goode left these groups high and dry. He knew that the money wouldn’t come through, and didn’t tell …
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In a New York Times article about the increased cost of shipping (a 40-foot container now costs $8,000 to move from China to the U.S., compared to $3,000 just a few years ago) comes a bit of good news for manufacturing in our region: Until recently, standard practice in the furniture industry was to ship …
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