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Thank you for joining us for our closing session.  On behalf of the Wyoming Contractors Association, I thank all our sponsors for making our annual convention a huge success. I’ll try not to speak too loud for those of you who may have had a little too much fun last...

The 58th Annual WCA Convention was a great success during the first week of December at the Ramkota Hotel in Casper. Industry awards were as follows: Industry Workforce Training Award The Industry Workforce Training Award is a new award given for the first time this...

While some parts of Wyoming’s economy continue to lag, the future looks upbeat and bright for the state’s construction industry. This promising forecast comes from Delbert McOmie, Director of the Wyoming State Construction Department (WSCD). In recent speeches to...

They predict temperatures in the 40’s for late November in Gillette. One more reason to be thankful and tis’ the season to be thankful. As Wyoming struggles to recover from the downturn we in the construction industry have learned to be thankful for every job we can...

Mother Nature still can’t make up her mind she’s hot and she’s cold. Standard operating procedure this time of year when we have to time our outdoor activities just right. Another normal activity this time of year (which is also an extraordinary experience) is...

We’ve gotten the band back together and the Wyoming Tax Coalition is at it again. On Halloween the Wyoming Business Alliance, heading up the coalition’s latest effort, sent out a press release detailing the results of a poll that rang loud and clear: no increase in...

In the last week of September my wife Sue and I joined WCA Vice President Ray Fertig, his wife Catherine and Executive Director Katie Legerski for the AGC National and Chapter Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. We had the opportunity to see the White House and...

It looks like summer is trying to hang on for a little while longer and I, for one, appreciate Mother Nature’s efforts.  Regardless of nice weather, this time of year is the time that the associate board tries to do our end of year push to plan for convention and...

Last year I announced the ENDOW (Economically Needed Diversity Options for Wyoming) initiative. The goal is to develop a long-term (20-year) strategic plan to expand and broaden our state’s economy. The Legislature authorized the initiative in the 2017 session and...

Over the final week of August, a few of us on the WCA Board of Directors, including myself, attended the AGC Tri-State conference in Victor, ID. None of us had an easy time with the golf course there. Ernie Skretteberg can explain how the grain of the grass was...