Category Archives: Financial

Feeling Better?

It’s year’s end, and I’m reading a lot of financial and economic reports. They tell us how we did in 2010 and make predictions about what 2011 will be like. The consensus is that, economically, the worst is over, and we are recovering. But it is a very slow recovery.

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Q&A With Larry Bradley part 2

Larry Bradley’s response that I posted in my last entry raised a couple more questions, so I went back to the source for a little more information. JG: Larry, you said that NEBF is in great shape now, what’s to prevent it from entering the “red zone” sometime in the future? Are the Trustees making … Read more »

Q&A With Larry Bradley

All the news about troubled financial markets is enough to make anyone nervous about their own investments. So I asked Larry Bradley, Secretary-Treasurer for the National Electrical Benefit Fund, a couple of the questions that had been on my mind recently about the NEBF. JG: It seems like every time I read a newspaper or … Read more »

New Construction Documents — NECA’s Working for You

Occasionally I ask fellow NECA staff to tell the members what they have been working on. Dan Walter, NECA VP/COO recently submitted the following post on contract documents. By: Dan Walter Except for very small projects, the relationship between an electrical contractor and its customer (either owner or general contractor) is usually formalized by a … Read more »