I only wanted to build a bridge

Sunday, May 3, 2009

A friend of mine, Tom McCrackin III, was president of Associated General Contractors of Missouri in 1995. During his tenure, he wrote a profound article for the AGC titled "Viewpoint" for the Missouri Construction Advisor. In his article, he discussed all of the state and federal laws, regulations, codes, acts, agencies, paperwork and plain old burdens of government with which he had to comply while building a bridge project he had going at the time.

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