With the 2025-2026 NFL football season kicking off next week, the open question is not whether the Philadelphia Eagles will repeat as Super Bowl champions, whether Baltimore Ravens Quarterback Lamar Jackson can regain his MVP form, or even whether the Dallas Cowboys will finally make their way back to the NFC playoffs…
In his autobiography, when discussing how “figures often beguile” him, Mark Twain popularized the phrase “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
Thought of the Week As I mentioned last week, Congress is currently on its month-long August recess; coincidentally, yesterday marked the 200th day of Donald Trump’s presidency. Rather than focusing on putting out daily policy-related fires, Congressional recesses typically allow government affairs types time to sit back and contemplate some of the grander questions we
Last week, I was able to escape the swamp-like conditions of Washington, D.C., and trade them for the near perdition-like temperatures of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. There, I visited our Steel Summit subsidiary and made my way to Nashville for The Conference Board’s quarterly Government Relations Executive Council meeting.