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Contract Surety 11.01.2024

Financing for Clean Power Projects

  The first, national, green bank in the United States, the Coalition for Green Capital, is open for business, with the goal of directing $5 billion from 2022’a Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into projects supporting…
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Financing for Clean Power Projects
Contract Surety 11.01.2024

College Vs Trade School?

  As many young people weigh the pros and cons, more and more are leaning into trade schools. Practical considerations related to costs and eagerness to earn a steady pay-check are tipping the scales—a good…
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College Vs Trade School?
Contract Surety 10.30.2024

Hungering For Your Next Bid?

  Though not afraid of bidding, successful contractors use a thoughtful process for vetting the projects they choose to bid on. Having the ability to bid is an important capacity, but a “willy nilly” approach…
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Hungering For Your Next Bid?
Contract Surety 10.30.2024

What Time Is It? 

  You’re far from alone if you feel like the day got out from under you via unproductive meetings, the back and forth of emails and a vortex of petty details. Absent a magic wand,…
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What Time Is It? 
License & Permit Bonds 10.24.2024

Understanding The Role: Notary Signing Agent

Notaries provide an important public service by checking identification and witnessing signatures on a wide range of documents. Notary signing agents also check identification and witness document signing, but take on the added responsibility of…
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Understanding The Role: Notary Signing Agent
Court Bonds 10.22.2024

Shifting Asset Ownership?

  Assigning assets to new owners can be a useful estate planning strategy, especially when circumstances make a speedy and private inheritance preferable. In essence, when asset ownership is effectively shifted ahead of death, the…
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Shifting Asset Ownership?
Court Bonds 10.22.2024

Dementia and Guardianship?

  Reckoning with the progressive cruelties of dementia is an ongoing and stressful process for impacted families. Though tendencies to deny and minimize the challenges are understandable, a proactive approach to designating decision makers to…
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Dementia and Guardianship?
Surety Bonds 10.18.2024

Why Wait: Resiliency Projects

  As the work of rebuilding after Hurricanes Helene and Milton unfolds, states across the country are pressing ahead with critical “infrastructure resiliency” projects designed to curtail damage and improve preparedness in the face of…
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Why Wait: Resiliency Projects
Surety Bonds 10.18.2024

It’s Time: Get The Lead Out

  As many of us across the country continue drinking water through “lead straws,” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking to speed up replacement of lead pipes via new regulations and a ten year…
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It’s Time: Get The Lead Out