One thing’s for sure, the only thing better than one structure being demolished is two structures being demolished at the same time.  Late last week, a decommissioned Florida Power Plant saw to the implosion of two 462 feet tall cooling towers in spectacular fashion.

[guest post] June is National Safety Month, and this week, the focus is on falls. As anyone who works in construction knows, this industry has some of the highest workplace accident and injury rates in the United States. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) ranks falls as one of their Fatal Four most deadly type of construction accidents.

Recent promises of tariffs and impending trade wars over metals, softwood lumber, and other imports have had many wondering about the effects on construction material pricing. Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc (ABC) recently analyzed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and it already shows a large increase in cost.

Learning to tie several useful knots has been on my to-do list for a while now and I’m reminded of that every time I tie some insane knot that’s way too loose or nearly impossible to un-tie.  I guess one of my my biggest hurdles is figuring out which knots would be most useful for me.

I used this phrase to describe South Carolina, as well, but Arkansas is also "consistently mediocre.  Arkansas was consistently ranked higher than 40 in the raw wage data, but they were saved, at least in terms of this countdown, by the fact that they have the second lowest cost of living in the country.  Adjusting for the cost of living raised the state's ranking 13 spots and kept it from being in the bottom 10.