{"id":1682,"date":"2011-11-21T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2011-11-23T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T22:08:16","slug":"builders-contractors-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1682","title":{"rendered":"Builders &#038; Contractors Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I was honored to receive the Associated Builders &amp; Contractors of Alaska (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcalaska.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a>) Legislator of the Year Award. ABC represents 175 construction companies throughout our state and is dedicated to improving the competitiveness of Alaska\u2019s construction industry.<\/p>\n<p>During the past several years I\u2019ve worked hard to ensure Alaska\u2019s infrastructure needs are addressed and Alaska contractors have the work needed to keep our state\u2019s economy moving forward. As Co-Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, I\u2019ve worked with colleagues to produce capital budgets that increase state savings and fund vital public works projects that put Alaskans to work building our state. This has helped ensure Alaskan families have the ability to meet their financial obligations while the lower 48 has experienced the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m honored by ABC\u2019s award and look forward to continue working to develop Alaska\u2019s infrastructure next session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I was honored to receive the Associated Builders &#038; Contractors of Alaska Legislator of the Year Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,65,27],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bert-stedman","tag-construction","tag-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}