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About nine years ago, companies that manufacture mechanics’ tools began receiving letters from the Doe Fund and other friends of “Joe Homeless.”

This is an earmark of a maturing industry: fewer players producing more product.

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has decided on a new energy-efficiency standard for commercial and high-rise residential buildings that would actually result in less energy efficiency and be bad for consumers, bad for businesses, and bad for our air quality.

In our high tech world of estimation systems, two-way communications, and business management software, we tend to forget about what it was like before these conveniences.

While you’ve spent a lot of time and resources trying to patch holes in your field staff, unbeknownst to you, you’ve sprung another leak.

Letters to the editor.

In The News’ case, we are encouraging you, our contractor-subscribers, to provide us with feedback — be it good, bad, or indifferent.

Letters to the editor for this week.

Thanks, period, to all who have responded to The News’ recent three-part series, entitled “Why Techs Leave.”

Without knowledge, we open ourselves up to uncertainty and speculation, which results in lost time and more importantly, lost revenue.