kiplinger connection
Taxes • The States • The Economy
Taxes: Home-office deductions will get less cumbersome.
The States: States are finding privatization the most affordable option.
The Economy: Gasoline is less of a buoy than a rebounding home market.

DesignIntelligence Offers Future Trends Report
The editors of DesignIntelligence newletter are offering free, downloadable PDFs (4Mb) of the executive brief, Fifteen New Directions Sweeping the Design Professions, published earlier this year. The brief outlines issues such as globalization of the profession, the importance of design-build as a delivery method, the rise of BIM, the increasing difficulty of hiring talented staff, and the importance of strategic optimism.