New piece in The Hill, French & Ungar-Sargon on the podcast, Mississippi Kites in OK
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New Piece in The Hill on Manchin-Schumer, David French and Batya Ungar-Sargon on the podcast, & Mississippi Kites in Oklahoma A lot of travel this week. On Monday, I was in Wichita speaking to the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association. The turnout was pretty big: I estimate there were about 500 people in the audience. But the memorable thing for me wasn’t so much the size of the crowd, but rather the size of the trade show. At the convention center, there were dozens of booths at the trade show, the majority of which were owned by small-to-medium-sized businesses that were providing goods and services to the industry. They were selling everything from insurance to monitoring equipment. And once again, the common refrain I heard from many of the people running the booths was the need for more people. One of the people I spoke to worked at an Oklahoma City-based company that provides environmental and safety technology to the industry and will do about $10 million in revenue this year. He said the company had 12 openings that it can’t fill. The problem: too few applicants can qualify and those that can either don’t want to work that hard or can’t pass a drug test.
New piece in The Hill, French & Ungar-Sargon on the podcast, Mississippi Kites in OK
New piece in The Hill, French & Ungar-Sargon…
New piece in The Hill, French & Ungar-Sargon on the podcast, Mississippi Kites in OK
New Piece in The Hill on Manchin-Schumer, David French and Batya Ungar-Sargon on the podcast, & Mississippi Kites in Oklahoma A lot of travel this week. On Monday, I was in Wichita speaking to the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association. The turnout was pretty big: I estimate there were about 500 people in the audience. But the memorable thing for me wasn’t so much the size of the crowd, but rather the size of the trade show. At the convention center, there were dozens of booths at the trade show, the majority of which were owned by small-to-medium-sized businesses that were providing goods and services to the industry. They were selling everything from insurance to monitoring equipment. And once again, the common refrain I heard from many of the people running the booths was the need for more people. One of the people I spoke to worked at an Oklahoma City-based company that provides environmental and safety technology to the industry and will do about $10 million in revenue this year. He said the company had 12 openings that it can’t fill. The problem: too few applicants can qualify and those that can either don’t want to work that hard or can’t pass a drug test.