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Thursday, May 18, 2017
More mornings than not, Mary Beth, Christy, Miriam and Donina are serenaded with at least one story of my latest house disaster. Due to their perverse natures, and the basic satisfaction that anyone gets when they learn that one of the Bosses is a long way from perfection (for me you can m...
Thursday, April 20, 2017I once had a friend introduce me as “the smartest man she knows.” I was embarrassed – did she really know how many times I had to take Calculus? But then I thought about what we consider to be smart…
I enjoy baseball and football and basketball and hockey and ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017You may have seen some recent press releases detailing a significant increase in traffic deaths in the U.S. The 7.7% increase from 2014 (32,675 traffic deaths) to 2015 (35,200 traffic deaths) reverses several years’ trend of small increases or decreases.
Traffic deaths peaked in 2005 ...
Friday, February 17, 2017One of our staff recently remarked that a local highway department was “wasting time and money” filling wet potholes with cold patch on a cold rainy day. I flashed back to a similar day last century when I looked out my dorm window and saw a Champaign Public Works crew doing the sa...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017Today we launch our company’s inaugural blog and welcome you to the Robert E. Hamilton Consulting Engineers, Inc. (REHCE) new website. Our monthly (or so) blog has been given the working title of Poop, Potables, Down Pours, Potholes, Plats, and Plans (PP,DP,PP&P)&...