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		<title>Martin Marietta Announces Retirement of CEO Stephen Zelnak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ward Nye to assume CEO Position
(Raleigh, North Carolina)  &#8212; Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (NYSE: MLM) today announced that Chairman and CEO Stephen P. Zelnak, Jr., 64, will retire mid-year 2010 after leading the Company for over 27 years, first as a division of the aerospace company that is now Lockheed Martin Corporation, and since 1994 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaa.org/martin-marietta-announces-retirement-of-ceo-stephen-zelnak/</link>
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		<title>Note From NSSGA Government Affairs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Ward  Nye, Martin Marietta Materials, testified before the House  Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on behalf of NSSGA regarding the  impact of the stimulus on the aggregates industry.  His testimony is attached.   We have a tough story to tell and he did an excellent job of telling it in as  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaa.org/note-from-nssga-government-affairs/</link>
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		<title>July Newsletter Now Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Follow the link below for a copy of the July 2009 Newsletter.
July 2009 Newsletter
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		<link>http://gcaa.org/july-newsletter-now-available/</link>
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		<title>President Obama Taps Long Time UMWA Official As MSHA Head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama Taps Main to Lead MSHA
Jul  9, 2009  1:10 PM
On July 6, President Obama ended the speculation about who would run the Mine Safety and Health Administration by sending long-time union man Joseph Main’s name to the Senate for confirmation.
Given the Democrats strong majority in the Senate, conformation is likely. Main is in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaa.org/president-obama-taps-long-time-umwa-official-as-msha-head/</link>
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		<title>Transportation Spending &#8211; Atlanta Gets Nothing, Atlanta Gets Plenty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is an article from the July 14th AJC dissecting transportation spending in the metro Atlanta vesus the state as a whole.  Depending on who you ask, it is either plenty or not enough.  Story below.
Road money splits state
Allocation pits metro Atlanta against rest.Atlanta’s per-capita advantage riles some, makes sense to others.
By Ariel Hart
The Atlanta [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaa.org/transportation-spending-atlanta-gets-nothing-atlanta-gets-plenty/</link>
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		<title>Initial Stimulus Awards Come In Lower Than Expected &#8211; Nearly 43% Lower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GCAA analysis of the May 22 letting awards indicated that the total project awards were significantly lower than what GDOT engineers had estimated.  The AJC covered this on Saturday, June 6.  Story below.
Stimulus projects pull in low bids
Roads plans may cost 43% less than expected.State transportation officials consider how to spend remaining funds.
By Ariel Hart
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaa.org/initial-stimulus-awards-come-in-lower-than-expected-nearly-43-lower/</link>
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		<title>Obama Proposes MSHA Funding Boost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More money for more enforcement?  Despite the economy, the President has proposed increased funding on enforcement in the metal/non-metal sector.  The following from Pit &#38; Quarry Magazine.










President Barack Obama has proposed to increase funding for the Mine Safety &#38; Health Administration from $347 million this year to $354 million for the budget year that starts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaa.org/obama-proposes-msha-funding-boost/</link>
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		<title>US Highway Trust Fund to go Broke in August &#8211; From ARI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US Highway fund to go broke in August
Jun, 03 2009
(WASHINGTON, D.C.)  &#8211;  The Obama administration is warning lawmakers that the trust fund that pays for highway construction will go broke in August unless Congress approves an infusion of as much as $7 billion.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaa.org/us-highway-trust-fund-to-go-broke-in-august-from-ari/</link>
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		<title>House Transportation Chairmen Vance Smith Has &#8220;Inside Track&#8221; To Commissioner&#8217;s Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Galloway of the AJC speculates that Vance Smith has the &#8220;inside track&#8221; on being named the next GDOT Commissioner.  His article is below.
Homing in on a new DOT commissioner
5:56 pm June 2, 2009,  by Jim Galloway
Bill Kuhlke, chairman of the board that (sort of) governs the state Department of Transportation, said eight formal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gcaa.org/house-transportation-chairmen-vance-smith-has-inside-track-to-commissioners-post/</link>
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		<title>April 2009 Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A copy of the April 2009 Newsletter can be found by clicking the link below:
April 2009 Newsletter
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		<link>http://gcaa.org/april-2009-newsletter/</link>
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