At the end of July the DOJ will hold hearings regarding the consent decrees currently in place for ASCAP/BMI. As venue operators we are already in very uncertain times and the elimination or modification to the current decrees would result in further financially impacting anyone who r

By McQ Olsen ExtraMile Arena, located in the heart of Boise State University’s campus and Idaho’s capital city of Boise, is yet another venue that has stayed busy during the COVID-19 pandemic. “At ExtraMile Arena, hundreds of staff members work tirelessly to support

By R.V. Baugus The images that came across from the path of tornadoes that ravaged Middle Tennessee hit home as eerily similar to the destruction that tornadoes caused in the Dallas area last October. There was one major difference: the ones in Tennessee resulted in the deaths of 25 p

By R.V. Baugus I always knew that Matt Gibson, CVE, was just a step ahead. Working with Matt to either receive a scheduled Arenas column from him for Facility Manager magazine or to enlist his help in getting one of his assigned committee members to please get the article turned in be

By R.V. Baugus Not saying that Gary Smith and I go back a long ways, but when I began working at then IAAM in April of 1990, his Pollstar magazine was one that arrived weekly in the mail. Gary was one of the first people in the industry I remember calling on, most likely because he wa