Well, last night\u2019s big meeting between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Pittsburgh\/Pennsylvania government officials ended without a deal on a new arena. The agreed-upon next step was for the parties to meet again Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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So all that Mario Lemieux and Ron Buerkle\u2019s incendiary letter seemed to do was to get government officials back to the negotiation table. Personally, I think that could have been done less adversarily (and without damaging the loyalty of even die-hard Penguins fans like me).<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m done blogging about these negotiations (and greedy Mr. Lemieux) for a while.<\/p>\n
Back to purchasing\u2026<\/p>\n
Response to Tuesday\u2019s article, \u201c7 Supplier Diversity Challenges, Part I,\u201d was interesting. Some people are really passionate about supplier diversity. Some people just plain don\u2019t care. And others emailed me asking what the heck supplier diversity is anyway.<\/p>\n
Supplier diversity is more clearly defined in this earlier article:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/articles\/starting-supplier-diversity-program<\/p>\n
Supplier diversity isn\u2019t practiced in all countries. It is practiced mainly in countries like the USA, where certain ethnic groups were discriminated against in the past.<\/p>\n
Based on the mixed reaction, I\u2019ve decided to postpone Part II of this series from its originally scheduled date of April 3. I\u2019m thinking more like May 15. I don\u2019t mind writing articles about a diverse array of topics, but I\u2019d rather not space ones on a topic of mixed interest together too closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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