The Nashville Metro Council voted overwhelmingly to approve financing for the construction of the new Music City Center after a long and, at times, contentious debate. The approval of the new convention center also means that plans will go forward...

The proposed Marriott Marquis convention center hotel in Washington has been delayed in the courts by a spate of lawsuits. Months after one of the losing developers, JBG Properties Inc., filed a suit against the Washington Convention and Sports...

Voters in Massachusetts took to the polls on Tuesday for a special Massachusetts Senate election that resulted in Republican Scott Brown’s upset victory over Democratic candidate Martha Coakley. One of the biggest issues of the campaign for the...

Floyd Pennington asks an interesting question in this post: Major Challenges that Confront Medical Education (including CME) over the Next Decade (and links to a really interesting post on challenges in medical education generally). His question...

The National Commission for Certification of CME Professionals (NC-CME) recently named Dennis K. Wentz, MD, FACPE, CCMEP, to the position of president-elect; he will serve as president from 2011-2012. Wentz, who is principal and co-founder of...

CME funding is decreasing; revenue from exhibits is decreasing even more. General, unrestricted support of an organization no longer exists for most medical societies, and there is more competition for sponsorship dollars from state organizations...

It took five years and more than $1.5 billion to build the Burj Dubai which, at 2,717 feet, becomes the world’s tallest tower. And its long-awaited opening earlier this month came with a surprise—the renaming of the tower as the Burj Khalifa, in...

Officials at the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which runs Chicago’s McCormick Place, are spearheading an effort to introduce a bill in the Illinois General Assembly to reform labor rules and contractor practices at the convention...