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Top 3 Reasons for HOAs to Consider AP Automation

AvidXchange: Association Management

When it comes to providing a cost-effective and viable solution for their AP, traditional bill-pay just doesn’t cut it. Cost reduction in AP must include integration with the accounting system, and most SMBs don’t always have the resources to do this work themselves.

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Hotel 911 Law Takes Effect, With Help From Associations

Associations Now

Seven years ago, a tragic incident in a hotel room mobilized the hospitality industry to change the way that its phone systems work. Making the tragedy even worse was that when Dunn’s 9-year-old daughter tried to call 911 for help, she could not get an outside line, costing emergency workers precious time in responding to the incident. “We

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Could Your Association Thrive in a Remote-First Culture?

Associations Now

In an age when centralization is running into a cost-of-living wall for many industries, embracing a remote-first culture could expand both your pool of talent and your base of operations. But what if this desire for a central location, both in terms of office and locale, comes at the cost of innovation?

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Groups Denounce Texas Bill as Discriminatory Ahead of Special Session

Associations Now

According to Texas Welcomes All, the state has already lost $66 million in revenue due to cancellation of events that were to have been held in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Arlington. billion by 2026 if the bill passes.

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Civil Rights Groups Welcome FCC Ruling On Prison Phone Fees

Associations Now

One of the most controversial practices within the prison industry just got a regulatory rebuke, and it could make the costs of phone calls a little easier to swallow for inmates and their families. “It makes me want to cry, I’m so happy,” TIFA Executive Director Jennifer Erschabek told the Houston Chronicle.

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Flight 370: Airline Group Works With UN to Boost Flight Tracking

Associations Now

Meanwhile, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the trade group that represents the airline industry, said it will come up with rules of its own over the next few months, with a task force offering ICAO guidance along the way. The search for the lost plane at one point extended from Kazakhstan to the southern Indian Ocean.

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So What’s Taking High-Speed Rail So Long?

Associations Now

Rick Scott put the kibosh on federal funding in 2011 —a controversial move at the time, considering that the offered federal funding would have covered the cost of a rail line between Tampa and Orlando, potentially easing traffic along the state’s busy Interstate 4 corridor. One industry group, the U.S. Republican Gov.