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Re: COMMON Conference locations.

You, my good man, don't know a good airport when you see it! We go over there 40 minutes before flight time and walk right up. We are two hops from virtually anyplace in the country and are served by all the major airlines and several others. We have shuttle service from the airport to downtown and hotel shuttles and taxi's too. These are all things that need to be reviewed at any city before they are chosen! 

Mind you I'm not plugging GR as a site for COMMON (yet)
And if you think May takes the weather out of play in Michigan, you really are nuts! Heck it's snowed here on Memorial day! 

 - Larry

pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Although they are fine towns, the problem with Milwaukee and Grand Rapids is primarily the weather. Grand Rapids is further hindered by its airport. I have said many times to many board members that the cities we should use are Atlanta, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Anaheim. Easy to get to, they are in the southern part of the US, and the facilities (and any unions) are easy to deal with.
I also think that COMMON should cut back to one conference per year, and hold it in May. If we want to use more northern cities, May would take the weather out of the equation.
As for blandness, who cares? Bosses are paying for attendees to be educated, not entertained.

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