Festive opening showcases St. Louis, but developments back in D.C. have executives worried ASt. Louis—Organizers welcomed the roughly 5,000 attendees to ASAE’s annual conference here Saturday night with a concert extravaganza held directly under the city’s signature Gateway Arch, capped off by blazing fireworks over the adjacent Mississippi River. But the morning after the festivities, ASAE CEO John Graham, addressing a ballroom full of executives and vendors at the conference’s opening session, spoke of several challenges facing the association community, including the recent “turmoil in Washington” stemming from the debt ceiling crisis. The concern, Graham said, is… Read More