Lore McManus Solo, principal and vice president of public relations at Strategic America Inc., received a national APEX Award of Excellence for a blog post that appeared on the company’s blog, and appeared later in the Business Record, the Bulldog Reporter and The Grossman Group’s blog. “The New Rude” discusses how professional courtesy has been stretched thin, according to a news release. The APEX Awards for Publication Excellence are given annually for best practices in print, Web and publications to professional communicators.