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The University of Texas at San Antonio Institute for Economic Development and Retail Strategies to Host Inaugural Texas Retail Academy

The University of Texas at San Antonio Institute for Economic Development and Retail Strategies to Host Inaugural Texas Retail Academy

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Institute for Economic Development has partnered with Retail Strategies, LLC to offer Retail Academy to six communities across Texas. The UTSA Institute for Economic Development will act as an accountability partner for the communities. Retail Academy... - December 09, 2020 - Retail Strategies

Topsarge Business Solutions Receives National Veterans Hiring Award

Topsarge Business Solutions wins 2020 Platinum HIRE Vets Medallion Award from the U.S. Department of Labor for Hiring Vets in the Workplace. - December 06, 2020 - Topsarge Business Solutions LLC

AirData and Autel Integration & Partnership to Reduce Risk on Autel EVO II Series with AirData Fleet Management; AirData Software Platform Integrates Autel EVO II Series

AirData and Autel Integration & Partnership to Reduce Risk on Autel EVO II Series with AirData Fleet Management; AirData Software Platform Integrates Autel EVO II Series

AirData UAV and Autel Enterprise Robotics are announcing a new partnership specially tailored to meet the needs of Autel Pilots across the USA: Autel EVO II users will receive a one-month free trial of AirData Enterprise fleet management software. This partnership assists Unmanned Pilots in managing flight data, maintenance scheduling, pilot currency, and livestreaming of any Autel EVO Series aircraft. - December 04, 2020 - Autel Robotics

Wyoming Highway Patrol Selects GeoComm for Long-term GIS Data Maintenance Project

GeoComm is excited to announce they have entered into a GIS data maintenance agreement with the Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP). The WHP relies on accurate and up-to-date GIS data for their Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system which is used to route resources to the location of the emergency calls... - November 25, 2020 - GeoComm

GeoComm Selected by the State of Arkansas to Complete Next Generation 9-1-1 Statewide GIS Data Gap Analysis Project

GeoComm is pleased to announce its selection by the State of Arkansas to complete a Statewide GIS Data Gap Analysis Project aimed at empowering them for a future Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) implementation. As the State of Arkansas transitions to a Next Generation 9-1-1(NG9-1-1) environment,... - November 18, 2020 - GeoComm

Black Book™ Moves ZyDocⓇ to #2 in Medical Transcription Clinical Services and #6 Transcription Software Solution Vendor of 2020

Black Book™ Moves ZyDocⓇ to #2 in Medical Transcription Clinical Services and #6 Transcription Software Solution Vendor of 2020

ZyDoc was ranked second in medical transcription services and sixth for their TrackDoc Connect enterprise cloud transcription platform in the 2020 Black Book™ Market Research vendors survey by 203 hospitals and 2,263 physician practices. - November 16, 2020 - ZyDoc

Commonwealth Credit Union Offering Enrich and iGrad Financial Wellness Platform to Members and Students

Commonwealth Credit Union Offering Enrich and iGrad Financial Wellness Platform to Members and Students

Commonwealth Credit Union has partnered with San Diego-based financial education company iGrad to make the award-winning Enrich™ financial wellness platform and the student-focused iGrad™ financial wellness platform available to its members and all students at University of Louisville, Metropolitan College and Kentucky high schools. - November 12, 2020 - iGrad

Autel Robotics and DroneSense Partner to Enable Advanced Public Safety UAS Operations

Autel Robotics and DroneSense Partner to Enable Advanced Public Safety UAS Operations

DroneSense software platform adds support for all Autel EVO series drones. - November 10, 2020 - Autel Robotics

Denver Passes Historic, Resident-Led Climate Action Funding Initiative

Denver Passes Historic, Resident-Led Climate Action Funding Initiative

This week Denver voters approved Ballot Measure 2A, pushing Denver to the forefront of the national climate movement. The tax-raising measure is the result of two years of community-led activism, a six month comprehensive stakeholder engagement process, and multiple City-Council hearings to define... - November 09, 2020 - Resilient Denver

Lauded Michigan Songwriter Paul Lubanski Announces Candidacy for Michigan Governorship in November 2022

Lauded Michigan Songwriter Paul Lubanski Announces Candidacy for Michigan Governorship in November 2022

Paul Lubanski is announcing his Independent ticket run for the governorship of Michigan. - November 06, 2020 - Paul Lubanski

Judge Elizabeth Davis Frizell, Candidate for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 3, Could be the First African American Woman to Serve on Texas’ Highest Court

If elected, Judge Frizell will be the first African American woman to serve on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Place 3, unseating Republican incumbent Judge Bert Richardson. - November 04, 2020 - Elizabeth Davis Frizell

Vascular Care Leaders Applaud Rep. Ruben Gallego for Co-Sponsoring Bill to Address Health Inequities in Peripheral Artery Disease

The Amputation Reduction and Compassion (ARC) Act aims to prevent amputations by expanding Medicare and Medicaid coverage for PAD and establishing a PAD education program. - October 28, 2020 - CardioVascular Coalition

Fuego HD Releases Beta Version of Politically Themed Endless Runner Game, The Presidential Race

Fuego HD Releases Beta Version of Politically Themed Endless Runner Game, The Presidential Race

New mobile blockchain game The Presidential Race beta version now available on Google Play and Apple TestFlight for Android and IOS devices, airdrops 5000 Ethereum tokens hoping to get people to go vote. - October 28, 2020 - Fuego HD

The City of Moreno Valley Receives Donation on Behalf of MoVaLEARNS from AAC Utility Partners

On Thursday, October 15 the MoVaLEARNS Program received a $1,500 donation from AAC Utility Partners on behalf of the City of Moreno Valley. - October 23, 2020 - AAC Utility Partners, LLC

Syntech Group to Prevent Unlocked MDCs in Law Enforcement with the GateKeeper Proximity Solution by Untethered Labs

Syntech Group, a trusted provider of IT products and services to enterprises in the US, announces a partnership with Untethered Labs to distribute the GateKeeper Proximity Authentication platform to law enforcement agencies for automating password management and locking MDCs when unattended as... - October 23, 2020 - Untethered Labs, Inc.

Citi Bike Miami Offers Free Rides on Election Day

Citi Bike Miami Offers Free Rides on Election Day

Citi Bike Miami, the official bikeshare program for the cities of Miami, Miami Beach, Surfside, and Bay Harbor Islands is offering free rides for Election Day on November 3, 2020 in partnership with Spread The Vote. - October 21, 2020 - Citi Bike Miami Operated by Deco Bike LLC

RPA to Host Virtual Trustee University with Special Guest Ron Insana

October 27 and 28 virtual event helps retirement committee members satisfy Missouri’s annual continuing education requirement. - October 21, 2020 - Retirement Plan Advisors

Community Family Life Services Launches "Starter Kit" Initiative for Formerly Incarcerated Women in the District of Columbia

Community Family Life Services Launches "Starter Kit" Initiative for Formerly Incarcerated Women in the District of Columbia

This new women’s reentry initiative provides women returning home from DOC or BOP a "Starter Kit" containing the essential tools needed to thrive. - October 17, 2020 - Community Family Life Services

Pennsylvania Regions Select GeoComm for NG9-1-1 GIS Services

GeoComm is excited to announce their partnership with the Pennsylvania Northern Tier Consortium, a group of ten counties serving a population of over 650,000 people, and the North Central Region, a group of eleven Pennsylvania counties serving over 180,000 people. This work will expand on the... - October 11, 2020 - GeoComm

Southeastern Credit Union Foundation Partners with iGrad to Offer Enrich Financial Wellness Platform

Southeastern Credit Union Foundation Partners with iGrad to Offer Enrich Financial Wellness Platform

The Southeastern Credit Union Foundation (SECUF) is launching the award-winning Enrich™ financial wellness platform to more than 24,000 employees at more than 300 credit unions in Georgia, Alabama and Florida. - October 07, 2020 - iGrad

Citizens Energy Group and AAC Utility Partners Achieve Successful Oracle C2M CIS Implementation

Congratulations to Citizens Energy Group for the successful implementation of Oracle's C2M Customer Information System in partnership with AAC Utility Partners and NavigateOne™. - October 07, 2020 - AAC Utility Partners, LLC

California Attorneys See a Spike in Asset Seizures on U.S.-Mexico Border

Civil forfeiture, also known as asset seizures, is a relatively unknown, yet highly controversial practice whereby state and government agencies confiscate cash and belongings from individuals who are merely suspected of a crime. While these cases can occur anywhere in the country, there has been a... - October 06, 2020 - San Diego Defenders

Congressman Vern Buchanan Urges CMS to Eliminate Home Health Payment System Rate Reductions for 2021

Home health leaders commend Congressman Buchanan for asking Medicare to re-evaluate assumptions used as basis for PDGM home health rate reduction. - October 01, 2020 - Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare

STL Acquires Wendelin Consulting Group, Inc., an Illinois-based Technology Consulting Company

STL Acquires Wendelin Consulting Group, Inc., an Illinois-based Technology Consulting Company

STL announced today that it has agreed to acquire Wendelin Consulting Group, Inc. The acquisition brings STL additional professional and technical consulting capabilities to complement and expand its existing Managed IT services throughout the Midwest. Headquartered in Pekin, Illinois, Wendelin... - October 01, 2020 - STL

With COVID-19 Spiking Again, Disinfect Boston Announces 24/7 Service for Its Dry FDA/CDC Approved Electrostatic Disinfection Services Combating Contamination & Exposure

With COVID-19 Spiking Again, Disinfect Boston Announces 24/7 Service for Its Dry FDA/CDC Approved Electrostatic Disinfection Services Combating Contamination & Exposure

Disinfect Boston is now offering 24/7 Scheduled & Emergency Electrostatic Disinfecting Services. As a Locally Owned, Operated, Licensed, and Insured Disinfection Company providing Certificates of Disinfection to Businesses & Homeowners. Now Offering to Disinfect your Home and/or Business 24/7 within 90 minutes or less from your Call. No more waiting and you can reenter your Home or Business in 30-45 minutes. - September 29, 2020 - Disinfect Boston LLC

Statement by Missin Peace in Response to Grand Jury Verdict in the Breonna Taylor Case

Missin Peace released the following statement regarding the Kentucky Attorney General’s decision to indict one police officer connected with the murder of Breonna Taylor: "With heavy sorrow, we extend our hearts to Breonna Taylor’s family and the unsettling number of people still... - September 25, 2020 - Missin Peace

South Florida-Born 1000 Mermaids Artificial Reef Project Triples in Size Through Second Deployment in Palm Beach County

South Florida-Born 1000 Mermaids Artificial Reef Project Triples in Size Through Second Deployment in Palm Beach County

The 1000 Mermaids Project is a public art installation created in conjunction with Reef Cells that will serve as an underwater eco-friendly destination for tourism off of South Florida’s Coastlines. - September 24, 2020 - Ocean Rescue Alliance

STEM Entrepreneur Dr. Malcolm Adams Wars Against SocioEconomic Inequality

STEM entrepreneur Dr. Malcolm Adams is changing lives for minorities by waging war on socioeconomic inequality – even to the point of running for election for a seat in the GA State House of Representatives. He is an economist, educator, and entrepreneur who is committed to economic... - September 18, 2020 - Dr. Malcolm Adams

Autel Enterprise is Announces Its Partnership with FoxFury Lighting

Autel Enterprise is Announces Its Partnership with FoxFury Lighting

System-Specific lighting Authorized for the Autel EVO II Series Aircraft - September 17, 2020 - Autel Robotics

Manimas Sees a White Elephant in the 2020 Election

Manimas Sees a White Elephant in the 2020 Election

John Manimas, the only presidential candidate who seriously recommends mandatory voting, predicts that if Trump is re-elected, the Republican Party will use the 25th Amendment to remove him from office and make Mike Pence the President in order to continue execution of a right-wing plan to change the United States of America into the Confederate States of America. - September 15, 2020 - John Manimas Campaign

California Coast Credit Union Partners with iGrad to Offer Enrich Financial Wellness Platform

California Coast Credit Union Partners with iGrad to Offer Enrich Financial Wellness Platform

California Coast Credit Union has partnered with San Diego-based financial education company iGrad to make the award-winning Enrich™ financial wellness platform available to its nearly 200,000 members. Enrich is used by more than 20,000 employers and more than 300 financial institutions... - September 14, 2020 - iGrad

World Rivers Day 2020 Set for September 27

World Rivers Day 2020, set for September 27, commemorates the many values of rivers and encourages river stewardship and conservation around the globe. This massive worldwide event involving up to 100 countries has its roots in British Columbia Rivers Day which celebrates its 40th anniversary. - September 14, 2020 - World Rivers Day

iGrad Partners with Columbia University to Combat Student Loan Crisis with AI-Powered Student Financial Wellness Platform

iGrad Partners with Columbia University to Combat Student Loan Crisis with AI-Powered Student Financial Wellness Platform

Leading financial wellness company iGrad has partnered with Columbia University to provide a customized, interactive online and mobile financial wellness platform to the private Ivy League university’s students. - September 12, 2020 - iGrad

Elaine Mokwunye Runs for Lauderdale County Commission District 2

Elaine Mokwunye Runs for Lauderdale County Commission District 2

Elaine Mokwunye is running for a seat on the Lauderdale County Commission (District 2) in Alabama. She intends to be active, available and accountable to the Lauderdale County community. Elect Elaine Mokwunye for Lauderdale County Commissioner (District 2). Vote November 3, 2020. - September 10, 2020 - Elaine’s Campaign

One Click Contact Tracing: GroundLevel Insights Releases Free Tool for Restaurants & Retailers to Collect Customer Data for Contact Tracing

Many small businesses across Canada are struggling to collect and maintain the required contact tracing data to meet local government regulations. GroundLevel Insights has developed a simple QR-based tool to ease the burden on these businesses and to do it for free. - September 09, 2020 - GroundLevel Insights Inc.

Release of Auto Counter for COVID-19 - Smart Safety in Less Numbers

Release of Auto Counter for COVID-19 - Smart Safety in Less Numbers

Alternate E Source has the latest Smart Sensor solution that auto counts people to comply with social distancing and minimum persons requirements. The KMS-TI smart thermal sensor helps us meet the challenges of auto tracking passage ways, hallways, corridors and presence counting, alerting when too many persons are in a room or too close together. - September 05, 2020 - Alternate E Source

FireFlex Yoga’s Train the Trainer Workshop: October 9 at Santa Clara City Fire Training Center

FireFlex Yoga’s Train the Trainer Workshop: October 9 at Santa Clara City Fire Training Center

Firefighters Are Invited to Three-Day Training to Deliver Wellness, Mitigate Injury, Increase Resilience - September 05, 2020 - FireFlex Yoga

Autel Enterprise is Announcing Its Made in USA EVO II Dual Bundles

Autel Enterprise is Announcing Its Made in USA EVO II Dual Bundles

Under the Autel Enterprise label, Autel Robotics offers end-users the opportunity to use aircraft manufactured in the USA with foreign and domestic parts and labor. - September 03, 2020 - Autel Robotics

Gebhart Campaign Supports Teachers with First FDA Approved Clear Masks

Gebhart Campaign Supports Teachers with First FDA Approved Clear Masks

Endorsed Democratic candidate for Ward 9 of the Warwick City Council, Vinny Gebhart, has donated clear face masks to the Warwick Teachers Union to support teachers in the classroom during COVID-19. - September 03, 2020 - Gebhart For Warwick

E.J. Ward Inc. Announces New Organizational Structure with the Formation of Two New Operating Business Groups

E.J. Ward Inc. Announces New Organizational Structure with the Formation of Two New Operating Business Groups

A new organizational structure within E.J. Ward Inc. provides increased product value offering for customers. - September 02, 2020 - E.J. Ward, Inc.

Medcom Benefit Solutions Integrates Enrich Financial Wellness Platform Into Consumer-Driven Health Plan Portfolio

Medcom Benefit Solutions Integrates Enrich Financial Wellness Platform Into Consumer-Driven Health Plan Portfolio

Medcom Benefit Solutions is offering Enrich Financial Wellness to help participants better understand consumer-driven health plans, including Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA), while improving overall financial health. - September 01, 2020 - iGrad

Job Seekers Can Earn Work Experience While Giving Back to Their Community Through the Monterey HELP Program

The Monterey County Workforce Development Board has developed several initiatives in order to support both employers and job seekers as we work together to overcome obstacles related to the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected us all. The Monterey HELP program provides workers impacted by COVID-19... - August 30, 2020 - Monterey County Workforce Development Board

Local Child Welfare Leader Champions Foster Kids with Lived Experience

Local Child Welfare Leader Champions Foster Kids with Lived Experience

Michelle Canaday, Circuit Director for the 15th Judicial District of the Florida Guardian ad Litem Program, is the perfect example of what happens when someone speaks words of life and encouragement to a child. Canaday, who is the product of the Wisconsin foster care system, remembers a childhood... - August 28, 2020 - Speak Up for Kids

Manimas Contends States Can Block Elector Votes for Impeached Trump

Manimas Contends States Can Block Elector Votes for Impeached Trump

Shows how any state can pass a law that forbids presidential electors to vote for Donald Trump because he has been impeached, based on Supreme Court decision in Chiafalo v. Washington, #19-465, July 6, 2020. The Supreme Court voted 9-0 that state legislatures have absolute control over who their presidential electors can vote for and cannot vote for. - August 26, 2020 - John Manimas Campaign

Fecteau Awarded the Meritorious Service Medal

Fecteau Awarded the Meritorious Service Medal

U.S. Army Major Matthew J. Fecteau was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal on August 11, 2020 while serving with the U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command in the Greater Middle East. According to Army Regulation, the Meritorious Service Medal is “awarded to any Service member of... - August 26, 2020 - Matt Fecteau for Congress

ISI and FEMCIC Partner to Envision a More Sustainable and Resilient Mexico

ISI and FEMCIC Partner to Envision a More Sustainable and Resilient Mexico

Partnering together, ISI and FEMCIC will bring the Envision framework and rating system to Mexico to help public and private organizations design and build more sustainable and resilient civil infrastructure. That means better roads, bridges, dams, parks, data centers, airport runaways and taxiways, and water- and wastewater-treatment plants. That also means designing and building infrastructure that protects the environment, combats climate change, boosts the economy, and enhances human health. - August 21, 2020 - ISI

Credit Union 1 Partners with iGrad to Offer Enrich Financial Wellness Platform

Credit Union 1 Partners with iGrad to Offer Enrich Financial Wellness Platform

Credit Union 1 launches the Enrich financial wellness platform to its credit union members, offering them a hyper-personalized interactive educational experience. - August 20, 2020 - iGrad

Alignment Simple Solutions Expands GSA Product Pricing to NGO and All Fleet Operators

Alignment Simple Solutions Expands GSA Product Pricing to NGO and All Fleet Operators

Alignment Simple Solutions, the leader in portable wheel alignment solutions, is expanding their government products and pricing to all fleet owners, local and state government entities. - August 20, 2020 - QuickTrick - Alignment Simple Solutions

Manimas Shouts Out "Make Voting Viral"

Manimas Shouts Out "Make Voting Viral"

A brief explanation of how simply having 10% of the electorate, or one fourth of habitual non-voters -- about 23 million voters, register to vote as no-party voters would accomplish a "revolution by vote" that would stop the destructive two-party seesaw. John Manimas, presidential candidate stated: "They can vote however they wish, but just registering as a no-party voter would throw the red/blue seesaw into a spin." - August 19, 2020 - John Manimas Campaign

TestPros Awarded $44 Million BPA for IT IV&V Support Services for Nuclear Regulatory Commission

TestPros Awarded $44 Million BPA for IT IV&V Support Services for Nuclear Regulatory Commission

TestPros has been competitively awarded one of two GSA Federal Supply Schedule Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) to provide a broad range of Independent Verification and Validation support services to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The maximum value of the BPAs, collectively, is $44... - August 18, 2020 - TestPros, Inc.

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