Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski used her chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to defend the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program, which she and a small bipartisan group of ...

For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more common. Failure is rarer than it once was. At the same time, student achievement, as ...

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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has issued formal guidance to SBA program officials reiterating, in alignment with policy changes implemented by Administrator Kelly Loeffler last year, ...

Vibe coding trades creativity for coordination and oversight. Performance and UI issues still demand human judgment. AI shines when developers relentlessly lead, test, and correct. Over all my years ...

Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is reviewing the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Program, arguing that the long-running initiative has strayed from ...

San Francisco’s school district is expanding a tutoring program that more than doubled students’ reading proficiency rates last year, a bright spot in the district’s push to raise literacy scores ...

Secretary of War Hegseth announced that his department is "taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government—the 8(a) program." (Source: X @SecWar) On January 16, 2026, ...

Maryland’s Easy Enrollment program, created in 2019, is officially available for 2026, allowing uninsured residents to check a box on their state tax returns to determine their eligibility for ...