As the year comes to a close, Jessica Scanlon, founder of Hot Dog Marketing, can already cross one item off of her 2026 to-do list: renewing her Historically Underutilized Business program status.

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...

Apple is working on a smart home hub that will rely heavily on the more capable version of Siri that's coming next year. We've heard quite a bit about the hub over the last two years, but a recent iOS ...

Macworld reports that leaked internal code reveals Apple’s mystery smart home accessory codenamed ‘J229’, expected to launch in spring 2026. The device appears to be a security camera with multiple ...

On Wednesday morning at an elementary campus in the foothills of the Hill Country, environmental science teacher Isaac Esquivel tackled the subject of invasive species with a class of fifth graders.

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Julie Irvin Hartman started her Tuesday with welcome, but confusing news. The application she had submitted weeks ago to renew her business’s certification as a Historically Underutilized Business had ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) – The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts overhauled a program designed to provide more exposure to historically underutilized businesses in the state procurement process by removing ...

Texas has abruptly rewritten the rules of its state contracting system, stripping women and minority-owned businesses of a long-standing support program and reshaping it entirely around disabled ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas’ interim Comptroller Kelly Hancock said he believed the original statute that created the Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program was unconstitutional and ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Texas Comptroller’s Office is narrowing eligibility for the state’s Historically Underutilized Business program, known as HUB, a move that has caused confusion and concern ...