by Athan Yanos | Apr 17, 2025 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – As Easter Sunday approaches, chocolate businesses around the country have been preparing for what is typically one of the highest chocolate consumption periods of the year. Last year alone, Americans spent an estimated $3.1 billion on Easter chocolate. ...
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by Leonardo Pini | Apr 15, 2025 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Christina Callahan served sparkling Portuguese rose wine imported by the small District of Columbia business, The Wine Concierge, where she is chief sommelier. However, she suggested that for small businesses that rely on imports from other...
by Kelly Adkins | Nov 14, 2023 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – As artificial intelligence spreads into agriculture, senators stressed that all farms need broadband access in order to take advantage of all the ways AI can boost production. “I can’t allow the opportunity to pass without reminding everyone that...
by Kelly Adkins | Nov 9, 2023 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON — Artificial intelligence (AI) experts on Wednesday urged Congress to jump into the intimidating world of regulating AI and avoid some of the pitfalls of the past, when the government failed to rein in transformative technology. On the morning of November...
by Kelly Adkins | Nov 3, 2023 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Experts and former employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission criticized its current leadership’s rule-making at a House Financial Services committee hearing Thursday. The hearing was called to discuss the “rule-making agenda,” and its impact on...
by Kelly Adkins | Nov 1, 2023 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Nonprofit financial institutions that fund underserved communities urged Congress not to put this work on the backburner after a House proposal to slash the budget for these institutions by 14%. The wealth gap has persisted in recent years. Families of...
