Birmingham’s regional water board will pay a national firm more than $90,000 to understand why the utility continues to rank near the bottom in customer satisfaction. Central Alabama Water will spend ...

In the United States, we ask state and local governments to do a great deal with limited resources. Every budget cycle requires trade-offs among competing priorities, often under intense time pressure ...

The population aged 65 and older is emerging as a major customer group in the consumer market. As the aging population grows, spending is increasing not only in essential sectors like hospitals and ...

With gas prices up more than $1 a gallon from last year’s average, Americans are turning to buy-now-pay-later at the pump. That’s according to new data from Block XYZ, which announced Tuesday the ...

Broadcom (AVGO +3.78%) may be the best example of the staggering demand for custom AI chip solutions, and it may also be Nvidia's biggest competition. In Broadcom's fiscal second quarter of 2026 (the ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Corona's parent company says its sales have fallen, in part because Hispanic customers aren't buying ...

Astronomers have spent years searching for a possible hidden giant planet far beyond Neptune. Unusual orbits among distant Kuiper Belt objects have fueled the Planet Nine theory, but recent ...

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