These 3 States Might End Property Taxes: What Homeowners Should Know
Rising home values—up 45‑55% since 2019—have intensified pressure on property‑tax systems in several states. Florida, Indiana and Texas are each considering measures that would largely eliminate local property taxes, replacing the lost revenue with higher sales taxes, new user fees, or expanded service taxes. Florida’s HJR 203 would phase out non‑school levies over a decade, Indiana’s HB 1288 would tax most services, and Texas plans to use budget surpluses to wipe out school property taxes. Critics warn these shifts could create new regressive burdens and threaten long‑term funding for schools and local services.
Collaboration Key to Enhancing Intermodal Experience for Passengers
SITA’s new white paper argues that collaboration and data sharing among airports, airlines, rail, maritime and city transport authorities is essential to eliminate breakdowns at intermodal transfer points. It highlights that fragmented handovers cause passenger stress, operational blind spots and...
Shake Content’s Dani Markovits: Founders Who Ignore LinkedIn Are Ceding Their Best Acquisition Channel
Shake Content’s new chief commercial officer, former LinkedIn creator‑team leader Dani Markovits, warns that B2B founders who ignore LinkedIn are forfeiting their most effective acquisition channel. He argues that founder‑led posts generate higher trust and reach than corporate pages, especially...
Krystal Promotes COO From Parent Company
Restaurant operator Amanda Hyde has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Krystal, moving up from her role as Senior Vice President of Operations at parent company SPB Hospitality. Hyde brings more than two decades of multi‑unit restaurant leadership, previously...
Gavin & Stacey Legend Finally Responds to Celebrity Traitors Rumours
Ruth Jones, known for Gavin & Stacey, has publicly rejected an invitation to appear on the second season of BBC’s Celebrity Traitors, citing the physical demands of swimming in lakes and wearing wetsuits. The decision comes amid a flurry of...
College’s New Green Skills Innovation Centre Will Inspire Employers to Raise Sustainable Technology Expertise
Wiltshire College & University Centre opened a £500,000 Green Skills Innovation Centre in Chippenham, backed by the Shared Prosperity Fund and Good Energy. The facility features teaching bays for solar PV, heat pumps, battery storage and smart‑home systems, plus an...
Norwegian Photoncycle Bags €15M Series A to Launch Seasonal Solar Storage in the Netherlands
Oslo‑based Photoncycle raised €15 million in a Series A round led by NordicNinja and Voima Ventures to commercialize its solid‑state hydrogen storage system. The technology stores excess summer solar power as hydrogen for winter use, targeting Dutch and Danish households as net‑metering...
What It Really Means: Balancing Demand and Supply
Balancing demand and supply is the cornerstone of effective supply‑chain planning, ensuring forecasts align with production capacity and inventory. When gaps arise, firms resort to costly “heroics” such as overtime, expedited freight, or excess stock, eroding margins. The article outlines...
Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Series: In-Vivo Assessment of Novel Cardiac Valve Prostheses
On March 12, 2026, TCTMD’s Heart Valve Matters podcast featured Ami Bhatt and John Carney discussing the role of in‑vivo assessments in shaping next‑generation cardiac valve prostheses for children with congenital heart disease. The hosts highlighted how animal studies and...
As War Rages, Multimodal Demand Surges on Asia-Europe Landbridge
Major ocean carriers are rerouting Gulf‑bound cargo to land‑based corridors after the Strait of Hormuz was effectively closed by the ongoing war. Maersk now ships to Salalah, Khor Fakkan and Jeddah, then secures trucking capacity to move goods into the Persian...
Mead Lumber Completes Brand Unification With Final Renaming of Former Knecht Home Center
Mead Lumber will finalize its brand unification on March 13, 2026, by renaming its former Knecht Home Center in Cañon City, Colorado to Mead Lumber. This marks the completion of a rollout that began in October 2025 and now brings...
Campaigners Claim NHS Palantir System Could Be Accessed by Police and Immigration
Campaigners, including Medact and Amnesty International, warn that the NHS's £330 million Palantir Federated Data Platform (FDP) could allow police and immigration officials to access confidential patient records. Palantir denies any legal ability to share data with government departments, stating the...
BIScience Adds Linear TV to Its AdClarity Analysis Platform
BIScience has launched the TV Intelligence Suite, extending its AdClarity platform to include U.S. linear TV data. The upgrade lets customers monitor more than $174 billion in digital ad spend and $51 billion in linear TV spend from a single interface. Coverage...
Akurateco Payment Hub Partners with Kushki to Expand PSP Access Across Latin America
Payment infrastructure provider Akurateco announced a strategic partnership with Latin American payments firm Kushki to broaden PSP connectivity across the region. The deal integrates Kushki’s suite of local payment rails into Akurateco’s Payment Hub, giving merchants, PSPs and fintechs a...
Man Jailed for Running Illegal Sale-and-Rent-Back Scheme Targeting Struggling Homeowners
Rajinder Gill was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for operating an unauthorised sale‑and‑rent‑back scheme that defrauded vulnerable homeowners of £925,233. The scheme, run through Secure Property Consultants Ltd, forced owners to sell below market value, pay...
Concept Capital Group Update: Administrators Appointed
On 9 March 2026 the High Court appointed BTG as administrators of Concept Capital Group (CCG) after an application filed in February. The FCA had previously frozen roughly £23 million of CCG assets and launched High Court proceedings in July 2025 over an alleged...
Second Charge Mortgage Firms Told to Raise Standards for Consumers
The FCA has warned second‑charge mortgage lenders and brokers to raise standards after a review uncovered weak affordability checks, inappropriate debt‑consolidation advice, poor record‑keeping and opaque fees. The sector, which serves borrowers with high debt and low resilience, accounts for...
New York Needs More Time to Meet Climate Goals, Gov. Hochul Says
New York Governor Kathy Hochul warned that the state’s 2030 climate targets – 70% renewable electricity and a 40% emissions cut – are financially untenable without a policy reset. She highlighted a $4,100 annual cost increase for vulnerable two‑car, heating‑oil...
Fifth Circuit Emphasizes Need for Proof of Trade Secrets’ Economic Value and Effort Required to Create Compilation
The Fifth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for defendants in A+PEL’s trade‑secret lawsuit, finding the nonprofit’s Mentor Teacher training, client list, and member database were not protectable under the DTSA or Louisiana’s trade‑secret statute. The court highlighted A+PEL’s failure to maintain...
Sports Stars Among Nominees for PTS Board of Directors
The Ministry of Culture released a second list of nominees for the eighth board of Taiwan’s publicly funded broadcaster, Public Television Service (PTS). The slate includes former baseball star Peng Cheng‑min and gymnast Lee Chih‑kai alongside leaders from online education,...
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UL Solutions granted its first UL 3300 safety certification to Simbe’s Tally autonomous shelf‑scanning robot. The certification, covering fire, electric‑shock and autonomous mobility hazards, confirms Tally can operate safely in busy public retail aisles. Simbe becomes the inaugural company to receive...
Manz Asia and Epson Form Strategic Partnership to Advance Inkjet Technology for Semiconductor Manufacturing
Manz Asia and Seiko Epson have formed a strategic partnership to develop Lab‑to‑Fab inkjet equipment for semiconductor manufacturing. The collaboration merges Epson’s high‑precision printhead technology with Manz’s equipment engineering and intelligent software, creating a product line that covers R&D, pilot,...
Why Dove Turned Reddit Product Feedback Into a Real-World Campaign
Dove turned the first 50 Reddit reviews of its Intensive Repair 10‑in‑1 Serum Mask into the "r/eal reviews" campaign, publishing the comments across digital and in‑person channels. The brand embraced both praise and criticism to highlight its confidence in the...
Waberer’s Rail Freight Subsidiary Wins Major Contract with BMW
PSP Rail, the rail freight arm of Hungary’s Waberer’s International, has landed a long‑term contract with BMW to move finished vehicles from the automaker’s Debrecen plant to European seaports for export. The agreement, running through 2031, will initially replace a...
VIDEO: MacGregor Launches New Balanced Lashing System for Containerships
MacGregor has launched a Balanced Lashing System that equalises forces across a containership’s lashings, addressing the chronic issue of upper‑lashings bearing most of the load. By incorporating proven elastic elements, the system can boost deck payloads by up to 10%...
Gulf Coast Facing ‘Gas Storage Problem’ as LNG Exports Grow
U.S. natural‑gas storage capacity has remained essentially flat since 2012, while overall demand – driven by domestic consumption and rapidly expanding LNG exports – is accelerating. The Gulf Coast, home to the majority of export terminals, is now confronting a...
HyperLight Introduces 145 GHz Reference Modulators to Enable 448Gbps per Lane Datacom and 260GBaud Telecom Development
HyperLight Corp unveiled a 145 GHz packaged intensity modulator that delivers over 145 GHz electro‑optical bandwidth, enabling 448 Gbps per‑lane IMDD and 260 GBaud coherent links. The device is offered in O‑, C‑, L‑band configurations with a 1 µm pre‑order option, featuring a compact 0.8 mm...
MetroLink Signs for 49,500 Sq Ft Offices at Dublin’s Coopers Cross
MetroLink has signed a lease for 49,500 sq ft of Grade‑A office space at Kennedy Wilson’s Coopers Cross campus in Dublin’s north docklands. The mixed‑use development totals 381,000 sq ft, features an intelligent building system, and boasts LEED, WELL and BREEAM Platinum certifications along with...
Soma Gold Gets First Shipment From Diamantina Mine in Colombia
Soma Gold has received its first shipment of mineralised rock from the newly formalised Diamantina Mine, marking the culmination of over five years of regulatory work. The mine is authorised to produce up to 40 tonnes per day and is...
BridgeBio Builds Case for Early 2027 Launch of Dystrophy Drug
BridgeBio Pharma reported that its small‑molecule candidate BBP‑418 produced a 1.8‑fold increase in the α‑dystroglycan biomarker in a Phase 3 FORTIFY trial for limb‑girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I/R9, with effects sustained through 12 months. The trial enrolled 81 patients and also showed...
New Routes Boosting Passenger Traffic in Memphis
Memphis International Airport announced four new nonstop passenger flights—Frontier to Las Vegas and Phoenix, Breeze to San Antonio, and Southwest to Austin—expanding its route network for 2024. The airport added 11 new destinations in 2025, its highest post‑Delta hub growth, and served...
IHG Names Michael Hoe-Knudsen Managing Director for MLAC Region
IHG Hotels & Resorts appointed Michael Hoe‑Knudsen as managing director for Mexico, Latin America & the Caribbean, succeeding retiring leader Jorge Apaez. Hoe‑Knudsen brings three decades of global hospitality experience, most recently overseeing 120 managed hotels and 45 openings in...
Zelle Ventures Into Charitable Disbursements with Bank of America
Zelle has partnered with Bank of America to launch a charitable‑disbursement service for donor‑advised funds, replacing slow ACH and check processes with instant transfers. The proof‑of‑concept uses BofA’s Charitable Gift Fund, which last year distributed over $1.3 billion through more than...
Offscript Media Launches 3BlackDot Gaming Media Platform
Offscript Worldwide, the parent company behind the Revolt media property, announced the launch of 3BlackDot, a consumer‑facing gaming media platform. The debut featured its flagship show, 3BD Weekly, streamed live from SXSW. 3BlackDot is positioned as a centralized hub that...
Iran War, SaaS-Pocalypse Loom Over Already-Sluggish Sports Deals
M&A activity in the United States has slumped, with announced mergers dropping 23% to 1,795 by March 9, while sports and e‑sports deals fell to just five this year versus 57 in 2025. The downturn is driven by the February “SaaS‑pocalypse,”...
Chili Shack Promotes Elizabeth Orona to COO
Chili Shack, the Denver‑based fast‑casual chain, has promoted Elizabeth Orona from general manager to chief operating officer. Orona will steer the brand’s national franchise rollout, targeting up to 100 new locations over the next several years. The company currently runs...
New Research: Why All-Inclusive Travel Is Having a Moment
New Skift research, commissioned by Hyatt Inclusive Collection, shows all‑inclusive vacations are gaining broad appeal. 87% of U.S. and Canadian consumers have stayed at or considered an all‑inclusive resort, with 84% of prior guests likely to return. Younger travelers drive...
Can Hydropower Ride the Wave of the Energy Boom?
Hydropower, once the leading U.S. renewable source, posted only a 1.7% increase in generation last year, keeping its share at about 5.6% of electricity. Most of the 79,892 MW capacity is tied to dams over 50 years old, with the last major...
Coinbase’s Oscars Ad Turns a Video Game NPC Into a Financial Rebel
Coinbase debuted a new Oscar‑time commercial titled “Your Way Out,” featuring a video‑game non‑playable character who rebels against his scripted existence. The ad, created by Isle of Any and directed by Oscar Hudson, positions the crypto platform as a pathway...
Innovaccer, Databricks Partner to Operationalize Healthcare AI
Innovaccer announced its Gravity platform has earned Built on Validated Partner status with Databricks, confirming production use of the lakehouse stack. The partnership integrates Delta Lake, Databricks SQL, and Managed MLflow into Gravity’s AI infrastructure, streamlining data transformation and model...
TikTok Radio Sets Relaunch on iHeartMedia App and 28 U.S. Stations After Leaving SiriusXM
TikTok Radio is relaunching on March 13 via the iHeartRadio app and on 28 iHeartMedia broadcast stations after ending its four‑year SiriusXM partnership. The new channel blends music, creator‑led conversation, and signature segments such as ‘Behind‑the‑Charts’ and ‘Hacks on the :20s.’...
The Prior Auth Panic: WEDI Survey Reveals Providers Are Stalling as the CMS API Deadline Looms
The CMS Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Final Rule requires all health‑care entities to deploy specific prior‑auth APIs by January 1, 2027. A February 2026 WEDI survey shows payers have largely caught up, with only 10% still idle, down from 43% a...
US Transit Fleets Have Bought Over 8,000 Zero-Emission Buses
U.S. public‑transit agencies have collectively funded, ordered, or deployed 8,116 full‑size zero‑emission buses as of July 2025, marking a 16% year‑over‑year increase. Small‑vehicle zero‑emission buses added another 1,400 units, growing 20% in the same period. California remains the clear leader, operating...
Zelle and BofA Team up and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 3/12/26
Zelle has partnered with Bank of America to route charitable disbursements from donor‑advised funds through its network, delivering near‑real‑time grant payments to nonprofits. ACI Worldwide reports only 26% of bill‑pay platforms consider themselves future‑ready, though 80% view the technology as...
The Relationship Among Oil Prices, Food Costs, and Consumer Inflation
U.S. military actions in the Middle East have driven Brent crude sharply higher, reviving scrutiny of oil’s influence on broader price levels. Historical FRED data reveal that oil price movements have consistently co‑moved with the Global Food Price Index and...
Why Platform Consolidation Pays Off
Manufacturers increasingly recognize that juggling multiple best‑of‑breed automation platforms drives hidden costs far beyond initial equipment spend. Training a single technician on five disparate systems can exceed $50,000, inflating a plant’s training budget to a million dollars. Consolidating onto a...
Lantern CFO Greg Chisholm Talks Health Care, AI and Capital Allocation
Lantern appointed Greg Chisholm as CFO, leveraging experience from HelloFresh, Wayfair, and McKinsey. He is focused on mapping the health‑care business’s complexity and shaping capital‑allocation decisions as the company scales at roughly 50% annual growth. Chisholm points to structural cost...
China’s All-Nuke Sub Push May Trigger an Undersea Arms Race
U.S. Navy intelligence chief Rear Admiral Mike Brookes told Congress that China is transitioning from a diesel‑electric‑heavy submarine force to an all‑nuclear fleet, expanding shipyard capacity and developing a smaller Type 041 "Zhou‑class" attack sub. The plan includes next‑generation Type 095 SSGNs...
Bangladesh Bank Governor Assures Garment Exporters of Timely Cash Incentive Payments
Bangladesh Bank Governor Md Mostaqur Rahman told BGMEA leaders that pending export cash‑incentive payments will be processed within the same month, aiming to ease manufacturers’ liquidity crunch. The guarantee comes as garment factories face cash shortages from frozen deposits at...
Cargo Diversions, Escalating Price War Threaten Latin American LNG Supply
The ongoing Middle East conflict is forcing LNG vessels originally slated for Latin America to reroute to higher‑paying markets in Europe and Asia. Spot prices at key Latin American terminals have risen 15‑20% month‑over‑month, yet remain below the premiums offered...