Public Policy & Government News

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Atomics: WHAT: San Diego will once again have a rare opportunity to step inside one of the nation’s leading fusion research facilities. After drawing strong public interest in the spring, General Atomics is reopening the DIII-D National Fusion Facility for public tours this October in celebration of Nuclear Science Week. DIII-D (pronounced “Dee-three-dee”) is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility operated by General Atomics and the largest operat...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU), which represents more than 3,700 workers at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), is cautiously warning the government that as part of their decision to launch a review of the WSIB, they should be looking for ways to improve service delivery for injured workers in Ontario and not ways to cut important jobs across the province. "Yesterday, the government announced this review as part of their plan to protect ta...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AHF Optimistic About New Senate Bill to Protect 340B Program from Greedy PhRMA and Health Insurers...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KBRA assigns a long-term rating of AA to the City of Jacksonville, Florida Special Revenue and Refunding Bonds, Series 2026A, and Special Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2026B. Concurrently, KBRA affirms the AA rating on the City's outstanding Special Revenue Bonds and Special Revenue Bonds (Better Jacksonville Program). The Outlook is Stable. The rating reflects continued strong coverage of Special Revenue Bond debt service from a basket of non-ad valorem tax revenue...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--‘We the People’ Coalition Merges Faith and Politics to Engage Black Voters; L.A. Gospel Concert and Panel, Saturday, August 8, 2026...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--U.S. Special Operations Command's Special Operations Forces Acquisition, Technology and Logistics directorate has launched the Special Operations Forces Rapid Acquisition Consortium for Emerging Requirements (SOF RACER), in partnership with GovSignals. Announcing the launch, SOF AT&L described the consortium as giving non-traditional commercial companies and defense contractors a fast track to deliver technology directly to USSOCOM, with a mission to rapidly field...

IRVINGTON, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--X-Caliber Rural Capital ("XRC"), a licensed USDA OneRD lender and affiliate of X-Caliber Capital Holdings LLC ("X-Caliber"), today announced the closing of a $25 million USDA OneRD Business & Industry Guaranteed Loan, the maximum available amount under the program, to support the expansion of Plantible Foods' commercial production facility in Eldorado, Texas. Plantible Foods is a biology company producing functional ingredients derived from Lemna (water len...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medbridge, the leading digital health platform for clinician education, home exercise programs, patient-reported outcomes, and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM), today announced a strategic partnership with Patient360, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR), to deliver Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting directly from the patient-reported outcomes captured in the Medbridge platform. Prac...

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Indigo IT today announced it has been awarded a position on NASA's Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) VI Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) Category B Enterprise IT services, a Best-in-Class, multi-award vehicle that gives federal agencies a streamlined path to acquire innovative information technology products and services. The award adds SEWP VI to Indigo IT's existing portfolio of federal contract vehicles and positions the company to com...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Thomas Vyles Honored With 2026 Walter F. Snyder Environmental Health Award. The award honors pioneers whose work advances public health....