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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 ...

In the past decade or so, laptops have gotten slimmer and lighter, all the while losing ports left and right. If you’re missing some of the versatility laptops used to have, you probably need a hub ...

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 female and ...

Top House and Senate lawmakers emerged divided along party lines after a private briefing with the military official who oversaw September’s attack on an alleged drug vessel that included a so-called ...

Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock has sharply curtailed a 30-year-old program designed to give women- and minority-owned businesses a boost when they compete for state contracts, narrowing it instead ...

The Texas Legislature created the Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program in 1995 to give the "economically disadvantaged" a boost in procuring state contracts. To qualify, a business must ...

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Hudson Yards is a 28-acre (11 ha) real estate development in the Chelsea and Hudson Yards neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. The architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox designed the master plan ...