Month: August 2026

Almost nothing at WorkTexas costs a participant money, which raises the obvious question: who’s paying? The answer, Mike Feinberg says, is a patchwork he’s spent years learning to navigate on his students’ behalf, one grant program and one workforce board at a time. Mike Feinberg on the Maze of Workforce Funding “Basically, in this country,…

Federal agencies lost far more employees than they hired last year, and the gap is reshaping who the Department of Defense turns to for technical work. Margarita Howard founded HX5 in 2004 with a focus on the kind of embedded, cleared technical services that outlast any single administration’s staffing plans, and that focus now looks…

Why Homeowners Are Paying Closer Attention to Pest Control This Year Across Utah, homeowners are rethinking how they protect their properties from seasonal invaders, and the shift has put a new spotlight on Mira Home, whose founder-driven approach to the business was recently profiled for its unusual focus on wellness rather than just extermination. The…

New rules pushing wealth managers to disclose fee structures and explain AI-driven investment recommendations are reshaping client expectations across the industry. Yet Michael Gold, founder of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, contends that these measures treat symptoms rather than the underlying cause. Gold has built his firm’s reputation over 25 years around a different…

Modern children’s books do more than entertain, and Greg Soros author knows that as well as anyone writing in the genre today. His stories often carry social-emotional lessons, but he is careful that those lessons never announce themselves on the page. “The best approach doesn’t feel didactic,” Soros has said of his own process, and…

Financial advisors are getting older, and a lot of them are heading for the door. Close to half of all financial advisors plan to retire by 2035, according to industry data cited by Michael Gold, founder and CEO of Gold Family Wealth in Westport, Connecticut, a wave that threatens to leave many ultra wealthy families…