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The House Small Business Committee is investigating the Small Business Administration after an SBA inspector general's report found the agency misappropriated COVID funds.

With ChatGPT now having 170 million plus users, AdviceBridge chief commercial officer Bruce Ely-Johnston urges advisers to think about the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI).

Wyndham and CLC World Resorts & Hotels have announced plans to brand 12 properties in key leisure destinations. The deal includes hotels in Spain, Canary Islands, Turkey, UK and Austria.

LONDON, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchising company with approximately 9,000 hotels across nearly 95 countries, and CLC World Resorts & Hotels – one of Europe’s largest independent resort operators with a growing collection of properties – today announced plans to brand 12 properties in key leisure destinations in Spain, Canary Islands, Turkey, UK, and Austria.

City Council has held two closed meetings to interview candidates. Councilors will discuss those interviews in an upcoming closed meeting.

The Progress-Index PETERSBURG — Patrick Ingram was scheduled to fly to London when the U.S. announced that it was shutting down the borders in response to the growing spread of what is now COVID-19.  The Center for Disease Control just declared the novel coronavirus, at the time, a pandemic just two days prior. The flight to London was eerie, said Ingram. The Boeing 767-400 plane can seat over 300 passengers, but only eight were in attendance. The flight back to the states, however, was some...

The Progress-Index PETERSBURG – The nearly five-year tenure of City Manager Aretha Ferrell-Benavides comes to a close this week, after which she will return to her home state of Texas to fill the same role in the City of Duncanville, a suburb of Dallas.  She arrived in 2017 to a Petersburg in disarray. The city had recently discovered that its cash reserves had plunged into the red, sitting at negative $7.7 million months before her arrival, which prompted the hiring of the Robert ...