Amidst the COVID pandemic many turned to their love of baking for fulfillment and profit. Eight inspiring stories of joy in hard times!

On International Women's Days Westlake Nation recognizes Alison Soelter (Coach Swimming and Diving), Darci Carruthers (Girls Soccer),...

Traditional banks worry that Walmart with 150 million customers and more than 5,000 locations may be adding newly allowed bank services.

Falling COVID rates due to vaccinations and other factors are now fueling employment gains in beaten down sectors like leisure/hospitality.

Imagine having your key credentials immediately verified online! Enter Azure Active Directory that holds approved tokens rather documents.

Advanced surviellance tools combined with AI have the potential for misuse. Citizens, politicians and police struggle to find alignment.

Pushing Federal Procurement to favor "Made in the USA" is appealing but ignores supply chain realities and international trade agreements.

U.S. underperformed responding to COVID but efforts of private industry & cross-collaboration with agencies and academia saved us from worse

Batteries to stabilize electric delivery will become common in buildings and neighborhoods. A small cube unit is made by Fluenceenergy.com

Pandemic aside corporate RELOs are hitting records & high rise builders are aligned with 17 on the way & 26 in-the-works or in planning.

Everything that is old is new might be the 2021 anthem for the Mighty Moss electric generating plant. New life from surging battery tech !

At MGH, one physician worked with a team to develop an AI model to identify early-on patients at higher risk for developing breast cancer.

Austin's Iconic Amy's Ice Cream combined great financial management, employee transparency, government PPP, innovation & purpose to survive!

Sucking CO2 from air may save the planet. OXY envisions a future that removes CO2 using it to extract oil & making its use carbon neutral.

Molecular Genetics is yielding new therapies but gene banks are mostly from european ancestry thereby limiting understanding of all diseases

Pandemic hasn't slow relocation to sunbelt cities like Austin. Austin will be the number 1 destination in 2021 despite rising prices of 11%

Gold aside, the pandemic depressed commodity prices. Oil aside, most are now well-beyond Jan 2020 levels. Are we poised for a supercycle?

Big organizations having more than 500 employees here in the Austin have roles primarily in IT 32%, Retail 24%, Health Care 20%.

Moving to Austin from California tranlates to a better & more affordable family lifestyle & for firms savings up to 20%.

Electric Vehicle makers include Tesla, traditional automakers, Rivian&Others and new entrants Alibaba, Baidu, Foxconn and now Apple.