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News Tipoffs - North Dakota Editors Newsletter for Thursday September 21, 2023 ( 5 items )  

GSA: Lightening Carbon Footprint One Purchase of Asphalt, Concrete, Glass and Steel at a Time
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The General Services Administration issued the following news on Sept. 20, 2023: * * * GSA is responsible for constructing and maintaining land ports of entry (LPOEs) along the nation's borders in support of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security-Customs and Border Protection and other federal agencies. This is the first in a quarterly series of updates on LPOE modernization projects. * * * In a place that gets more than 300 days of sunshine a year, adding solar pa  more

SBA Announces Over $5 Million in Awards to Support STEM, R&D-Focused Small Businesses
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2023: Today, Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden's Cabinet for America's 33 million small businesses, announced the SBA's 2023 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition Stage Two winners. Thirty-five award-winning accelerator partnerships will receive $150,000 each to help adva  more

Team Minot Welcomes Newest Deputy Commanders
MINOT AFB, North Dakota, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Air Force Minot Air Force Base issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Kyle Wilson, 5th Bomb Wing Public Affairs Recently, Team Minot welcomed its newest deputy commanders. U.S. Air Force Col. Benjamin Jensen and U.S. Air Force Col. George L. Chapman assumed deputy commander duties for the 5th Bomb Wing and 91st Missile Wing respectively. Jensen most recently served as Chief of the Bomber Requirements Division at Air Force Global Strike Com  more

What's 5th Maintenance Group's Key to Success? Training!
MINOT AFB, North Dakota, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Air Force's 82nd Training Wing issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Alyssa Bankston, Minot Air Force Base Public Affairs Class is in session. The 372nd Training Squadron, Detachment 22, is an Air Education and Training Command detachment with its host command at Sheppard AFB, Texas. Det. 22 delivers aircraft maintenance training to Airmen assigned to the 5th Maintenance Group. "We have a really big focus on empowering people and giving   more

White House: State by State Impacts - House Republicans' Extreme CR Would Decimate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program as Temperatures Drop
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following news release: With less than two weeks before the end of the fiscal year, extreme House Republicans are playing partisan games with peoples' lives and marching our country toward a government shutdown that would have damaging impacts all across the country. Instead of working in a bipartisan manner to keep the government open and address emergency needs for the American people, House Republicans introduced a continuing resol  more