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Pitt-Greensburg News: Writers Festival celebrating 25 years
25th Anniversary of the Pitt-Greensburg Writers Festival Celebrates the Healing Art of Storytelling GREENSBURG, PA – The writer Tim O’Brien calls storytelling an essential human activity. "The harder the situation,” O’Brien says, “the more essential it is." This April at Pitt-Greensburg, poets, writers, and storytellers will come together for five days of that essential activity as the campus celebrates the 25th year of its annual Writers Festival. Dave Newman, Pitt-Greensburg professor,
Tariffs on Imports Rocking Small Businesses as They Scramble to Adapt
Business owners say tariffs will impact their ability to grow and hire and are already making them less profitable.By: Jeanette Mulvey , Editor-in-ChiefShare Darianna Bridal & Tuxedo is one of many small businesses preparing for tariff impacts. — Darianna Bridal & Tuxedo Looming tariffs on imported goods, parts, and raw materials have small businesses worried and planning for the worst. With uncertainty about when tariffs will be enacted, which countries will be affected, and how long these measures
Saint Vincent College professor uses ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Star Wars’ to explain how leadership is a s
Saint Vincent College professor uses ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Star Wars’ to explain how leadership is a superpower LATROBE, PA – Every Tuesday and Thursday, as dusk settles over the quiet streets of Latrobe, Dr. Michael Urick—a mild-mannered professor at Saint Vincent College and dean of the Alex. G. McKenna School of Business Economics and Government—unleashes his academic superpowers.Urick, professor of management and operational excellence, is teaching a unique and popular course, “Leadership for Jedi,
Congressional Leaders Pitch Permanent Tax Reform
Top congressional tax writers shared the stage with policy experts and business community leaders before a packed room at the U.S. Chamber’s 2025 Tax Policy Summit on Wednesday. They made the case for permanently extending 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) reforms. Why it matters: Key provisions in the TCJA are set to expire at the end of the year, leading to a historic tax increase. The U.S. Chamber is leading the effort to make the reforms from the 2017 law permanent because smart tax policy
Treasury Department Announces Suspension of Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act Against U.S. Citizens and Domestic Reporting Companies
Treasury Department Announces Suspension of Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act Against U.S. Citizens and Domestic Reporting CompaniesMarch 2, 2025The Treasury Department is announcing today that, with respect to the Corporate Transparency Act, not only will it not enforce any penalties or fines associated with the beneficial ownership information reporting rule under the existing regulatory deadlines, but it will further not enforce any penalties or fines against U.S. citizens or domestic reporting
