Local municipal managers rack up state, national awards

Tarentum Manager Dwight Boddorf credits much of his leadership ability to a mindset he learned in the Marine Corps — stay ...
The Economist

The meaning of China’s record-high trade surplus

China’s “hard power” in economics, science and technology has “significantly improved”, boasted the Communist Party’s ...
Opinion
StateTech MagazineOpinion

State and Local Governments Should Test Platforms, Not Projects

Start with services and outcomes, reuse standard building blocks and govern with pragmatic guardrails, CDW experts say.
IEEE

A Remote Sensing Semantic Self-Supervised Segmentation Model Integrating Local Sensitivity and Global Invariance

Abstract: Self-supervised semantic segmentation is a crucial approach for addressing the issue of insufficient labeled data. However, traditional self-supervised learning methods designed for natural ...
IEEE

PointMax: Self-Boosted Local Sampling for 3D Point Cloud Analysis

Abstract: Local sampling plays a key role in modeling 3D point clouds. Due to the disordered and unstructured nature of point cloud data, conventional 3D deep models such as PointNet++ and its ...
Seattle Times

Luxury, lineage and local flavor define Tipperary’s global moment

Ireland’s Golden Vale isn’t the kind of place that shouts for attention, but this year, it’s earning it anyway. Named one of Lonely Planet’s Top 25 Places to Visit in 2026, County Tipperary is ...