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Boulder, Colo. – September 15, 2026 -- State sales tax audits drag on for an average of 223 days and can stretch as long as 682 days, according to internal data released by tax compliance firm TaxValet, which has guided 38 clients through such audits.

TaxValet has managed $458,492 in historical tax exposure accumulated by clients before they joined the firm

Defending a single audit consumes more than 20 hours of expert support, TaxValet reported. The firm noted that 45 current clients switched directly from popular sales tax software providers after those tools failed to close compliance gaps.

Boston – September 15, 2026 -- Encoura has published a new analysis showing that academic fields outside higher education's most popular majors are drawing sustained student interest but lack the outcomes visibility needed to compete for enrollment. The Eduventures Admitted Student 2026 Trend Report, titled "Beyond the Big Five: Exploring Majors Outside the Mainstream," draws on more than 42,000 responses collected over three years through Eduventures Admitted Student Research.

Report identifies a 'Next Five' tier of academic fields trailing the dominant majors

The study defines the "Big Five" fields — Biology, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, and Health Professions — as benefiting from clear career pathways and employer pipelines. It identifies a "Next Five" tier — Visual and Performing Arts, Psychology, Education, Social Sciences, and Physical Sciences — as the next most significant area of admitted-student interest.

Wilmington – September 15, 2026 -- SweetNight, a global sleep solutions company, has placed its mattresses on the sales floor of Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), one of the largest home furnishings retailers in the United States, marking its expansion beyond e-commerce and social commerce into brick-and-mortar retail.

Products have been stocked at NFM since mid-May 2026

The rollout includes SweetNight's CoolNest® Series, a cooling sleep collection built on its proprietary CoolNest® System combining airflow technology and ergonomic support, alongside the Twilight Hybrid Mattress, one of the company's top-performing hybrid models.

Fremont, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Q'Apel Medical has launched the Lynx Aspiration Catheter System in the United States, expanding its neurovascular portfolio into the aspiration category for mechanical thrombectomy, the standard of care for acute ischemic stroke caused by vessel occlusion.

Lynx becomes the second Q'Apel product built on proprietary QLCT technology

The Lynx system marks the second device to feature Q'Apel's proprietary Q'Apel Laser Cut Tube (QLCT) technology, following the company's earlier product on this engineering platform. The catheters use a bimetal shaft design with an open-spaced nitinol structure intended to balance proximal support with distal flexibility while resisting kinking during navigation through complex cerebrovascular anatomy.

Phoenix – September 15, 2026 -- Foundation 8, LLC has closed a $44.5 million first mortgage loan with Hilco Global Real Estate Capital to refinance and reposition the office component of 333 N Central Avenue, a landmark mixed-use tower in Downtown Phoenix.

Loan refinances acquisition debt and funds leasing costs

The financing replaces existing acquisition debt and provides additional capital for leasing costs, tenant improvements, and capital improvements tied to Foundation 8's business plan for the property. The office component spans 246,490 square feet of Class AA space across the top eight floors, plus 2,522 square feet of ground-floor retail, rooftop amenity rights, and shared parking access. A separately owned 242-key Westin Hotel occupies the building's middle floors.

Houston – September 15, 2026 -- Gulf Coast Midstream Partners (GCMP) has launched a non-binding open season for firm natural gas storage and wheeling service at its Nash Storage Hub in Fort Bend County, Texas, running through October 23, 2026.

Nash Storage Hub secures permits for 57 Bcf of salt cavern capacity

The Railroad Commission of Texas has authorized GCMP to develop up to five underground salt caverns on the Nash Dome, totaling approximately 57 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of working gas storage capacity. The initial phase will consist of two salt caverns delivering 23 Bcf of combined working gas storage, 0.9 Bcf/d of injection capacity, and 1.5 Bcf/d of withdrawal capacity.

Iselin, N.J. – September 15, 2026 -- Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, a New Jersey law firm with more than a century of operation, has launched a fully redesigned website and rebranded its public-facing identity to Greenbaum Law.

Firm retires decades-old four-name-partner logo for simplified Greenbaum Law brand

The rebrand replaces the firm's longstanding visual identity with a new logo, color palette, modernized font, and a stylized graphical icon, while Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP remains the formal legal entity name. The changes are rolling out immediately across all firm communications and digital platforms.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- PerceivIQ, a decision intelligence platform for workforce and economic development organizations, has partnered with Revelio Labs to give civic organizations access to labor market data spanning 1.1 billion professional profiles, 5 billion job postings and 30 million companies across 195 countries.

The deal marks Revelio Labs' formal entry into the civic market at scale, positioning PerceivIQ as an authorized reseller of Revelio workforce data for Workforce Development Boards, Economic Development Organizations, Regional Chambers, Trade Associations and community colleges.

Tenerife – September 15, 2026 -- Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen will appear at STARMUS VIII in Tenerife and La Palma from October 17-22, 2026, fifteen years after the festival's 2011 founding event brought together Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Alexei Leonov in the Canary Islands.

Artemis II crew follows the same route once taken by Apollo-era legends

Wiseman, Glover and Hansen flew around the Moon and back earlier this year alongside Christina Koch, becoming part of the first crewed lunar mission in more than five decades and traveling farther from Earth than any humans before them. Their October appearance places three of the four Artemis II astronauts on the same festival stage where Armstrong, Aldrin and Leonov once spoke in 2011.

Santa Barbara, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Cronus Market Intelligence, LLC disclosed that its RegimeSignalTM platform posted an average 84% out-of-sample accuracy across four signals tracking the full S&P 500 market cycle, with bear signals hitting 86%, correction 84%, pullback 83% and recovery 82%.

Four signals cover every stage of the market cycle

Each accuracy figure represents the share of signal fires that were correct, measured on an out-of-sample basis. The recovery signal, the weakest performer at 82%, is described as a historical upper bound and was the specific signal flagged with qualifications in independent review.