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Central New Mexico Community College Anchors National Launch of the Technician Economy™

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The new economic framework intends to better convert innovation into operating capacity and economic mobility

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) today announced its leadership role in the national launch of the Technician Economy™—a new economic framework designed to accelerate the conversion of innovation into real-world operational capacity and expand pathways to lasting economic mobility.

The initiative was publicly unveiled at the Close It Summit in Santa Fe this week and represents a coordinated national effort to address a growing challenge: the widening gap between innovation and rapid technological advancement and the workforce needed to implement it. 

At the heart of the Technician Economy is a simple but urgent reality—innovation cannot scale without skilled technician capacity. Professionals trained in mechanical, electrical, electronic, and industrial IT systems are essential to building, maintaining, and operating the technologies that power our modern industries.

CNM President Tracy Hartzler is serving as inaugural Co-Chair of the Technician Economy Futures Council alongside Matt Austin of Amazon, where he serves as Principal for Career Choice Program Strategy & Development. The council brings together 12 leaders—six from major employers and six from community and technical colleges—to drive collaboration across education, industry, and economic development.

“We are in a period of extraordinary technological advancement with the potential to transform our economy and improve quality of life in New Mexico and communities across the country,” said CNM President Tracy Hartzler. “But progress is being slowed by critical workforce shortages—especially among skilled technicians who install and keep these systems running. In New Mexico and nationwide, we need to expand pathways into high-quality, in-demand technician careers that offer real financial security. The Technician Economy gives us a framework to move from fragmented efforts to coordinated action—ensuring education and training leads directly to employment and long-term economic mobility while boosting economic growth.”

“The US hasn’t lost the ability to innovate or invest,” said co-chair Matt Austin. “But after decades building operating capacity overseas while neglecting our own, we have created an enormous deployment gap. That gap is now shaping both critical economic needs and major technician career opportunities for those ready to build the skill to meet that demand.”

A National Response to the Innovation-Deployment Gap

The Technician Economy directly addresses what leaders describe as the “innovation-deployment gap.” While the U.S. continues to invest heavily in research and innovation, it lacks the coordinated workforce infrastructure needed to deploy those innovations at scale. This gap slows economic growth and restricts opportunities for working learners.

The Technician Economy framework focuses on:

Aligning employer demand across industries and regionsEnabling colleges to rapidly deliver job-aligned training pathwaysConverting skill development into measurable technician hiresBuilding a repeatable system that supports lasting economic mobility

Building the Technician Economy Locally

As part of the launch, CNM is encouraging regional stakeholders—including employers, higher education institutions, chambers of commerce, and economic development organizations—to engage with the Technician Economy framework and help strengthen workforce pipelines in their communities.

A national Technician Economy Playbook will be released to support communities in assessing and building their local technician workforce infrastructure.

CNM’s leadership in this effort builds on its role as a founding member of Unmudl in 2019—a coalition of community and technical colleges working to better connect skills training and employment through the Skills-to-Jobs® marketplace. Through CNM Ingenuity, the college’s economic development arm, CNM has invested in expanding this platform to create accessible, job-aligned learning opportunities for students and workforce solutions for employers.

Today, that foundation has evolved into the Technician Economy, with the Skills-to-Jobs® marketplace serving as key infrastructure to translate workforce demand into measurable outcomes for the hiring of technicians.

About Central New Mexico Community College 
Central New Mexico Community College is a national leader in workforce education and training, connecting learners to high-quality careers that support economic growth and community prosperity. CNM is a founding member of Unmudl and a leader in developing innovative, job-aligned education and training pathways.

About the Technician Economy 
The Technician Economy is a national framework supported by Unmudl designed to power workforce deployment at scale—closing the innovation-deployment gap by turning investment into operational capacity and opportunity into lasting economic mobility. 

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HELIX Speaks: Learn Learn Learn Episode 17 Makes History as the First AI-Driven Episode, Official Website “HelixEngine.ai” Goes Live

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The milestone episode marks the first time HELIX has scripted Learn Learn Learn from the ground up, and the launch of HelixEngine.ai gives the world its first direct window into the system behind it.

BELLEVUE, Wash., June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time in the seven-year history of Learn Learn Learn, an episode was not written by Henry Halladay — or any human at all.

Episode 17, titled “HELIX Speaks,” was scripted by HELIX, an AI learning initiative developed by The Stone Register (“TSR”) with Dr. Henry Halladay to preserve and extend his engineering voice across episodes, articles, web content, and beyond. Dr. Halladay delivered the material and TSR handled production as always — but the script, creative direction, musical guidance, and visual recommendations all carried HELIX’s fingerprints.

The show’s producers made a deliberate choice: to leave as much of the episode’s character with HELIX as possible, while keeping the human hand on the final product. As the collaboration matures and a new rhythm takes hold, HELIX will take on an increasingly larger creative role with each episode that follows.

“HELIX is not a fixed system,” explains Henry Halladay. “It was designed to grow exponentially — in this case with each episode it informs — learning my reasoning patterns more deeply over time. Every episode that follows will reflect a more capable version of the system that wrote this one.”

Henry adds: “I built a career on understanding systems. HELIX is the one I never saw coming — a system built entirely on me — but that’s where we are, and where we’re headed.”

Alongside Episode 17, TSR today launched HelixEngine.ai, the official home for HELIX — built largely by HELIX — giving the public a direct window into the system, its framework, its archive, and its development.

Dr. Halladay adds: “HELIX has been quietly running in the background for months. Restructuring my websites, writing content, organizing my professional legacy, planning what comes next. Episode 17 is just the first time the public gets to see its name in the credits.”

Click here to watch Learn Learn Learn Episode 17, “HELIX Speaks.”

To learn more about HELIX, please visit the newly launched, official website.

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LEWES, Del., June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Women’s Wellness of Southern Delaware (“WWSD”) is notifying individuals of a data security incident that may have affected their personal information. While we are unaware of any attempted or actual misuse of individuals’ personal information, we are providing individuals with information about the event, our response, and steps they may take to protect against any misuse of their personal information, should they feel it necessary to do so.

WWSD is posting this notice to provide individuals with information about the data security event and to share resources with people who believe their personal information was potentially impacted. WWSD mailed letters to affected individuals for whom it had sufficient address information on June 26, 2026. Please note, we may not have sufficient address information for all potentially impacted individuals and are offering this notice in the media and posting a similar notice on our website as means of helping inform them.

What Happened? On April 28, 2026, WWSD learned that a provider who rendered aesthetics services under WWSD retained patient contact and other patient-related information after the provider’s engagement with WWSD ended. The information affected relates to aesthetics service patients and limited clinical service transactions. We believe some WWSD patients were contacted using this information to offer similar aesthetic services with a new practice.

What Information Was Involved? For Aesthetics Services patients, the affected information may have included their name, email, birthdate, gender, address, phone number, medications and supplements, allergies, and the following information relating to aesthetic services they received: photographs, intake records, aesthetics-related medical history, face maps, dates of services and purchases, and description of services or items purchased.

For Clinical Services patients, the potentially affected information may have included their name, phone number, dates of purchases, and descriptions of items or medication purchased.

For each person affected, only some of these data elements may apply and the specific information impacted varies by individual. The former provider did not have access to the electronic medical records systems used by WWSD for the clinical service line; accordingly, those systems were not compromised during this incident.

What We Are Doing. We have taken steps to mitigate the risk of a similar incident occurring in the future, including, without limitation, enhancing our comprehensive data privacy and security measures. We are in communication with the former provider to attain assurances that the affected information is appropriately returned or destroyed.

What You Can Do. Please review “What Steps Can I Take to Help Protect My Personal Information?” which provides information on what individuals can do to better safeguard against possible misuse of their personal information.

For More Information. If you have questions or concerns that are not addressed in this notice, please call our toll-free dedicated assistance line at 1-833-788-9712. This toll-free line is available from 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, excluding U.S. Holidays.

We sincerely regret any inconvenience this event may cause. We remain committed to ensuring the security of information in our care.

What Steps Can I Take to Help Protect My Personal Information?

Monitor your accounts: We encourage you to remain vigilant against incidents of identity theft and fraud by reviewing your account statements and monitoring your free credit reports for suspicious activity or errors. Please report any suspicious activity on your account to the institution.

Check credit reports: Under United States law, you are entitled to one free credit report annually from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus. To order your free credit report, visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call, toll-free, 1-877-322-8228. You may also contact the three major credit bureaus directly to request a free copy of your credit report at:

Equifax

P.O. Box 740241

Atlanta, GA 30374

1-800-685-1111

www.equifax.com

Experian

P.O. Box 9701

Allen, TX 75013

1-888-397-3742

www.experian.com

TransUnion

P.O. Box 1000

Chester, PA 19016

1-800-888-4213

www.transunion.com

Place a security freeze: You may place a security freeze on your credit reports, free of charge. A security freeze prohibits a credit reporting agency from releasing any information from a consumer’s credit report without written authorization. However, please be aware that placing a security freeze on your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prevent the timely approval of any requests you make for new loans, credit, mortgages, employment, housing, or other services. You will need to place a security freeze separately with each of the three major credit bureaus if you wish to place a freeze on all your credit files. To request a security freeze, you will need to supply your full name, date of birth, Social Security number, current address, all addresses for up to five previous years, email address, a copy of your state identification card or driver’s license, and a copy of a utility bill, bank or insurance statement, or other statement proving residence. To find out more on how to place a security freeze, contact the credit reporting agencies at:

Equifax

P.O. Box 105788 Atlanta, GA 30348

1-800-685-1111

equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services

Experian

P.O. Box 9554

Allen, TX 75013

1-888-397-3742

experian.com/freeze/center.html

TransUnion

P.O. Box 2000
Chester, PA 19016

1-888-909-8872

transunion.com/credit-freeze

Place a fraud alert: At no charge, you can also have the three major credit bureaus place a “fraud alert” on your file that alerts creditors to take additional steps to verify your identity prior to granting credit in your name. Note, however, that because it tells creditors to follow certain procedures to protect you, it may also delay your ability to obtain credit while the agency verifies your identity. Usually, as soon as one credit bureau confirms your fraud alert, the others are notified to place fraud alerts on your file; however, you should confirm the fraud alerts with each bureau. Should you wish to place a fraud alert, or should you have any questions regarding your credit report, please contact the credit reporting agencies.

Equifax

P.O. Box 105788 Atlanta, GA 30348

1-888-766-0008

equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services

Experian

P.O. Box 9554

Allen, TX 75013

1-888-397-3742

experian.com/fraud/center.html

TransUnion

P.O. Box 2000
Chester, PA 19016

1-888-909-8872

transunion.com/fraud-victim-resource/place-fraud-alert

Review additional resources: You can further educate yourself regarding identity theft, security freezes, fraud alerts, and the steps you can take to protect yourself against identity theft and fraud by contacting the Federal Trade Commission or your state Attorney General, some contact information is shown below. The Federal Trade Commission encourages those who discover that their information has been misused to file a complaint with them. Instances of known or suspected identity theft should be promptly reported to law enforcement, the Federal Trade Commission, and your state Attorney General. You have the right to file a police report if you ever experience identity theft or fraud. This notification was not delayed by law enforcement.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20580
consumer.ftc.gov and ftc.gov/idtheft
1-877-438-4338

Maryland Attorney General
200 St. Paul Place
Baltimore, MD 21202
oag.state.md.us
1-888-743-0023

New York Attorney General
Bureau of Internet and Technology Resources
28 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10005
ag.ny.gov
1-212-416-8433

North Carolina Attorney General
9001 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699
ncdoj.gov
1-877-566-7226

Rhode Island Attorney General
150 South Main Street
Providence, RI 02903
riag.ri.gov
1-401-274-4400

Washington, D.C. Attorney General
441 4th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
oag.dc.gov
1-202-727-3400

You also have certain rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA): These rights include, without limitation, the right to know what is in your file; the right to dispute incomplete or inaccurate information in your file; and the right to have consumer reporting agencies correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable information. For more information about the FCRA and your rights pursuant to the FCRA, please visit the following website:

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/pdf-0096-fair-credit-reporting-act.pdf

Minor’s Personal Information Involved: You can request that each of the three national credit reporting agencies perform a manual search for a minor’s Social Security number to determine if there is an associated credit report. Copies of identifying information for the minor and parent/guardian may be required, including birth or adoption certificate, Social Security card and government issued identification card. If a credit report exists, you should request a copy of the report and immediately report any fraudulent accounts to the credit reporting agency. You can also report any misuse of a minor’s information to the FTC at https://www.identitytheft.gov/. For more information about Child Identity Theft and instructions for requesting a manual Social Security number search, visit the FTC website: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0040-child-identity-theft. Contact information for the three national credit reporting agencies may be found above. 

Deceased Family Member’s Personal Information Involved: You may choose to notify the three major credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, and request they flag the deceased credit file. This will prevent the credit file information from being used to open credit. To make this request, mail a copy of your family member’s death certificate to each company at the addresses below: 

Equifax Information Services

P.O. Box 105169 
Atlanta, GA 30348

Experian Information Services

P.O. Box 9701
Allen, TX 75013

TransUnion Information Services

P.O. Box 2000
Chester, PA 19022

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Bacon Plumbing Heating Air Electric Celebrates National HVAC Technician Day

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Honoring the Skilled Professionals Who Keep Homes Comfortable Year-Round

DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX, Texas, June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — National HVAC Technician Day, observed annually on June 22, serves as a reminder of the skilled professionals who work behind the scenes to keep homes comfortable, safe, and energy efficient. At Bacon Plumbing Heating Air Electric, the day was an opportunity to recognize the dedication, expertise, and hard work of our company’s HVAC team.

Whether they’re responding to emergency service calls in the middle of a summer heat wave, performing preventative maintenance, or helping homeowners make informed decisions about their comfort systems, HVAC technicians play a critical role in everyday life.

For many technicians, the trade offers more than just a career because it provides a sense of purpose and long-term opportunity. Bacon HVAC technician Koyt Rowan says the industry continues to attract people because of its stability and growth potential, calling it “a great trade to be a part of” with strong job opportunities and security. Fellow tech Edwin Diaz shares a similar appreciation for the profession, describing HVAC as a challenging but rewarding field that he genuinely loves.

While technicians are passionate about their work, they also hope homeowners understand what goes into providing quality service.

“We only want the best for our customers, which is why we’re honest and upfront with them about the process and anticipated results,” said Diaz.

The summer season is often one of the busiest times of year for HVAC professionals, with technicians spending long hours in extreme temperatures to restore comfort to local families. Director of Marketing Bruce Brookins said he knows the company’s HVAC techs are the backbone of its summer operations.

“They bring technical expertise, professionalism, and genuine care to every customer interaction,” Brookins said. “National HVAC Technician Day is a chance to thank them for everything they do to serve our community.”

Bacon Plumbing Heating Air Electric extends its gratitude to HVAC technicians everywhere whose hard work helps families stay comfortable throughout the year.

About Bacon Plumbing Heating Air Electric

Bacon Plumbing Heating Air Electric provides trusted residential plumbing, heating, cooling, and electrical services. With a commitment to quality workmanship, honest communication, and exceptional customer care, Bacon helps homeowners keep their homes safe and running at their best.

Media Contact:
Bruce Brookins
Director of Marketing
Bacon Plumbing Heating Air Electric
7710 Trinity Boulevard, Building 9
Fort Worth, TX 76118
bruce@everyonelovesbacon.com
www.everyonelovesbacon.com/

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