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The Washington International Trade Foundation (WITF) will hold its 2026 Annual Dinner, co-organized with WITA, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. The event, described as the biggest trade gathering in Washington D.C., is yet to announce its honorees. Previously, on February 17, 2026, WITF reported on a Pennsylvania agency ruling that may limit public access to state officials’ artificial intelligence conversations. Earlier, on January 27, 2026, WITF covered calls from Pennsylvania counties for lawmakers to raise funding for 911 mental health services and property reassessments as the state's budget season commenced. This followed a January 9, 2026, partnership where WITF and Pennon Education delivered a multi-week series of STEM lessons, blending literacy, science, engineering, and technology, to kindergarten through third-grade students at Fulton Elementary School in the School District of Lancaster. The parent company of WITF, Pennon, had announced on December 2, 2025, that it gifted its LNP newspaper to a new nonprofit organization, with former NPR host David Greene appointed as interim publisher.