The Economy Today: Slider Shots

News from Tennessee, Georgia, North Dakota, and elsewhere

By Jane Kim   Jun 12, 2009 at 10:14 AM

Nationally, The New York Times reports that, “with about 2,000 Chrysler and General Motors dealers losing their franchises as the... More

Huffy HuffPo

By Jane Kim   Jun 11, 2009 at 03:43 PM

The headline of a post on the Washington City Paper’s City Desk blog reads, “HuffPo Scolds Washingon City Paper for... More

The Economy Today: Money Here, None There (Yet)

News from Oregon, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere

By Jane Kim   Jun 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM

The New York Times reports that charitable giving declined last year “by the largest percentage in five decades” (a decrease... More

The Economy Today: Constructive Construction?

News from Montana, Arizona, Ohio, and elsewhere

By Jane Kim   Jun 9, 2009 at 09:32 AM

In national headlines, President Obama vowed yesterday to accelerate stimulus spending, with the goal, the Los Angeles Times writes, of... More

The Economy Today: Stimulus Naughts

News from Ohio, Maryland, Michigan and elsewhere

By Jane Kim   Jun 5, 2009 at 10:13 AM

In national headlines, state revenues are being buffeted by the economic downturn. The information comes from a new report by... More

The Economy Today: Chapter 11

News from Detroit, Orlando, Fort Worth, Hanford and elsewhere

By Jane Kim   Jun 1, 2009 at 10:51 AM

National headlines today focus on the news that General Motors will declare bankruptcy. The move, the largest industrial bankruptcy in... More

The Economy Today: Wait, How Much Did We Spend?

Headlines from New Mexico, Tennessee, Maine and elsewhere

By Jane Kim   May 29, 2009 at 10:26 AM

The New York Times reports that, earlier this month, the Obama administration overstated (by “roughly a third”) how much of... More

Watching Sotomayor, Part II

If it’s a fight, define the sides better

By Jane Kim   May 29, 2009 at 09:07 AM

We had our fingers crossed that coverage of Sonia Sotomayor’s SCOTUS nomination would manage to skirt the sort of reaction... More

The Economy Today: Weathering the Storm

News from Colorado, Utah, California and elsewhere

By Jane Kim   May 28, 2009 at 10:19 AM

USA Today leads with a story about how stimulus projects are bypassing the hardest-hit states. Of the nearly $4 billion... More

Watching Sotomayor

How Day One coverage of the Supreme Court pick fared

By Jane Kim   May 26, 2009 at 04:45 PM

With the announcement that President Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court to replace... More

“Notables” at the Chronicle

By Jane Kim   May 22, 2009 at 02:08 PM

The San Francisco Chronicle has been asking some of "the local notables that make the Bay Area what it is"... More

The Economy Today: More Stimulus Money for Your Mansion?

News from Montana, Utah, New Mexico, and elsewhere

By Jane Kim   May 22, 2009 at 10:35 AM

Washington is considering a new agency that would protect consumers of financial products, Reuters reports, as part of an effort... More

California Knockout

Reports focus too myopically on the battle between guv and voters

By Jane Kim   May 21, 2009 at 11:09 AM

On Tuesday, California residents voted down—with huge margins—all but one of six bundled ballot measures intended to help alleviate the... More

The Economy Today: Superheroes and Coupon Queens

News from California, Maine, Colorado, and elsewhere

By Jane Kim   May 21, 2009 at 10:32 AM

In national headlines, The New York Times reports on the new credit-card measures that Congress passed yesterday, which will increase... More

The Economy Today: Gold Coins and Gardening Seeds

News from California, Minnesota, Ohio and elsewhere

By Jane Kim   May 18, 2009 at 09:53 AM

In national headlines, The Washington Post runs a big story on the cost of being poor, writing, “The poorer you... More