What Is Your Housing Situation? We Want to Hear From You.
“No society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members.” I have that quote (from “Crabgrass Frontier,” the seminal history of America’s suburbs) taped to a wall behind my desk. It summarizes why I love covering housing…
Trader Joe’s Is Coming to Springfield. Just Not That Springfield.
So when The Springfield News-Leader, a newspaper that serves Springfield, Mo., reported that Trader Joe’s planned to open a store there with a quote from a company statement, it was noticed. “I’m happy to confirm we have plans to open…
Stocks Jump as Nvidia Sets Off Tech Rally
Stocks on Wall Street recorded their biggest gain in more than a year on Thursday, a day after Nvidia, which has become an emblem of the growth potential offered by artificial intelligence, reported record profits. The S&P 500 rose 2.1…
What Is Your Housing Situation? We Want to Hear From You.
“No society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members.” I have that quote (from “Crabgrass Frontier,” the seminal history of America’s suburbs) taped to a wall behind my desk. It summarizes why I love covering housing…
Lactation Consultant Group Investigates Tongue-Tie Advocate
The national body that certifies lactation consultants is investigating whether a consultant in Boise, Idaho, has been inappropriately pushing an unproven procedure on new mothers struggling to breastfeed, according to a letter reviewed by The New York Times. The lactation…
Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Has Fallen Out of Favor
By Matt Richtel Reported from ice-cream shops and frozen-food aisles in Boulder, Colo. Feb. 15, 2024 Banana pudding, chocolate fudge brownie, salted caramel, Cherry Garcia, Dr Pepper Float and dozens of other flavors packed the ice-cream freezer at a local…
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has Switched Incorporation to Texas
The private rocket company SpaceX has switched where it is incorporated to Texas from Delaware, its founder, Elon Musk, said on Wednesday, weeks after a Delaware judge voided his pay package at Tesla, another company he owns. The Texas secretary…
Joel Belz, Trailblazer in Christian Journalism, Is Dead at 82
In 1977, he became managing editor of The Presbyterian Journal, a struggling publication in Asheville founded in 1942 by L. Nelson Bell (the Rev. Billy Graham’s father-in-law). Mr. Belz later proposed that the organization start a children’s magazine much like…
Did You Keep a Money Secret, and Have a Happy Outcome? Tell Us About It.
It’s not unusual to hear tales of people keeping family members or friends in the dark about aspects of their finances — debt from credit cards or gambling losses, for example — and how those issues caused problems in a…
Paramount Lays Off Hundreds of Workers
Paramount, the owner of TV networks like Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, is laying off hundreds of employees, cutting costs as it continues its painful transition away from traditional television. About 3 percent of the company’s roughly 24,500 employees will…