Reporting at the scale of a town or district, where one employer can determine a tax base, a school budget and a housing market. Coverage follows arrivals, closures, incentive deals and the years afterward. Read by local officials, economic development staff, planners and residents facing similar decisions.
When a stadium or megadevelopment wants public land, the neighborhood sometimes gets a contract. The documented record shows when those contracts pay and when they are set dressing.
Hana Kimura · February 18, 2026
Employee stock ownership plans now cover over 10 million Americans, and the towns where retiring owners sold to their workers document what changes when payroll becomes ownership.
Hana Kimura · January 26, 2026
Rural hospital closures do more than lengthen the drive to emergency care: they remove a county's largest employer and a anchor of its tax base.
Jay Douglas · January 4, 2026