Business News
The Great Handoff: Boomers Selling the Store
Most family businesses reaching succession in the next decade have no heir in line, and the documented outcomes split between sales, closures, and a growing third path.
Jay Douglas
Business News
Company news covered through what follows it: site openings and closures, relocation, mass layoff notices, acquisitions and capital commitments, with headcount and location detail where filed. Entries name the communities involved. Read by workforce boards, economic development officers, investors and reporters covering regional economies.
Corporate developments reported with consequences attached: relocations, layoffs, acquisitions and investment commitments, and who absorbs each.
Business News
Private Equity Bought Your Hospital's Neighbors
Buyout firms own a documented share of U.S. healthcare, from nursing homes to physician practices, and the outcomes research shows where care quality moved.
Jay Douglas
Business News
Retail Bankruptcies Keep Scoring the Malls
Chapter 11 filings in retail ran at elevated rates through 2025, and the closure lists inside each docket document which malls and main streets lose their anchors.
Jay Douglas
Business News
Layoffs in 2026: Trust the Filings, Not the Feed
Viral layoff tallies exaggerate the picture. The WARN notices, WARN Act lawsuits, and severance filings tell a more precise story about who is actually losing work.
Jay Douglas
Business News
The Craft Brewery Shakeout Reaches Main Street
After three decades of relentless growth, craft breweries are now closing faster than they open for the first time, and the taproom economics explain why the corner brewery felt it first.
Jay Douglas