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.
Your city budget is a plan written in numbers. Learn the two big columns, who approves the plan, and how to read the line items that shape local services.
Editorial Staff · October 5, 2026
Thirteen cases is not an outbreak. The state's advice to communities is about what happens next, in classrooms and households.
Hana Kimura · September 29, 2026
Resilient towns are rarely rescued by one big employer. They are built from ordinary institutions that keep money, information and people circulating locally.
Hana Kimura · September 27, 2026
More than 200 US counties now have no local news outlet at all, and the counties losing newsrooms are disproportionately poorer and older — a documented market failure with civic bills that arrive later.
Hana Kimura · August 26, 2026
