Communities
News Deserts Cost More Than the News
A third of American newspapers have closed since 2005, and the research documents what counties lose besides coverage: civic information, cheaper borrowing, and honest government.
Hana Kimura
Communities
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.
Town and neighborhood reporting on local economies: an employer arriving or leaving, the tax base that follows it, and what a municipal budget can absorb.
Communities
The Quiet Lenders of the Working Town
Credit unions and CDFIs hold a small share of U.S. assets but a documented outsized share of the lending banks decline, from used cars to small-business survival.
Hana Kimura
Communities
When the Power Plant Pays the School Budget
Coal and gas plants sit on tax rolls worth hundreds of millions, and their retirements document what happens to districts that treated one facility as a fiscal base.
Hana Kimura
Communities
Second Lives for America's Poisoned Ground
Hundreds of thousands of brownfield sites sit in the towns industry left, and the documented redevelopment math finally works where liability and funding align.
Jay Douglas
Communities
Broadband Arrived Late to Rural Main Street
Billions in federal money are finally wiring rural America, and the documented early returns show what changes when the county gets real upload speeds.
Hana Kimura