As the dire implications of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill emerge, you and your readers are probably wondering how it could affect your region’s economy. Millions of gallons of crude oil is riding the waves toward shore, so it’s clear that coastal fishing and tourism industries will take the immediate hit. First think you [...]
Health-care: A special daily story idea chat guest hosted by John Wasik who is writing a new book on health-care reform. This chat was held on April 6, 2010. Story Idea Chat – week of April 5
These tips were gathered from the highlights of an online discussion with personal finance columnist and author John Wasik. TIPS, RESOURCES and TAKEAWAYS: Covering health-care reform Summaries of the final legislation: Search House.gov for ‘health care’ or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s site. For the many valid criticisms of the bill: Dan Froomkin’s blog on Huffington [...]
John Wasik is an award-winning author of 13 books on topics ranging from history, politics, the environment, economics and investing. Wasik is a personal finance columnist for Bloomberg News and regular contributor to Huffington Post. Author of The Audacity of Help: Obama’s Economic Plan and the Remaking of America, Wasik is working on a new [...]
The Washington Post announced Thursday that it will be changing the name and format of its economic policy newsletter. Starting Monday, May 3, Economic Agenda will be replaced by Ezra Klein‘s Wonkbook. On WashingtonPost.com and in the Washington Post’s newsletters, the Economic Agenda has included a weekly lookahead and notes and news related to economic [...]
Barbara Martinez of The Wall Street Journal worked with Henry Dove, a professor at Yale University’s School of Public Health, to analyze Medicare payments for home health care. Their analysis tracked how the number of treatments patients received closely mirrored Medicare financial incentives. The Journal’s analysis, based on publicly available Medicare records, found that when [...]
Delta’s brief tenure at the top of the airline heap may be limited if news reports are correct about the soon-to-be merger of Continental and United airlines. The Wall Street Journal and other sources reported late Thursday that merger talks were on between two of the largest U.S. commercial carriers. If board meetings take place [...]
The news that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t care about Facebook users’ privacy was pretty interesting if a little jarring yesterday morning. The way that Nick Bilton, lead technology writer at The New York Times, shared it for his nearly 11,000 Twitter followers was a little jarring for journalists. “Off the record” chat for most [...]
Looking for an energy story that doesn’t involve electric cars, ethanol or oil slicks? Get up to speed on the wind power presence in your region. Electrical energy generated by freestanding turbines is getting its share of PR this week. President Obama stopped at a blade plant in Iowa to tout the homegrown energy alternative. [...]
