Health
Home Health Becomes the Contested Ground
Every payer wants care delivered at home because it is cheaper. The workforce that would deliver it is the least stable in the industry, and the two facts have not yet been reconciled.
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23 stories by Alexander Reed
National News
States Discover That Permitting Is a Policy, Not a Formality
Governments across the country are rewriting approval processes after concluding that the gap between funded projects and finished ones is largely administrative.
National News
Farmland Changes Hands, and the Buyer Is Rarely a Farmer
A generation of operators is retiring off land that has appreciated beyond what a successor can finance. The capital filling the gap has a different time horizon and different intentions.
National News
Courts Discover the Public Defender Shortage Is a Budget Problem
Caseload standards and staffing reality have diverged far enough that courts are dismissing cases and appointing private counsel at cost. The constitutional obligation is being met with a checkbook.
Business
Industrial Distribution Consolidates While Nobody Watches
The regional suppliers that stock fasteners, bearings and safety equipment are being rolled up at a steady clip. The buyers are acquiring something the catalog does not list.
Business
Why Corporate Reputation Is Becoming a Machine-Readable Asset
As AI systems become the first stop for research on companies and executives, reputation is shifting from something people perceive to something machines retrieve.
Health
Primary Care Confronts Its Labor Math
The physician shortage in primary care is no longer a projection. The response taking shape reorganizes who does what, rather than waiting for doctors who are not coming.
Business
A Wave of Retiring Owners Is Putting Main Street Up for Sale
Millions of small businesses are owned by people at or past retirement age, and most have no succession plan. The scramble to keep them alive is reshaping local economies.
AI
The Training Data Market Grows Up
After years of scraping first and negotiating later, AI developers are building formal licensing pipelines, and content owners are learning what their archives are worth.
National News
States Start Overruling Their Cities on Housing Supply
After a decade of encouraging local governments to permit more housing, several states have stopped asking. Preemption is producing measurable supply and a federalism fight that has barely started.
Business
The Service Contract Becomes the Product
For a widening set of manufacturers, the machine is now the customer acquisition cost and the maintenance agreement is the business. The shift is rewriting how these companies are valued.
Money
Savers Are Finally Being Paid, and They Are Acting Like It
After years of earning nothing, household savers have become rate shoppers, and the deposit market is behaving like a market again.
National News
State Pension Math Starts Crowding Out Everything Else
Contribution schedules set years ago are now consuming a rising share of state general funds. The squeeze shows up not as a pension crisis but as everything else getting slightly worse.
Media
The Press Release Refuses to Die, and Quietly Runs the News
Declared obsolete for two decades, the press release has instead become the load-bearing document of the information economy, feeding newsrooms, databases and now AI systems.
AI
Corporate Buyers Push for Standard Terms in AI Model Contracts
Procurement departments, tired of negotiating novel terms for every AI vendor, are converging on shared contract language for data handling, evaluation and exit.
Health
The Return of the Company Clinic
Employers battered by health costs are reviving an old idea: putting the doctor inside the workplace, and the modern version is outperforming its ancestor.
Markets
Retail Traders Grow Up
The meme-stock cohort did not disappear when the fever broke. It aged into the most financially engaged retail generation in decades, with the account balances to show it.
National News
States Are Writing the AI Rulebook, One Legislature at a Time
In the absence of comprehensive federal legislation, statehouses have produced a growing body of AI law, and companies are complying with the strictest version everywhere.
Business
Employee Ownership Gets a Second Look, From Sellers
Employee stock ownership plans spent decades as an ideological argument. They are being reconsidered as something plainer: a buyer who is already on site when no other buyer appears.
National News
Small Water Utilities Reach the End of Deferred Maintenance
Tens of thousands of small systems have spent a generation postponing pipe replacement. The postponement is ending on its own schedule, and the bill is arriving in towns least able to bond for it.
Business
Nearshoring Moves From Conference Talk to Freight Manifest
After years of supply chain speeches, the physical evidence has arrived: factory construction, border logistics investment and trade flows reorganizing around proximity.
Business
The Office Conversion Wave Finally Reaches the Spreadsheet Stage
After years of renderings and press releases, office-to-residential conversion is producing actual closings, and a repeatable financial template is emerging.
Business
Inside the Professional Economy of the Podcast Guest
Booking agencies, preparation coaches and clip editors have turned the podcast interview into a supply chain, one that increasingly runs on retainers.