It could be worse We think we have it bad here in Portland, but many cities have it much worse. According to this BLS report, Portland clocks in at 269/369 in employment rates - ahead of struggling cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Not to mention economically crippled cities Detroit and Flint. ...

After a day or two of playing with the numbers, he came back to me with an interesting picture: Based on its current level of online ad revenue, he says, the L.A. Times could support a staff of about 275 people at their present salaries, and even offer a slight bump in benefits. This factors in offi...

Good news for a change: So many Americans claim no religion at all (15%, up from 8% in 1990), that this category now outranks every other major U.S. religious group except Catholics and Baptists. In a nation that has long been mostly Christian, “the challenge to Christianity … does not come ...

Includes some notes about who got it right. The Audit wants to know. What role did the press play in diffusing financial warnings in the years leading up to the current crisis? We can’t answer that question in its entirety—especially not in one post—but we can offer an example for your conside...

One of every 50 American children experiences homelessness, according to a new report that says most states have inadequate plans to address the worsening and often-overlooked problem. The report being released Tuesday by the National Center on Family Homelessness gives Connecticut the best ranking....

Just kidding. The media gives the Vatican a free pass on their pedophile-ring as usual: A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic chur...

This is a pretty good list: From Hell Or Else Sleeper The Invisibles 100% American Flagg The Dark Knight Returns Miracleman DC: The New Frontier Full Story: io9 Off the top of my head, I’d add Stray Bullets. What would you add? (via The Agitator)...

A Canadian filmmaker plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye to make documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in society. Rob Spence, 36, who lost an eye in an accident as a teen-ager, said his so-called Project Eyeborg is to have the camera, a battery and a wireless ...

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The Arizona Guardian and Heat City are two examples of web-only news sites started by recently unemployed journalists. The Arizona Guardian is run by four Phoenix-based journalists who were recently laid off from the East Valley Tribune. The Guardian covers legislative issues and other aspects of th...