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Half of all public comments on open federal rules are on one Alaska oil proposal
The Bureau of Land Management's proposal on production sites in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska had 72,576 public comments on November 7, 2026, 49.4% of the 147,045 comments on all 485 federal documents then…
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The FDA's drug center approved 52 original biologics in 2025, more than twice its 2015 to 2022 pace
FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research approved 52 original biologics license applications in 2025, up from 25 in 2022 and 19 in 2015.…
Union election petitions fell 15% in 2025 and have not recovered in 2026
Workers and unions filed 1,583 petitions for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board from January to September 2025, down from 1,857…
S&P 500 insiders sold $53.9 billion in million-dollar trades, 21 times what they bought
Insiders at 386 S&P 500 companies reported $53.9 billion of open-market stock sales in single transactions of $1 million or more over the last 12…
The VA bought $14.6 billion of drugs through McKesson in fiscal 2026, about $1.2 billion a month
The Department of Veterans Affairs placed 12 monthly orders with McKesson under its pharmaceutical prime vendor contract in fiscal 2026, worth $14.6…
One investor made 59% of all S&P 500 insider stock purchases in the last 12 months
Cascade Investment, L.L.C. bought $1.58 billion of Republic Services stock on the open market across 108 trades, 59% of the $2.68 billion that S&P…
S&P 500 companies received 29% fewer US patents in 2025 than in 2019
Today's S&P 500 companies were granted 54,171 US patents in 2025, against 76,229 in 2019. IBM alone accounts for 7,212 of the 22,058 fewer grants;…
Qualcomm received more US patents in 2025 than any other S&P 500 company
Qualcomm was granted 3,876 US patents in 2025, ahead of Apple's 3,503 and Alphabet's 2,454. IBM, the leader for decades, received 2,314, down from…
NVIDIA's US patent grants rose 77.5% in a year while most big S&P 500 patent holders got fewer
NVIDIA received 914 US patents in the 12 months to November 7, 2026, against 515 in the 12 months before. Of the 91 S&P 500 companies outside finance…
Nearly half of Baltimore's distressed properties are vacant
9,760 of the 21,363 distressed parcels in Baltimore City are flagged vacant, 45.7%. In Milwaukee it is 1,334 of 10,389 (12.8%), and in Philadelphia…
Tarrant County's tax-delinquent list shrank 4.4% in 16 days
Between October 22 and November 7, 2026, Tarrant County's list of tax-delinquent parcels fell from 10,237 to 9,786, a drop of 451. Dallas County's…
Dallas County has 329 tax-delinquent properties also in foreclosure whose owner of record appears to have died
Of 17,203 tax-delinquent parcels in Dallas County, 2,413 also carry a foreclosure flag and 1,566 an estate or heir flag; 329 carry all three. Tarrant…
Verizon holds 20,104 active FCC radio licenses
Cellco Partnership (Verizon Wireless) holds more active licenses than any other organization in our FCC data; T-Mobile's licensing unit holds 15,096…
Airlines reported 20,426 cracks to the FAA since January 2025
Of 118,407 mechanical-difficulty reports filed since January 2025, 20,426 describe a crack. The parts reported most were fuselage skin (6,782), seat…
Special-needs plans grew 157% since 2020
Enrollment in Medicare special-needs plans rose from 3.27 million in January 2020 to 8.40 million in October 2026; other Medicare Advantage plans…
UnitedHealth's Medicare Advantage share fell three points in 21 months
UnitedHealth's share of Medicare Advantage enrollment fell from 28.65% in January 2025 to 25.79% in October 2026, a loss of 473,092 enrollees. Humana…
Southwest left a quarter of its domestic seats empty in 2025
Southwest filled 74.3% of its domestic seats in 2025, the lowest of any large US airline; Delta filled…
The routes that vanished, and the ones that doubled
Newark–Chicago Midway went from 322,232 passengers in 2019 to 10,282 in 2025 (-96.8%). Bozeman–Denver went from 306,176 to 667,832 (+118%), and…
What were the busiest US domestic air routes in 2025?
New York JFK–Los Angeles was the busiest US domestic route in 2025, with 2,912,963 passengers, followed by LaGuardia–Chicago O'Hare (2,769,621) and…
The governors' money race is a dead heat: $216.8M vs $215.8M
The Republican Governors Association reported $216.8M in contributions in 2025-26 and the Democratic Governors Association $215.8M. The DGA had three…
Meta put $45 million into a single political group
IRS filings show one contributor to the American Technology Excellence Project since January 2025: Meta Platforms, $45,000,000. Meta also gave…
More than a quarter of Mississippi tax returns claim the Earned Income Tax Credit
26.9% of Mississippi returns claimed the EITC in 2023, the highest share of any state; Louisiana was 24.2%, Georgia…
East Austin's average income tripled in ten years
Average AGI in Austin's 78721 rose from $29,359 in 2013 to $90,344 in 2023 (+208%), and in 78702 from $41,310 to $122,883. Palm Beach (+315%) grew…
The average tax return in Palm Beach 33480 reports $2.7 million
ZIP 33480 (Palm Beach, Florida) had the highest average adjusted gross income in 2023: $2,746,444 across 5,900 returns, half of it from capital…
America's biggest move: 34,872 people from Los Angeles to San Bernardino
The largest single county-to-county flow in 2022-23 was Los Angeles to San Bernardino, 34,872 people. Six of the top ten were within Texas metros,…
Florida gained $15.5 billion in income from movers in one year
People moving to Florida from other states in 2022-23 brought $15.5 billion more in adjusted gross income than people leaving took out. Texas gained…
Los Angeles lost a net 81,742 people to other counties in one year
In 2022-23, Los Angeles County lost 81,742 more people to other US counties than it gained, taking $4.1 billion in income with them. Cook County…
Dallas to Oklahoma City: $380 for 175 miles
The most expensive busy routes per mile are short hub hops: DFW–OKC averages $380 (217.1¢ a mile) and LAX–San Diego $233. Many of these passengers…
The routes where airfares more than doubled
The average fare from Baltimore to Myrtle Beach went from $74 in 2019 to $182; Colorado Springs to Las Vegas from $81 to…
Airfares rose 8% since 2019 while prices rose 24%
On the median route with 40,000+ passengers, the average fare in the four quarters to mid-2025 was 8.4% above 2019. Consumer prices rose 24.3% over…
Planes now wait 28.8 minutes to take off at JFK, the longest since at least 2018
The average taxi-out at JFK was 28.8 minutes in 2025, up from 21.1 in 2021; O'Hare's rose from 20.8 in 2022 to 28.9 so far in 2026. Atlanta is…
The flight that is late 61% of the time: United 1182, Columbus to Chicago
United 1182 from Columbus to O'Hare arrived 15+ minutes late on 61.2% of its 389 flights since January 2025, averaging 53.9 minutes late. Frontier…
DFW is America's most-delayed big airport: 27.5% of its flights arrive late
Since January 2025, 27.53% of flights leaving Dallas/Fort Worth arrived 15+ minutes late, the worst of any airport with 20,000+ departures. Chicago…
Venezuelans' asylum grant rate fell from 56% to 7%
In fiscal 2024, 56.4% of decided Venezuelan asylum cases were granted; in fiscal 2026, 6.8%. Indians fell from 60.8% to 4.9%, Chinese from 72.1% to…
Same law, different courtroom: 59% of asylum cases granted in Sacramento, 0.6% in Baton Rouge
In fiscal 2025-26, Sacramento's immigration court granted 59.2% of decided asylum cases and Houston's 3.1% (549 grants, 17,431 denials). 4 judges…
The asylum grant rate fell from 43% to 7% in two years
Immigration judges granted 37,126 asylum applications and denied 48,540 in fiscal 2024, a 43.3% grant rate. In fiscal 2026 they granted 10,903 and…
Colorado dentists carry discipline records at nearly three times the rate of physicians
177.8 of every 1,000 Colorado dentist licenses carry a discipline record, against 64.4 for physicians. Chiropractors (125.5) and pharmacists (100.1)…
Washington's new-nurse licenses fell 58% from their 2022 peak
Washington issued 21,541 registered-nurse licenses in 2022 and 8,959 in 2025. Illinois went the other way: 10,554 in 2015, 20,164 in 2025.…
Fresno has 180 assisted-living beds per 1,000 seniors; some rural counties have under 10
Fresno, San Joaquin and Solano counties each have about 180 licensed beds per 1,000 residents aged 75+. Several rural counties in Illinois, New York…
Most rated daycares sit at the bottom of their state's star scale
In Pennsylvania 2,966 providers are at STAR 1, the lowest of four levels, against 2,280 at STAR 4. In Colorado 1,380 are at level 1 of 5 and 181 at…
Texas foster agencies and residential centers average more than twice the violations of daycares
Texas general residential operations averaged 7.8 cited violations over three years and child-placing agencies 7.9, against 3.0 for licensed…
California's Central Valley has one licensed child-care slot for every five young children
Kern County has 18.6 licensed slots per 100 children under 5, Tulare 17.1, Stanislaus 18.1. The lowest in our data is Juniata County, Pennsylvania,…
Washington's layoff notices rose 156% in 2025, led by orchards and tech
WARN notices in Washington covered 31,257 workers in 2025, against 12,195 in 2024. The largest filers were Gebbers Farms (3,465), Microsoft (3,202),…
Tyson's plant cuts put more workers on WARN notices than Amazon, Meta or Microsoft
Tyson Foods notices in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska covered 9,488 workers in 2025-26. Amazon's covered 6,468, Meta's 6,145 and Microsoft's 4,084.…
The biggest layoff notice of 2025 came from a staffing company: 16,132 workers
Tend Exchange Subsidiary and Delaware Tender Staffing filed a WARN notice in California on May 20, 2025 covering 16,132 workers, more than any other…
Half of all copyright suits now target anonymous internet subscribers
4,111 of 8,084 copyright suits filed in 2025 named an unidentified "Doe" or "subscriber assigned IP address" as defendant, up from 1,951 of 4,211 in…
The most-sued party in federal court: whoever runs Social Security
Since 2021 the Social Security commissioner, under five names in the records, was the defendant in 68,322 federal cases, more than the United States…
Immigration detainees' habeas petitions rose 20-fold in 2025
9,156 habeas corpus petitions from immigration detainees were filed in federal court in 2025, against 446 in 2024. The previous high was 2,286 in…
How many demolition permits does Chicago issue a year? Half as many as in 2015
Chicago issued 1,210 demolition permits in 2015 and 661 in 2025. Los Angeles issues far more: 1,871 in…
Seattle permitted 44% fewer new homes in 2025 than in 2021
Building permits in Seattle added 16,123 housing units in 2021 and 8,972 in 2025. 2023 was the low, at…
Austin's rooftop-solar permits have halved since 2022
Austin issued 2,479 permits mentioning solar in 2022 and 1,202 in 2025. Chicago peaked at 2,363 in 2024 and fell to 1,929; Philadelphia went from…
NYC inspectors found mice at 7,225 restaurants since 2024
Evidence of mice was cited in 11,066 New York City restaurant inspections since January 2024, at 7,225 different restaurants. Rats were cited in…
The places that keep failing: 26 failed inspections at one Boston hot dog stand
Boston's most-failed food business since 2023 is Dans Mini Dogs at 1010 Massachusetts Ave, with 26 failed inspections. In Chicago, JJ Fish on S…
Chicago schools fail food inspections more often than restaurants
Since 2024, 23.8% of Chicago school kitchen inspections ended in "Fail", against 17.6% for restaurants. Long-term care facilities (22.7%) also fail…
Healthcare is Colorado's biggest lobbying industry, more than double education
389 of Colorado's 2,549 lobbying clients registered in 2025 list healthcare/medical as their industry, against 169 for…
A casino company was New York's biggest lobbying client in 2025
Genting New York paid $3.5M to lobbyists in 2025, more than the Greater New York Hospital Association ($2.8M). Bally's and TSG Coney Island…
Colorado lobbying spending has doubled since 2017
Lobbyist compensation reported in Colorado rose from $43.2M in 2017 to $88.8M in 2025. Washington rose from $55.7M (2018) to $93.7M, and New York…
A quarter of Colorado's campaign money from individuals came from out of state
26.6% of individual contributions to Colorado campaigns in 2025-26 came from donors outside Colorado, the highest share in our data; New York was the…
DraftKings and FanDuel put $22 million into one Nebraska committee
DK Crown Holdings (DraftKings) gave $10.4 million and FanDuel $11.6 million to Tax Relief Nebraska in 2025-26. The same two companies gave $7.5…
The biggest donors in state politics mostly paid for their own campaigns
The largest givers in our ten states in 2025-26 were JB Pritzker, who put $90.5 million into JB for Governor, and Gerald Griffin, who gave $62.4…
The drilling bust: Pennsylvania spuds down 88% from 2008, and only New Mexico is back
Wells spudded (drilling started) in 2025 against each state's peak year: Pennsylvania down 88%, Kansas 84%, Colorado 84%, North Dakota 67%. New…
Two companies hold 11,000 of California's 29,900 idle wells
Aera Energy has 6,376 wells in "Idle" status in California and Chevron has 5,103. California Resources' two entities hold 4,703 more. Wyoming has…
Pennsylvania lists 33,000 abandoned wells; one county has 6,500
Pennsylvania's well inventory lists 33,431 wells as abandoned or orphaned, the most of any state we cover. Venango County alone has 6,516. Oklahoma…
Chipotle holds more on-premise alcohol licenses than any other company in our nine states
Chipotle holds on-premise alcohol licenses at 1,284 restaurants in our nine states, more than three times Chili's owner Brinker (410). Counting every…
Texas has issued fewer new on-premise alcohol licenses every year since 2023
New on-premise alcohol licenses at new premises in Texas fell from 3,549 in 2023 to 3,080 in 2024 and 2,873 in 2025. In the last 12 months (Nov 2025…
West Hollywood has one place licensed to serve alcohol for every 184 residents
West Hollywood, California has the most places licensed to serve alcohol per resident of any city of 25,000+ people in the nine states we cover: 191…
Decided by 99 votes: the closest races of 2026
The closest race in our results is North Carolina's 5th district: Chuck Hubbard leads Virginia Foxx by 99 votes out of 285,498 (0.03 points), with…
The pollster nobody cites beat them all in 2026
Survey 160 was the most accurate pollster of the 2026 Senate and governor races : four final polls (Minnesota and Ohio, Senate and governor), average…
How accurate were the 2026 midterm polls? They missed the Democratic surge by 4 points
Final-stretch polls understated Democrats in 168 of 215 cases. Across 216 polls in 31 Senate and governor races, the average poll was 4.1 points too…
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