Tag: Gap

The Grit Gap

Parties are like parents: They want their people to develop grit. How do Democrats continue to win special elections and outperform expectations despite having a deeply unpopular member of their own party in the White House? They’ve got grit. Up, down, or tied, core Democratic constituencies keep turning out to vote. How did Donald Trump […]

Gazprom loss shows struggle to fill EU gas sales gap with China

By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin-owned energy kingpin Gazprom, once Russia’s most profitable company, could face a long period of poor performance as it struggles to fill the gap of lost European gas sales with its domestic market and Chinese exports. The company recently announced an annual net loss of $7 billion, its first […]

What is the mortgage gap? It may turn you into a lifelong renter

Adam Bosch crunches numbers for a living, converting data sets into reports that tell the story of the challenges facing the people of the Hudson Valley. Bosch, a former journalist, is president and CEO of Pattern for Progress, a Newburgh-based research institute tracking trends across the nine-county Hudson Valley: Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, […]

Sen. Mitchell case reveals grace gap for the powerless

On a phone call with local artist and activist D.A. Bullock earlier this week, I imagined what might have happened if I’d faced similar accusations leveled last month against state Sen. Nicole Mitchell after an alleged incident at her stepmother’s home in Detroit Lakes. She was arrested and faces first-degree burglary charges and calls for […]

Black homeowners start to close gap in property values

Jelani Bayi, seen with his dog, Dior, bought this four-bedroom house in Detroit’s Rosedale Park neighborhood for $275,000 in 2021. Like many Black-majority areas, his ZIP code has seen big gains recently as the housing shortage intensifies and state and federal efforts to end bias in valuations of Black-owned homes progress. (Valaurian Waller/Bridge Detroit) Black […]