The Metropolitan Opera has seen donations decline by a third, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is one of many newspapers on the brink of disappearing, the domestic automotive industry should disappear, galleries are closing, the US Postal Service is seeking to eliminate Saturday deliveries (boo) , and the unemployment rate is ticking higher and higher. But the Philadelphia Phillies have seen a 20% increase in their season ticket base, up from 20,000 in 2008 to 24,000 in 2009. Impressive, really.
Barack Obama signed his first piece of legislature as president: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which extends the time limit for women to file pay discrimination claims. Nice touch of symbolism but how about the Paycheck Fairness Act, which might help make wage discrimination against women a relic?
