The State Climbing The Fastest In Millionaire Rankings Has No BMW Dealership; It Also Doesn't Have A Lamborghini Dealership (Yet)

A reader sent me this link. RealTimeEconomics is reporting:

The state making the fastest climb up the millionaire rankings doesn’t have a single Tiffany or Saks Fifth Avenue store.

The closest BMW dealership is a six-hour drive from the capital. Welcome to North Dakota, which jumped 14 spots in the annual rankings of millionaire households per capita released by Phoenix Marketing International. The firm derives its figures from a combination of data from the Federal Reserve, Census Bureau and polling firm Nielsen Co. 

I assume The Minneapolis Star Tribune will be posting this story on their front page later this week. LOL.

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I track the demise of mainstream media here.  The Los Angeles Times is reporting:

Significant layoffs hit the newsrooms Thursday at the Orange County Register and the Riverside Press-Enterprise, a troubling sign for the Aaron Kushner-owned publications.

Exact numbers have not been released at the Register, although the cuts there are reported to number roughly 35 people. The paper’s editor, Ken Brusic, and most other top editorial managers have departed, according to multiple sources in the newsroom who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak. Rob Curley, deputy editor of local news, has assumed the editor position, at least temporarily.

Cutbacks at the Press-Enterprise, meanwhile, totaled 39, according to a memo circulated internally late Wednesday and reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. The reductions were not limited to the newsroom, but at least a dozen copy editors have been laid off, according to numerous individuals at the newspaper. Affected employees are being given severance of one week’s pay per year of employment.

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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that light rail will come close, but it will not reach LAX, the city's airport. Too expensive to build. This is an old story. Still being studied. The studies will probably take as long as studying the Keystone XL 2.0 North.