Publisher Aaron Kushner insists that he doesn't care whether people read the Register in print or online - just so long as they're subscribers. What he refuses to accept is that the traditional subscription model is dying.

Well, breakthrough is pushing it, but investors were determined to look at the bright side. The Dow finished up 323 points, to 15,126.

This is not much of a government town, so the impact has involved inconvenience more than dislocation. But should the impasse drag out for several more weeks there's bound to be an economic cost.

Here's the first big indication that Freedom Communications and its CEO, Aaron Kushner, have designs on the Southern California market that go beyond the flagship OC Register.

Much will be made of her becoming the first woman Fed chairman, as it should, but the real story is what a great selection this is - a remarkable pivot from what would have been a terrible selection in Larry Summers.

So a bunch of dudes are about to wreck the global economy and then hand the job of putting it back together to the first female fed chair.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) October 9, 2013

This is the month when TV stations will decide whether to renew the daytime talker after the summer of 2014, and the outlook is not good.

So much for Wall Street ho-humming the debt ceiling issue. The Dow fell 160 points, which means that the blue chip index has dropped around 1,000 points in the past three weeks.

Which means that the mayor, along with his new film czar, Tom Sherak, will have a hard time convincing state lawmakers that Hollywood needs additional giveaways.

Most everybody told me that Knatz did not have a great relationship with the port tenants. The laundry list of gripes ranges from an often-difficult lease negotiation process with both large and small tenants to a limited focus on sales and marketing.

The ongoing recovery has been marked by a lack of churn - that is fewer workers are quitting and fewer are being hired. Economists are paying attention.