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Significant Digits For Monday, May 11, 2015

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. To receive this as an email newsletter, please subscribe. 4 percent That’s Alabama’s existing tax on rentals of “tangible personal property.”  The state’s department of revenue wants to extend that tax to rentals on, say, Netflix, which generally speaking is pretty […]

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Significant Digits For Monday, May 11, 2015

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. To receive this as an email newsletter, please subscribe. 4 percent That’s Alabama’s existing tax on rentals of “tangible personal property.”  The state’s department of revenue wants to extend that tax to rentals on, say, Netflix, which generally speaking is pretty […]

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Significant Digits For Thursday, May 7, 2015

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. To receive this as an email newsletter, please subscribe. 4th season On Thursday Fox announced the cancellation of “The Mindy Project,” but distraught fans were told nearly instantaneously that the show would be moving to Hulu. TV in 2015, where […]

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Significant Digits For Thursday, May 7, 2015

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. To receive this as an email newsletter, please subscribe. 4th season On Thursday Fox announced the cancellation of “The Mindy Project,” but distraught fans were told nearly instantaneously that the show would be moving to Hulu. TV in 2015, where […]

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Significant Digits For Friday, April 24, 2015

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. To receive this as an email newsletter, please subscribe. 5 ejections Apparently not realizing that NHL teams were still playing, the Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox sought to appease North American sports fans’ desire for timid shoving and […]

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