--- title: What's positive nowadays? description: "Major news outlets thrive on negative news. Even when there's something positive in the story, there's a negative element to it. No wonder so many people don't bother reading the \"news\" that's published." --- [Dan's Desk](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/author/dan-gallatin) - [lawyer](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/lawyer) - [hugo](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/hugo) - [MN](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/mn) - [law](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/law) - [attorney](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/attorney) - [legal](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/legal) [Subscribe](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/whats-positive-nowadays#) 08/12/2020 # What's positive nowadays? - - - - - [mailto:?subject=What%27s%20positive%20nowadays%3F&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gallatin-law.com%2Fblog%2Fwhats-positive-nowadays](mailto:?subject=What%27s%20positive%20nowadays%3F&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gallatin-law.com%2Fblog%2Fwhats-positive-nowadays) Major news outlets thrive on negative news. Even when there's something positive in the story, there's a negative element to it. No wonder so many people don't bother reading the "news" that's published. Here are some tidbits I find positive or interesting. The country's trade deficit went down by 7.5% in June. That's excellent progress and makes our country a stronger international economic power. Minnesota's number of COVID cases reported on August 4 went down to 602. In the preceding days the number of cases was 613, 759, 725, 771, and 745. The National Hockey League has been holding practices and games for about 4 weeks. In that time they have not had one single case of coronavirus. I sorely missed watching live sports, particularly hockey! On March 23rd the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 18,591. On August 5th it sits at 27,109. That's basically a 50% increase! Golf courses are filled again. They are benefitting from being one of the few permitted "group" activities. Just a couple years ago there was talk of golf becoming extinct. I hope you enjoy this slower time and hope you are finding positivity wherever you are. - [covid19](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/covid19), - [positive](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/positive), - [trade deficit](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/tag/trade-deficit) ![Dan Gallatin](https://www.gallatin-law.com/hubfs/assets-mjfw/site%20images/Dans-Desk.jpg) ## [Dan Gallatin](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/author/dan-gallatin) Dan is a lifelong resident of Minnesota. Born in St. Paul, Dan spent many of his formative years growing up there before moving to White Bear Lake. After graduating from White Bear Lake, Dan spent four glorious years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a degree in two majors. Dan worked as a Senior Investigator at the Minnesota Department of Commerce for several years after graduating from college. During his final years Dan attended William Mitchell College of Law while still working full-time. During this exhausting 3 ½ year period Dan honed his skills in becoming an efficient, to-the-point legal practitioner. While at Madison Dan met his wife, Tonya, and together they moved to Minnesota to plant their roots. Dan and Tonya have two amazing, unique children and reside in Hugo. ### CONNECT WITH ME - ## Related Posts [05/14/2020 The Positives of Our Current State of Affairs So much is going on right now that is depressing, negative, and downright awful. We are on something like day 63 of this shutdown period. Over 2 full… Read Post ](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/the-positives-of-our-current-state-of-affairs) [03/28/2019 Business Communications: What to do and what not to do So much of business is about communication. Sometimes the communication is good, sometimes not so good. By that I mean there is clarity in the… Read Post ](https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/business-communications-what-to-do-and-what-not-to-do) ### Subscribe Here! ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Dan Gallatin", "url" : "https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/author/dan-gallatin" }, "dateModified" : "2020-08-31T20:18:45.215Z", "datePublished" : "2020-08-12T14:59:00.000Z", "headline" : "What's positive nowadays?", "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://www.gallatin-law.com/blog/whats-positive-nowadays", "@type" : "WebPage" }, "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "url" : "https://www.gallatin-law.com/hubfs/logos/Gallatin-Logo-654x84.png" }, "name" : "Gallatin Law, PLLC" } } ```