Your customized headlines for Mon, Apr 9, 2012

Winning the Democratic nomination for Maryland's 6th Congressional District last week convinced John Delaney it was time to make a bittersweet decision: resign as executive chairman of the commercial finance company he founded, CapitalSource.

The historical analogy came easily to the former teacher of constitutional law.

"A law that was passed by Congress on an economic issue, like health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce — a law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner. Right?" President Obama told a gathering of newspaper editors last week.

Frances China needed to learn how to use a computer.

So the 57-year-old woman from Northwest Washington turned to the best option she had: her grandson Jilani. The 11-year-old helped her create a PowerPoint presentation and learn about the machinations of Microsoft Office.

At tip-off of a recent Charlotte Bobcats game, it was easier to take note of who wasn't in attendance than who was. The arena was maybe one-third full and the owner's box was empty.

As play began, a few more fans found their seats, but there would be no owner sighting. Michael Jordan likes watching on television, but on this night, he wasn't even in town. Instead, Jordan was in Las Vegas, at the Aria Resort and Casino, hosting a celebrity golf tournament with Ashton Kutcher serving as his caddie.

Another bank executive has penned an searing indictment of Wall Street. But Robert Wilmers, chief executive officer of M&T Bank Corporation, isn't parachuting out of the industry. Instead, he believes he's trying to save it.

In March, the unemployment rate dropped from 8.3 percent from 8.2 percent. But that wasn't because the economy added an enormous number of jobs.

Rather, as Sarah Kliff pointed out, it was largely due to the fact that 164,000 fewer people were actively looking for work — and they don't count in the unemployment tallies. That raises the perennial question: Where did all these people go?