Leaders of companies like Goldman Sachs and JetBlue implored Mayor Bill de Blasio to take more decisive action to halt the city’s decline.Mayor Bill de Blasio urged the city’s business leaders to help in the effort to get more relief funds from Washington and new borrowing capacity from the state.Credit...John Minchillo/Associated PressSept. 10, 2020Updated 7:10…
Bill Donner of Seattle makes labels for a living, so he doesn’t toss them out lightly. He takes it to heart when he brands city leaders MIA when protesters took over his neighborhood. He says he knows dereliction of duty when he sees it, and he has joined a lawsuit to hold Seattle officials responsible…
CARBONDALE (WSIL) -- After a significant rise in COVID-19 cases in Jackson County, two more Carbondale restaurants are temporarily shutting their doors. Tres Hombres closed early on Tuesday evening after receiving confirmation that an employee tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement on its Facebook page, management says the restaurant is severely understaffed and will…
The Paycheck Protection Program, or the PPP, criticized for helping many that don’t qualify as a small business, this month named all its large-dollar loan recipients.The program has delivered more than $500 billion in close to 5 million loans to businesses across the United States, according to the latest report from the Small Business Administration.…
Pedestrians in Harvard Yard in 2019. Schools and businesses have gone to court to stop the Trump administration from barring online-only international students from entering or staying in the United States. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Krupa/AP Pedestrians in Harvard Yard in 2019. Schools and businesses have gone to court to stop the…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…