Author: staff
The sectors of the economy that face the most difficulty in regaining all their lost jobs are the service sectors that were hit hardest by the pandemic recession: Restaurants, bars, hotels, gyms, and entertainment venues. Though college graduates often take such jobs temporarily, they typically seek out careers in professional or technical fields, where job losses were far less severe last year and are now recovering.
JetBlue creator David Neeleman is seen with a Breeze Airways aircraft. Neeleman’s latest startup carrier, which hopes to begin flying this spring, is giving up on a plan to hire only college students as flight attendants after the strategy failed to draw enough applicants. (CeanOrrett/AP)
Medina Spirit was found to have 21 picograms of betamethasone, which is sometimes used to treat pain and inflammation in horses. It was the same drug found in Baffert-trained filly Gamine, who finished third in last fall’s Kentucky Oaks before being disqualified following a test. Baffert was fined $1,500.
“The time of the outage is now approaching critical levels and if it continues to remain down we do expect an increase in East Coast gasoline and diesel prices,” said Debnil Chowdhury, IHS Markit Executive Director. The last time there was an outage of this magnitude was in 2016, he said, when gas prices rose 15 to 20 cents per gallon. But the Northeast had significantly more local refining capacity at that time, potentially intensifying any impact.
A Colonial Pipeline Co. facility is seen Dec. 11, 2016, in Baltimore. A cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown of a key pipeline operated by the company that carries gasoline and other fuel from Texas to the Northeast. (Kris Tripplaar/Sipa USA/TNS)
Wanzo had been an administrator and supervisor of vehicle services with the Illinois Secretary of State’s office. She oversaw the public service center at the Howlett Building in Springfield, where vehicle owners can pay title and registration fees, apply and pay for license plates and make sales tax payments for vehicles.
The state and city of Chicago are partnering with building owners to make vaccination clinics available to workers in major commercial buildings in downtown Chicago and other cities across Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday.
The state and city of Chicago are partnering with building owners to make vaccination clinics available to workers in major commercial buildings in downtown Chicago and other cities across Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday.
Traffic on Interstate 95 passes oil storage tanks owned by the Colonial Pipeline Co. on Sept. 8, 2008, in Linden, New Jersey. A major pipeline that transports fuels along the East Coast had to stop operations because of a cyberattack. (Mark Lennihan/AP Photo)
About 2:45 a.m., a sedan was driving east on West Jefferson Street approaching Raynor Avenue, according to a news release from the Joliet Police Department. The car failed to follow a curve in the road and drove off the road, striking a tree and a traffic signal, police said.