ea Chris Cornell’s widow fires back at Soundgarden members in escalating legal war, says they’re tying to ‘browbeat’ her into giving up music By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 22:40:30 +0000 Chris Cornell’s widow is firing back at her husband’s Soundgarden bandmates, calling the lawsuit they filed against her Wednesday an attempt to “browbeat” her into giving up “copyrighted works.” Full Article
ea Seminal rocker Little Richard, singer of classic “Tutti Frutti” and “Lucille,” dead at 87 By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:37:08 +0000 The wildly influential singer and pianist established rock ’n’ roll as a genre with just one rule — there are no rules. Full Article
ea Search for pair of teens who vanished while tubing continues in Utah By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:20:41 +0000 The desperate search for two teens who vanished while tubing in Utah continued on Saturday, days after the pair were swept up in an intense storm. Full Article
ea 'Lean on Me' - Limerick online voucher initiative By www.rte.ie Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 08:36:12 +0000 Their doors may be closed, but Limerick businesses are receiving support from their customers who are generating cashflow by buying vouchers online. Full Article Business
ea 374 staff at the IAA earned over €100,000 last year By www.rte.ie Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:00:14 +0000 The numbers of staff earning over €100,000 at the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) last year increased by 31 to 374. Full Article Business
ea Immigration detention is a public health hazard By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 19:54:11 +0000 As physicians who work in New York City hospitals, we are witnessing how COVID-19 is ravaging the communities we serve. The only way to slow this pandemic is to stop the transmission of the disease. Yet despite everything we know about how the virus spreads and the unprecedented sacrifices workers have made to slow the spread, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to endanger the lives of over 40,000 immigrants in more than 200 jails and prisons nationally. Most people in immigration detention have committed no criminal offense and have been deemed by ICE to pose no danger, yet they are held arbitrarily pending disposition of their asylum claims or deportation orders. Full Article
ea Readers sound off on a historic game, Trump and blue laws By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 07:00:00 +0000 Manhattan: With no sports to watch, I’m relying on my memory for gratification. My greatest sports memory happens to coincide with the great moment in New York Knicks’ history, which happened 50 years ago today, on May 8, 1970, when the team won its first championship. Full Article
ea How to save the world: A VE Day salute to the men and women who defeated Hitler By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 08:00:00 +0000 The monster who started it, Hitler, was dead, with a coward’s bullet to the head. Also gone was FDR, the man who mobilized a nation and built a worldwide coalition to defeat Germany. As were millions of men who fought in the second war to end all wars to crush an insane regime that had murdered millions of civilian men, women and children, Jew and gentile. Churchill, who stood sometimes alone against the threat, would soon be turned out by the voters. Full Article
ea Losing jobs, saving jobs: As unemployment soars, the nation and individual states try to balance health and economic concerns By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 08:10:00 +0000 The patient, laid up in the ICU, gets sicker. Thursday, 3.2 million more people joined the ranks of the unemployed, bringing to 33.5 million the number of Americans who’ve lost jobs since mid-March. Believe it: One in five of those employed before this living, dying hell began is now seeking jobless benefits. Full Article
ea Questioning Tara Reade’s story doesn’t make one a rape apologist: On Joe Biden and #MeToo By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000 Over almost three decades prosecuting criminals, I’ve been threatened, had a Santeria curse put on me, and been called a “fu--ing a--hole” on more occasions than I can count. But until my column for USA Today last week, “Why I’m skeptical about Reade’s sexual assault claim against Biden,” I’d never been called a “rape apologist.” Full Article
ea Racialized violence never takes a break: On the killing of Ahmaud Arbery By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:16:03 +0000 Early May weather finally brought spring relief to my family weary from weeks of dreary weather and sheltering in place. Inexplicably a dance party had broken out; the boys, giddy from the arrival of two rabbits — pandemic pets — were dancing with their grandmother as my wife and I looked on, sipping evening cocktails. Then an absentminded Twitter check confronted me with the shocking video of Ahmaud Arbery, a young black Georgian, being hunted down and killed by two white men. Full Article
ea Readers sound off on struggling small businesses, social distancing policing and solving homelessness By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:00:00 +0000 Lynbrook, L.I.: The news outlets have not covered the way that the smallest small businesses have been overlooked during the pandemic. As a Schedule C tax filer, I am eligible to collect Pandemic Unemployment Assistance under the CARES Act. I applied for PUA on March 16. I have been certifying for benefits every week. This entire time, my online account with the state Department of Labor says that my case is still pending. Full Article
ea Justice extended, not denied: Gov. Cuomo rightly extends the deadline under which Child Victims Act survivors can face their By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:05:00 +0000 Last Feb. 14, Gov. Cuomo signed the Child Victims Act into law. He did it in the newsroom of the Daily News, because it was this paper that, over many years, spotlighted the wrenching cases of people abused as children, perversely prevented from seeking justice as adults. Full Article
ea Distance learning: Social-distance policing is racially skewed; how to fix it By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:10:00 +0000 Seen plenty of people on sidewalks or in parks gallivanting without masks and clustering less than six feet apart? Of course you have, no matter the racial, religious or ethnic composition of the neighborhood; it’s happening everywhere, especially on nice days. Full Article
ea If dairy is essential, why aren’t my rights? A N.Y. farmworker’s plea By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000 I am proud that companies and farms are donating milk to many people. I am proud because I am one of the workers who helps produce that milk. Full Article
ea Reggie Miller, the dream opponent for the Knicks, was made for the bright lights of New York By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 13:30:00 +0000 There were two Reggies in New York City. Full Article
ea Ex-NBA player Shannon Brown arrested for shooting at people he thought were breaking into his home By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 21:53:49 +0000 Former NBA guard Shannon Brown was arrested recently after shooting a rifle in a mixup at his home. Full Article
ea Reggie Miller, the dream opponent for the Knicks, was made for the bright lights of New York By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 13:30:00 +0000 There were two Reggies in New York City. Full Article
ea ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ house is for sale in Baltimore By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:00:30 +0000 The Fells Point house that played Meg Ryan’s character’s home in 1993's “Sleepless in Seattle" is for sale, with an asking price of $575,000. Full Article
ea Dwyane Wade lists Miami Beach mansion for $32.5 million By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:56:11 +0000 Dwayne Wade's home features a chef-caliber kitchen, multiple formal and informal living areas, a master suite, wine room, elevator, professional theater and — of course — a basketball court. Full Article
ea SEE IT: Video shows random attack on real estate agent in Los Angeles: ‘Seeing my legs in the air, it’s like a movie’ By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 18:31:16 +0000 A Los Angeles real estate agent was shoved backwards off a stairway and pinned to the ground by an unknown open house visitor who flashed a chilling smile at a security camera seconds earlier. Full Article
ea In UN building, Trump sees a real estate deal that got away By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:10:53 +0000 Trump vividly recalls the overtures he made to rebuild the 39-story tower in the early 2000s and posits that he could have done a better job with the $2.3 billion project, which took about three years longer than anticipated and came in more than $400 million over budget. Full Article
ea Baseball great Mike Piazza’s new home base: A $5.6 million South Florida condo By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:00:20 +0000 Hall of Famer and 12-time All Star Mike Piazza buys a three-bedroom condominium at The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach for $5.6 million. The 3,838-square-foot condo has views of Surprise Lake and Biscayne Bay. Full Article
ea Georgia mall featured in ‘Stranger Things’ to go up for sale By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:14:22 +0000 Most of the Georgia mall heavily featured in the latest season of Netflix's "Stranger Things" is going up for sale. Full Article
ea Owner of floating B&B ready to move on By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:22:48 +0000 Liz Miller plans to pack up with her fiance, a St. Paul Public Works employee, and run a hostel-like inn on a Panamanian island just south of Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. Full Article
ea The last home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright sells in Arizona for nearly $1.7 million. Take a look inside. By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:21:53 +0000 Out of nearly 20 bids at a public auction for the Norman Lykes House, the winning bid came from a man who lives out of state, Heritage Auctions told The Associated Press. Full Article
ea Pending home sales reached a 21-month high in September By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:33:19 +0000 More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in September, a sign that the housing market is still benefiting from lower mortgage rates. Full Article
ea The world’s largest Starbucks opens tomorrow in Chicago. Here’s what to expect if you go, from rare beans to coffee cocktails. By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:52:26 +0000 The Reserve Roastery Chicago opens Friday, transforming the former Crate & Barrel space into five floors of coffee wonderland. Full Article
ea Redevelopment deal reached for former St. Paul Ford plant By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:42:20 +0000 A redevelopment deal has been reached for the former Ford Motor Co. plant in St. Paul that would feature thousands of new homes powered by renewable energy, officials announced Tuesday. Full Article
ea New York to probe claims of biased behavior by real estate agents By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:57:38 +0000 New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating allegations of racially discriminatory tactics by Long Island real estate agents as described in a sweeping Newsday report. Full Article
ea Orlando housing: As Baby Boomers die, area may have too many excess homes By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 14:54:09 +0000 Over the next 20 years more than a quarter of the nation’s currently owner-occupied homes will be on the market as owners pass on with Orlando being one of the top impacted areas. Full Article
ea ‘Windy City Rehab’ team facing multiple lawsuits, adding to HGTV show’s troubles By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:37:11 +0000 There’s more trouble for the team behind the popular HGTV series “Windy City Rehab.” Though Season 2 is expected to premiere later this year, the TV stars face multiple lawsuits, and they are starting to turn on each other. Full Article
ea Smells impacting sales, rules against growing: How the real estate market is influenced by legal marijuana By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:03:14 +0000 A new National Association of Realtors report revealed the ways that legalizing marijuana has impacted real estate. Full Article
ea ‘They slap lipstick on a pig’: What Chicago real estate experts think of the HGTV effect and ‘Windy City Rehab’ woes By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:00:40 +0000 Chicago real estate experts bust myths portrayed by home improvement shows, from actors subbing in as buyers to unrealistically low renovation costs. Full Article
ea First signs of disruption appear in housing; markets ‘calm’ By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:00:12 +0000 The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed as it continues to spread across the world. Here is a look at some of the latest developments Wednesday related to the global economy, particular economic sectors, and the workplace. Full Article
ea Real estate deals tap technology for virtual tours, closings | Photos By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000 Thanks to virtual tours, online mortgage applications, remote notarization and tech tools like Facetime, real estate agents in South Florida are still conducting business these days. Full Article
ea Canceled open houses and virtual home tours. Realtors pivot amid pandemic to keep selling homes By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:00:00 +0000 Locally, the housing market got off to a great start at the beginning of the year, and all signs seemed to point to a bright spring season. And then the coronavirus struck. Full Article
ea Virtual tours? A buyers’ market later? How coronavirus is affecting South Florida real estate. By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:36:22 +0000 A look at how real estate in South Florida has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, from virtual tours and technology playing larger in the home-buying process to how the market is expected to react. Full Article
ea ‘Be prepared for the Wild West’: As real estate’s busy season winds up, here’s how to buy or sell a home during the coronavirus pandemic By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 16:01:48 +0000 Real estate data suggests the market took a downturn in March that might already be rebounding. Here's what experts predict. Full Article
ea Australian jockey banned for head-butting fellow rider By www.rte.ie Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:06:46 +0000 Australian jockey Luke Tarrant has been given a six-month ban after head-butting fellow rider Larry Cassidy during an altercation at Doomben. Full Article Racing
ea Japanese Guineas whet appetite for European Classics By www.rte.ie Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:38:26 +0000 The Flat racing calendar in the northern hemisphere remains mired in uncertainty, but in one jurisdiction the first Classics of the season have been staged as the coronavirus pandemic rages. Full Article Racing
ea Southern Legend edges Beauty Generation in Hong Kong By www.rte.ie Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 08:41:50 +0000 Southern Legend denied Beauty Generation in a thrilling renewal of the FWD Champions Mile at Sha Tin. Full Article Racing
ea Un De Sceaux to spend retirement in France By www.rte.ie Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:19:43 +0000 Multiple Grade One-winning chaser Un De Sceaux left the yard of Willie Mullins for the final time on Monday. Full Article Racing
ea Cheltenham should not have gone ahead, admits HRI chief By www.rte.ie Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:57:03 +0000 The Cheltenham horse racing festival should probably not have been allowed to go ahead last month shortly before Britain went into lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Horse Racing Ireland CEO Brian Kavanagh has said. Full Article Racing
ea Koeman issues upbeat update after health scare By www.rte.ie Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 15:46:00 +0000 Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman is feeling "fit as a fiddle" after undergoing a heart procedure in Amsterdam at the weekend, the former Everton and Southampton boss confirmed. Full Article Soccer
ea Ferdinand fears Premier League faces thankless task By www.rte.ie Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 09:14:39 +0000 Former Manchester United and England defender Rio Ferdinand believes there is no viable resolution to the resumption of the 2019-20 season that will satisfy all 20 Premier League clubs. Full Article Soccer
ea South Korean K-League returns behind closed doors By www.rte.ie Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 10:38:53 +0000 European soccer leagues got a glimpse of what the future might hold after football finally returned with the start of the South Korean K-League on Friday. Full Article Soccer
ea Inequality of Fear and Self-Quarantine: Is There a Trade-off between GDP and Public Health? -- by Sangmin Aum, Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee, Yongseok Shin By www.nber.org Published On :: We construct a quantitative model of an economy hit by an epidemic. People differ by age and skill, and choose occupations and whether to commute to work or work from home, to maximize their income and minimize their fear of infection. Occupations differ by wage, infection risk, and the productivity loss when working from home. By setting the model parameters to replicate the progression of COVID-19 in South Korea and the United Kingdom, we obtain three key results. First, government-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate effect is to reduce GDP and infections by forcing people to work from home. A premature lifting of the lock-down raises GDP temporarily, but infections rise over the next months to a level at which many people choose to work from home, where they are less productive, driven by the fear of infection. A longer lock-down eventually mitigates the GDP loss as well as flattens the infection curve. Second, if the UK had adopted South Korean policies, its GDP loss and infections would have been substantially smaller both in the short and the long run. This is not because Korea implemented policies sooner, but because aggressive testing and tracking more effectively reduce infections and disrupt the economy less than a blanket lock-down. Finally, low-skill workers and self-employed lose the most from the epidemic and also from the government policies. However, the policy of issuing “visas” to those who have antibodies will disproportionately benefit the low-skilled, by relieving them of the fear of infection and also by allowing them to get back to work. Full Article
ea Which Workers Bear the Burden of Social Distancing Policies? -- by Simon Mongey, Laura Pilossoph, Alex Weinberg By www.nber.org Published On :: What are the characteristics of workers in jobs likely to be initially affected by broad social distancing and later by narrower policy tailored to jobs with low risk of disease transmission? We use O NET to construct a measure of the likelihood that jobs can be conducted from home (a variant of Dingel and Neiman, 2020) and a measure of low physical proximity to others at work. We validate the measures by showing how they relate to similar measures constructed using time use data from ATUS. Our main finding is that workers in low-work-from-home or high-physical- proximity jobs are more economically vulnerable across various measures constructed from the CPS and PSID: they are less educated, of lower income, have fewer liquid assets relative to income, and are more likely renters. We further substantiate the measures with behavior during the epidemic. First, we show that MSAs with less pre-virus employment in work-from-home jobs experienced smaller declines in the incidence of `staying-at-home', as measured using SafeGraph cell phone data. Second, we show that both occupations and types of workers predicted to be employed in low work-from-home jobs experienced greater declines in employment according to the March 2020 CPS. For example, non-college educated workers experienced a 4ppt larger decline in employment relative to those with a college degree. Full Article
ea Cops release sketch of suspect in sexual assault of teen inside NYC college bathroom By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 17:49:44 +0000 The 17-year-old victim was entering the bathroom inside the lower level of the library at Kingsborough Community College in Manhattan Beach about 11:35 a.m. Monday when she felt someone coming in behind her, cops said. Full Article