w Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery killing also under investigation, Georgia official says By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:16:29 +0000 A day after a father and son were charged in the February killing of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery, a Georgia official promised a thorough probe into the case and said the man who filmed the horrific incident is also under investigation. In a news conference Friday morning, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vic Reynolds said “every stone will be turned over" and if the facts lead agents to make another arrest “they will do that.” Full Article
w Trump calls video of Ahmaud Arbery killing ‘disturbing’ but trusts Georgia’s ‘very good’ law enforcement By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:55:23 +0000 President Trump on Friday called the viral video of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing “very, very disturbing,” but he said he’s confident that Georgia’s law enforcement authorities will handle the case properly despite a slow-moving investigation and conflict-of-interest questions surrounding the incident. “So I saw the tape, and it’s very, very disturbing," he said in a Fox New phone interview. “I looked at a picture of that young man. He was in a tuxedo... And I will say that that looks like a really good, young guy.” Full Article
w Record unemployment hits veterans hard, nearly 12% out of work By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:48:38 +0000 Veterans are being hit hard by unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic. Full Article
w No burglaries were reported in neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was killed, contradicting suspects’ claim: report By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:06:44 +0000 An already-unlikely motive in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case became even more suspicious on Friday. The two Georgia men who were caught on video shooting the unarmed jogger to death in February claim they were chasing a suspect behind a series of burglaries in the area. But a local police official said the last break-in the neighborhood was reported nearly two months before the shooting. Full Article
w Costco shoppers upset the retailer is requiring customers to wear face masks during a pandemic By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 22:09:05 +0000 Some Costco customers are not happy about having to wear masks in stores. Full Article
w 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
w Boeing 737 fatally strikes pedestrian on Texas runway By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:16:20 +0000 A Boeing 737 ran over a man who was on an Austin, TX runway Full Article
w 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
w The downsides of working from home By www.rte.ie Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 15:53:45 +0000 How should those now working from home due to the coronavirus deal with guilt and exhaustion? Full Article Work & careers
w US data to underscore divide between market and economy By www.rte.ie Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:33:36 +0000 A week packed with US economic data is likely to provide investors with more evidence of the extent to which the coronavirus pandemic has hit growth, sharpening the debate on whether a rebound in stocks has been justified amid an unprecedented slowdown. Full Article Business
w Ability to work from home could limit job losses - ESRI By www.rte.ie Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 07:53:31 +0000 More workers should be facilitated to work from home in order to improve their chances of retaining their jobs, according to the Economic and Social Research Institute. Full Article Business
w Covid-19 impacting 'well-being and relationships' By www.rte.ie Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:53:51 +0000 The Covid-19 outbreak is having a negative impact on personal relationships and well-being, while it has also led to an increase in the consumption of alcohol. Full Article Business
w €240 billion in low-cost credit for eurozone states By www.rte.ie Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:03:30 +0000 Eurozone ministers have formally approved €240 billion in credit lines to help European countries meet the crippling costs of fighting the coronavirus outbreak. Full Article Business
w Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit the Target? -- by João Granja, Christos Makridis, Constantine Yannelis, Eric Zwick By www.nber.org Published On :: This paper takes an early look at the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a large and novel small business support program that was part of the initial policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We use new data on the distribution of PPP loans and high-frequency micro-level employment data to consider two dimensions of program targeting. First, we do not find evidence that funds flowed to areas more adversely affected by the economic effects of the pandemic, as measured by declines in hours worked or business shutdowns. If anything, funds flowed to areas less hard hit. Second, we find significant heterogeneity across banks in terms of disbursing PPP funds, which does not only reflect differences in underlying loan demand. The top-4 banks alone account for 36% of total pre-policy small business loans, but disbursed less than 3% of all PPP loans. Areas that were significantly more exposed to low-PPP banks received much lower loan allocations. As data become available, we will study employment and establishment responses to the program and the impact of PPP support on the economic recovery. Measuring these responses is critical for evaluating the social insurance value of the PPP and similar policies. Full Article
w A bridge too far: Bill Baroni, Bridget Kelly and Chris Christie committed moral crimes against New Jersey By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 18:02:52 +0000 By the time in 2015 when prosecutors indicted Chris Christie flunkies Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni for shutting down Fort Lee’s George Washington Bridge lanes for four days in 2013 to punish the mayor for failing to endorse the big man in Trenton’s reelection, the two sick sycophants had long lost their stupid sinecures in the State House and Port Authority. And Christie had already rightly lost the trust of Jerseyans for building the hothouse in which the lichens could grow. Full Article
w Bring on the e-scooters: A Bird executive explains how New York City can smartly and safely welcome the micromobility devices By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 20:08:58 +0000 Electric scooters are coming to New York and, with a little planning and preparation, they can safely thrive here. To understand how, it helps to start with some context. Full Article
w 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
w 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
w Pass an essential workers’ bill of rights: During crisis, give those doing critical jobs added protections and pay By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000 The COVID-19 crisis is laying bare our city’s extreme racial and economic inequality. Not only have communities of color borne the brunt of the pandemic, but workers of color make up 75% of New York’s essential workers, the people who are risking their health to provide the services on which we all rely. Full Article
w How to enforce social distancing: The NYPD is doing it all wrong By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000 The beating of a young black man by police on the East Village last weekend should trouble all New Yorkers. Even more troubling is that the incident began with officers enforcing the city’s social distancing rules on the first summer-like weekend of the pandemic while white revelers lounged close together, unmolested, in parks nearby. Officers handed them masks instead. Full Article
w Taking government money? Disclose your political spending: Companies should opt for transparency now more than ever By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:00:00 +0000 With increasing reports of large public companies and politically connected ones receiving COVID-19 rescue aid and the Trump administration blocking proper oversight, business leaders can act on their own to protect the integrity of the government aid effort and of companies themselves. They can do that by disclosing their companies’ political spending to show that political influence is not a factor in who gets help. Full Article
w We could use a few more Good Samaritans By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 16:11:25 +0000 “The Parable of the Good Samaritan is about a Jewish man unexpectedly receiving help from a despised enemy with whom he had serious religious differences.” Full Article
w GREENE: Same profiling, same brutality, same disrespect — social distancing enforcement shows NYC ‘not as far as we think we are’ By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 22:23:25 +0000 As much as Mayor de Blasio wants to pretend these arrests are just a drop in the bucket, from the point of view of those being constantly dropped in the bucket, the city’s heavy-handed coronavirus crackdown is just more of the same.Same profiling. Same brutality. Same disrespect. Full Article
w 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
w 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
w 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
w Let the whistles blow: Never mind the Trump administration; listen to those calling out wrongdoing By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 13:00:00 +0000 Add Dr. Rick Bright to the list of coronavirus whistleblowers silenced or sidelined for trying to push truth over politics as we battle this deadly scourge. He was just ousted from his post as director of the HHS agency working on a COVID-19 vaccine for what he claims was his refusal to support a “game-changing” supposed cure President Trump and friends have been touting. CDC chief Robert Redfield suffered a similar rebuke for warning of a second wave of the virus next winter, contradicting the more rosy picture the president wants trying to paint. Not fired (yet), but clearly pressured to toe the line, truth and science be damned. Full Article
w Why I’m on a rent strike By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:00:00 +0000 My landlord in Stuyvesant Town is the private equity giant Blackstone, which happens to be the world’s largest private landlord. Blackstone sent a letter to tenants on March 30th offering a “rental assistance program” during COVID-19. The program just meant tenants can break their lease and move during a pandemic, use their security deposit (and pay it back later), or commit to paying full rent over a longer period of time, if we can prove we’ve suffered economic loss. Full Article
w 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
w Dave Checketts on his wild tenure running the ’90s Knicks By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:30:00 +0000 Time has been extremely kind to Checketts' Knicks tenure. Full Article
w One group of Nets workers is being left out in the cold By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 20:51:58 +0000 When Nets owner Joe Tsai pledged to continue paying the Barclays Center workers who make game day experiences possible through the end of May, it was a relief to many. One group has been left out in the cold, however, and is now speaking up for itself. Full Article
w 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
w 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
w Dave Checketts on his wild tenure running the ’90s Knicks By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:30:00 +0000 Time has been extremely kind to Checketts' Knicks tenure. Full Article
w Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence From the Flint Water Switch -- by Shooshan Danagoulian, Daniel S. Grossman, David Slusky By www.nber.org Published On :: Emergency department visits are costly to providers and to patients. We use the Flint water crisis to test if an increase in office visits reduced avoidable emergency room visits. In September 2015, the city of Flint issued a lead advisory to its residents, alerting them of increased lead levels in their drinking water, resulting from the switch in water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Using Medicaid claims for 2013-2016, we find that this information shock increased the share of enrollees who had lead tests performed by 1.7 percentage points. Additionally, it increased office visits immediately following the information shock and led to a reduction of 4.9 preventable, non-emergent, and primary-care-treatable emergency room visits per 1000 eligible children (8.2%). This decrease is present in shifts from emergency room visits to office visits across several common conditions. Our analysis suggest that children were more likely to receive care from the same clinic following lead tests and that establishing care reduced the likelihood parents would take their children to emergency rooms for conditions treatable in an office setting. Our results are potentially applicable to any situation in which individuals are induced to seek more care in an office visit setting. Full Article
w White House upgrade: First lady’s done a lot with the place By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:30:02 +0000 Like anyone who has ever spruced up their home, Melania Trump will have a few new touches to showcase Friday when guests visit the White House for only the second state dinner of the Trump presidency. Full Article
w Supertall residential building will enter crowded NYC market By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:30:39 +0000 A New York City condominium tower will be the world’s tallest predominantly residential building when it opens next year, though it will be competing with other ultra-luxury buildings for billionaire buyers, the building’s developer said Tuesday. Full Article
w 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
w 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
w 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
w 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
w Switzerland pays $3.48 million for condo in Pinnacle building By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:35:54 +0000 Switzerland paid $3.48 million for a four-bedroom, 5,300-square-foot condo in the Pinnacle building in downtown Chicago. Full Article
w This Florida Keys private island with a rich history is for sale. Asking price: $17 million. By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:39:39 +0000 A private island in Islamorada on the Florida Keys is for sale for $17 million. The island is called Terra's Key, after its owner John Terra, and has historical significance dating back to the 1800s. Full Article
w Two South Florida mansions offer a taste of the rock star lifestyle By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:00:14 +0000 Russ Weiner, the founder of Rockstar Energy Drink, has listed his Miami Beach and Delray Beach mansions for sale. The total asking price: $71.5 million. Full Article
w 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
w 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
w Scientologists buy dozens of properties in Florida city, newspaper reports By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:15:36 +0000 In a report published Sunday, the Tampa Bay Times said that it discovered the extent of Scientology property purchases by reviewing more than 1,000 deeds and business records and then interviewed more than 90 people to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding the transactions. Full Article
w Iconic Las Vegas wedding chapel is no longer up for sale By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:41:33 +0000 The owner of a Las Vegas chapel where celebrity couples like Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have gotten married is staying wedded to her business. Full Article
w Boo! Who wants to live where someone has died? By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:00:59 +0000 Most buyers, understandably, would want to know if a violent death occurred in the houses they are considering. Full Article
w Patriots QB Tom Brady reportedly buying $9M Greenwich estate By www.nydailynews.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:19:10 +0000 New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his wife, Gisele Bundchen, reportedly have wrapped up their house hunting in Greenwich, settling on a seven-bedroom, nearly 15,000-square-foot estate. Full Article