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‘Shocked, disheartened, devastated’: Restaurant and hotel workers reel as layoffs soar again Abha Bhattarai, Laura Reiley © Jae C. Hong/AP Edward Flores, 56, a fourth-generation owner of Juanitas Cafe, pushes his cart through empty Olvera Street after closing his restaurant for the day in downtown Los Angeles on Dec. 16. Jasmine Slater was making $600 a week waitressing at a family steakhouse in Orlando — enough to pay her bills and support herself and two children �...

Restaurant workers “have pivoted so many times they’ve made a circle,” and now employment options are running out.

Readers, here are your top complaints for Festivus 2020 The airing of grievances was more cathartic than ever this year.     The alternative holiday known as Festivus can be traced to the classic 1997 episode of Seinfeld called “The Strike.” (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television Inc.) Updated Jan. 19 Why are we and others around the world still celebrating Festivus, a made-up holiday from a beloved ’90s Seinfeld episode? It’s because we like it. It’s funny. It’s a...

My New Orleans 12/17/2020   I have been relieved on late to note brisk traffic on Magazine Street, my neighborhood Main Street, as holiday shoppers and celebrants have been turning out to keep their business local. a special holiday cocktail promotion with several of the association’s hospitality partners.  Priding itself on distilling “spirits with a sense of place,” Seven Three produces rum, gin, whiskey, vodka and moonshine from its flagship on North Claiborne Avenue and the name Sev...

Remarks by Vice President Pence at a Roundtable Discussion on Operation Warp Speed | Bloomington, IN Posted on 1:56P.M. EST THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, let me — let me let — let me let people hear from the experts first, and then I’m — I’ll make a few comments before we hear from all of the heroes here at Catalent about the great role that they’re playing. But I’ll just take 30 seconds to say to you, Governor Holcomb, thank you for your steady leadership over the last 10 months. As...

Hearing folks in agriculture talking doom and gloom, but i will tell you it is doom and gloom. >> the full extent of the crop loss in north carolina is still unknown because some fields are cut off by flood watters. more than 5,000 people have been rescued, and the rivers continue to rise more than a week after hurricane florence. in new bern, bryan llenas, fox news. arthel: devastating conditions. okay. we get back to politics now. democrats are predicting big gains in the midterms, despite a b...

Persevere. i have never known north caroli carolinans to quit in the face of a challenge and we are not going to start and speaking of a team that never quits, id like to introduce to you some of our team who are working here at the emergency operation center, 24/7. theyre working around the clock to keep north carolina safe. i want to introduce to you to my right eric cook, secretary of safety. and beside him, mandy cohen, secretary of health and human resources. and secretary-- >> were going t...

Point of attack ads, 50 democrat candidates saying that they would not support every election. her reelection bid as part of the leader, the california congressman saying "i have a following in the country unsurpassed by anybody unless they are running for president. this is not anything to make a big fuss over it. it is politics. i can take the heat. thats why stay in the kitchen." eric cook, the principle of her strategies from the left, and republican, former communication director for marco ...

the train just derailed in front of the train station down here on main street. >> we are hearing the calls for help after a deadly train derailment. romney and ryan back on the campaign trail and now its the presidents turn to make his case for re-election. >> im jim vance. >> and im wendy rieger. we the aftermath of hurricane isaac. tens of thousands of people in the gulf coast are still without power and communities are under water. but the clean up is under way. storm relief ...

investigators had found nothing in ambers background that would suggest anyone would want to harm her. the police dig deeper. >> so many times when we get a lead on a case, somebody will say oh, i didnt think it mattered and it may not be, it may not seem significant to the person who sees it. when that is coupled with something we have, it can break the case. >> night amber stanley was killed, the gunman kicked up the front door, went up a flight of stairs and shot her multiple times....