Hilton (H) Continues to Expand Presence Despite Pandemic Zacks.com 12/16/2020
Although the hotel industry has been bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic,
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. HLT continues to expand footprint worldwide. Notably, the company recently opened its 300th hotel in China market. Notably, China is the company’s single largest market outside the United States.
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The company is planning to open 1,000 hotels in China by 2025. Hilton is the fastest growing company in Asia. The company currently has 10 out of Hilton s 18 brands in China. The company has “1 in 5 rooms under construction in Asia Pacific, and 1 in 3 in China, carrying the Hilton flag a huge leap from just 100 properties three years ago.”
Communities struggle to make best use of COVID homeless aid
Funding delays and confusing spending restrictions have hampered communities’ abilities to capitalize on the largest influx of homeless aid in American history.
By Howard Center for Investigative Journalism
Winter in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge is wet and freezing, a life-threatening situation for the area’s homeless residents even without a pandemic. Darcy Long-Curtiss understands that better than most.
The shelter that normally provided nighttime refuge was closed because of COVID-19, and federal aid money meant to help protect homeless people from the pandemic came late and with confusing restrictions. By the time Long-Curtiss got permission to erect temporary shelters purchased with her community’s share of the funding, temperatures were already dipping below freezing. She had just one week to ready the site and make potentially life-and-death decisions.
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Police were sent to 3 Dennis St., at 4:30 p.m., where they arrested a 39-year-old male resident on two outstanding warrants.
Anderson Dacruz, 39, of 3 Dennis St., Peabody, was arrested, on one warrant, on charges of assault and battery on a family or household member with a dangerous weapon and with breaking and entering in the nighttime for a felony. The second warrant charged him with distributing obscene matter; distributing obscene matter to a minor; accosting or annoying another person; enticing a child under 16; Open and gross lewdness; criminal harassment; and making annoying telephone calls or communications.
Police were called to McDonalds, 133Â Main St., at 5:50 p.m. for an issue with a customer. The employee said the customer was aggressive and refused to wear a mask. The Peabody man was issued a trespass notice to McDonalds.