The Maryland Senate overrode four vetoes from Gov. Larry Hogan, R, on Tuesday, including one that would require a licensed firearms dealer to facilitate most transactions involving rifles and shotguns.
American Airlines says it may have to furlough as many as 13,000 employees
In a letter to employees, American Airlines executives said slow vaccine distribution and increased COVID-19 requirements continue to depress passenger numbers. Author: Elizabeth Wiley Updated: 6:24 PM EST February 5, 2021
FORT WORTH, Texas Two American Airlines executives are warning that decreased travel volumes means the company may have to furlough up to 13,000 employees, according to a letter sent to employees Wednesday.
CEO Doug Parker and President Robert Isom wrote that without an extension of the Payroll Support Program beyond the end of March, they will have more employees than the flight schedule requires.
As just about everyone knows, the United States is way behind the curve on developing high-speed rail transport. Most of the developed countries of Europe and Asia have high-speed rail networks tying their cities together, while this country has only one such line that just barely qualifies. Some of those other countries, most notably China and Japan, are also investing in magnetic levitation, the next generation of superfast rail travel. To date, proposals to build a maglev line in America have not advanced past the “vaporware” stage, but that’s about to change, now that the Federal Transit Administration has released a preliminary review of a plan to build a 40-mile maglev line connecting Washington and Baltimore, the first leg of a possible maglev line connecting all the cities of the Northeast Corridor.