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Real estate experts: Residential is booming, commercial is begging Paul Briand DURHAM - A panel of real estate experts at an online forum Wednesday night cited booming residential real estate but flagging commercial properties as effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. High-flying residential sales are being fueled by low interest rates, limited supply and intense interest by out-of-state buyers, according to the “Real Estate Trends in the COVID-19 Market” panel assembled by the University of New Hampshire. “It’s a hard time to find a house right now,” said Adam Dow, founder of the Kelle...

March 1, 2021 The FinTech Industry Wants to Give Desperate Workers an Advance on Their Next Paycheck. It’s a Trap. Employers love so-called earned-wage access apps. Their employees, not so much. Illustration by An Chen In a video filmed for his millions of Twitter followers, the celebrity preacher T.D. Jakes, posing in a double-breasted suit with a conspicuous gold watch on his wrist, asks his audience, “Do you realize 78 percent of Americans in this country live paycheck to paycheck?” Then he shares the good news: An app called Earnin can help. “It is possible to stretch your check,...

Twice in less than two months last year, Nancy Keator was surprised and angered by extra fees tacked onto her medical bills. In November and again in December, the Westerville resident had to have X-rays (at different facilities), and each time, the bill contained a fee attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic: One for $25 for “extra supplies, material and clinical staff” and the other for $15 for additional cleaning. Keator, 69, questioned the need for the charges (“Are you telling me you don’t normally clean between X-rays?” she asked), but what really got her was that neither facility...

What's this fee on my medical bill? Ohio patients complain about COVID-19 'hidden cost' Ken Gordon, The Columbus Dispatch © MEGAN JELINGER, AFP via Getty Images (FILES) In this file photo a healthcare professional suits up with PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) to enter a Covid-19 patient's room in the ICU at Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert, Ohio on November 20, 2020. - The cumulative total of Covid-19 cases surged by nearly 30 percent across the Americas region in just one month, the Pan American Health Organization warned on December 2, 2020, releasing figures for ...

The Herald News FALL RIVER — The Narrows Center for the Arts will present a live-streamed concert with Greg Abate on Friday, Feb. 26 at 8 p.m.  RI-based Abate is known the world over as a master of the alto saxophone and a hard core bebopper, but he does much more. He is also proficient on the soprano, tenor and baritone saxes, as well as the flute. He is also a respected composer; some of his 17 CDs consist of only his own songs, while others feature standards along with his own pieces. Abate is one of a diminishing number of jazz artists who travel the world non-stop, often more than 225...