"Revere was going through a revival before COVID-19. Can it stay on track?; The city, long defined by its beach, looks to a future filled with potential -- and challenges" by Tim Logan and Janelle Nanos Globe Staff, August 19, 2020
New homes under construction at 320 Revere Beach Boulevard form the backdrop for a sunny day at Crescent Beach (Lane Turner/Globe Staff).
REVERE — On a spacious plaza next to Wonderland Station on the Blue Line, a diverse crowd dined on the patio of a hip, upscale restaurant with ocean views. Next door, construction workers laid cement for a new hotel. Nearby on the beach, children played in the gentle surf, and teenagers skateboarded along the promenade.
Amidst it all on this summer afternoon: a blue tent where the city health department offered walk-up coronavirus testing, free to all comers.
This seaside city has been having a moment. Revere’s revival was well underway until COVID-19, which has hit it as hard as almost anyplace else in the state, wreaking health and economic havoc in a city that’s home to many immigrants and service industry workers. When and how it emerges from the crisis will provide a measure of the “new” Revere’s resiliency, and how well it can serve everyone from longtime lower-income residents to the more-affluent newcomers.
“At this point, it’s really important for us to keep our foot on the gas,” said Mayor Brian Arrigo. “A lot of the oxygen has been sucked out because of COVID, but we need to keep firing on all cylinders.”
Even as development surges, Revere has been clobbered by COVID-19, and at 27.6 percent, Revere’s unemployment rate in June was second in the state only to Lawrence’s, reflecting job losses among the huge numbers of residents who work in hotels, restaurants, and other hard-hit service industries.
Helping those people will be essential to any recovery and broader growth for the city, said Wendy Millar-Page, executive director of the Revere Chamber of Commerce.
For years, Revere residents have had a sense the city was on the cusp of change. Suffolk Downs, on the Boston line, was long a front-runner for the casino that ultimately went to Everett. Then it was pitched as a site for Amazon’s so-called HQ2. Neither mega-project came to pass, but “we were winners in losing,” said Robert O’Brien, the city’s director of strategic planning and economic development. Those bids helped Revere catch the eye of builders, and suddenly, he said, the city “was no longer hidden in Boston’s shadow; it had its own spotlight.”
Today, many see revitalization being realized in the strip of glimmering new apartment buildings that dot the waterfront, and in an Amazon warehouse that opened in July in the former Necco factory, but to some, these changes are not entirely new. They say Revere’s promising future is simply an echo of its past.
Celebrated as the first public beach in America, Revere Beach, with its noisy arcades, amusement rides, and famous fried food, served as a cheap and easy escape from downtown Boston for over a century, but gradually, the good times faded. The roller coaster came down, and the dance halls closed. The summer crowds, once huge, moved on. The destruction caused by the Blizzard of ’78 provided a final blow. A handful of beach bars and ice cream stands — and the original Kelly’s Roast Beef — serve as reminders of those glory days. So do the pictures of Revere’s heyday that hang from the walls of local restaurants, as well as the intricately designed pavilions along the oceanfront promenade that hint at lost grandeur, but while some people bask in Revere’s nostalgia, others have a vision for a future built on its colorful past.
The question is how many will be around to see it.
Michael Aldi, a Boston restaurateur and developer Arrigo courted to do business in the city, saw promise in the oceanfront views and decided to take a chance: Last fall, he opened Dryft, the city’s first fine-dining restaurant, on the plaza overlooking the beach and plans to open a second restaurant on the Ocean Avenue strip. He believes that more tourism and retail business is on the horizon and wants to get in on the front end of the coming boom.
What do they know that we don't?
Simulation coming to an end or genocide at hand?
Related:
"For the first time in its 30-year history, the James Beard Foundation won’t name winners at its annual awards ceremony, calling such an event unfair and misguided given the current circumstances. Considered the Oscars of the food world, the James Beard Foundation honors top chefs, restaurants, and beverage professionals nationwide. Instead, its Sept. 25 ceremony will spotlight previously announced honorees and spotlight new initiatives to remove systemic bias in the restaurant industry. According to a release, the choice comes “as restaurants continue to suffer the grave negative effects of COVID-19 and as substantial and sustained upheaval in the community has created an environment in which the Foundation believes the assignment of Awards will do little to further the.....”
I've had enough.
Some of this newfound glitz is driven by forces far beyond Revere. As in other lower-cost parts of Greater Boston — especially those with good MBTA access ― newcomers have arrived in Revere in droves as rents have soared in the core of the region. Developers ― and restaurants and retailers ― have followed, gradually drawing a wealthier clientele.
That brings opportunity, said Rafael Mares, executive director of Neighborhood Developers, a housing nonprofit that works in Revere and Chelsea, but it also risks pushing out the immigrants and working-class renters who have long called the city home.
“The regional housing crisis has made people look in places they didn’t look before. Revere is one of them,” Mares said. “It’s like the ocean. We have this high tide that’s going up.”
That should lift all boats, and you see who the Globe's first concern is when it comes to the Great Re$et gentrification that you are looking at.
One of the biggest waves is forming at Suffolk Downs, where plans for a huge new neighborhood are taking shape. About 40 percent of the vast, now- shuttered horse track is in Revere, and while the permitting has been slow next door in Boston, Revere officials in 2018 quickly approved plans for about 2,400 apartments, retail space, and a cluster of office buildings on the city’s section of the site. When it’s all built ― years from now ― the development will boost Revere’s commercial tax base by more than 50 percent, said economic development director O’Brien, and make room for white-collar jobs on a scale Revere has never seen.
It’s a long-term play, said Tom O’Brien (no relation to Robert O’Brien), managing partner at Suffolk Downs’ developer, HYM Investment Group, but it’s one he’s confident will long outlast the pandemic. “We’re developers, so we’re always optimistic,” he said. “We see the bright side, but the bright side has typically worked out.”
Still, some worry all this change is too much, too fast. Especially now.
“There’s interesting growth happening, and a lot of resistance to the growth, as well,” Millar-Page said. “There’s a fear that people are going to be pushed out, and where do they go, especially during this COVID time. Where do you go if you’re already unemployed or furloughed?”
Her answer is to take steps to ensure current inhabitants will be able to stay as Revere evolves. That means reexamining transportation options to help people move around the city. It also means implementing programs to help service workers advance as their industries recover, and capturing some of those office jobs at Suffolk Downs.
It means building hotels, but also creating a tourism infrastructure to lure people who might not know there’s a fun beach resort close by Boston, while encouraging new residents to celebrate and patronize the immigrant-owned businesses that have made Revere unusual.
Some of those efforts are underway. The city released a draft master plan at the start of the year, with detailed recommendations for transportation, economic development, and housing. The plan is already providing a framework for recovering from the pandemic, with the city focusing resources on training programs for laid-off workers and allocating cash to help restaurants stay afloat.
Still, Arrigo said, today’s circumstances are unprecedented.
“There’s no handbook for this,” he said. “We’re just trying to make sure that we’re planning for and creating opportunities and a high quality of life for every single person in this city.”
What a liar!
This is all as was written in the Rockefeller-Gates playbook.
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Both reporters then split up and went their different ways on the avenue:
"On Shirley Avenue, preserving the spine of a neighborhood amid growth; "This is a new era for Revere," said one restaurant owner" by Janelle Nanos Globe Staff, August 19, 2020
With so many massive projects underway in Revere — Suffolk Downs to the south, Ocean Avenue to the east, and Wonderland to the north — it feels as though tectonic plates are shifting in this city, and all around Shirley Avenue, the main commercial district and the home to dozens of immigrant-owned businesses, people can sense big changes afoot.
“It’s like a volcano waiting to erupt,” longtime City Councilor Ira Novoselsky said, waving his arms at various construction sites as he toured the street, and rumblings are now being felt all along throughout the city’s main shopping corridor, jostling the makeup of the streetscape.
The first person she ran into was Ira the city councilor?
Novoselsky has spent all of his 73 years living just one block over from Shirley Avenue. He can remember when it was lined with kosher butcher shops, shoe stores, and a synagogue. By the 1970s the storefronts had been boarded up, he said, and the strip had become a haven for criminals. Today, the trouble has abated, and those same storefronts teem with life, reflecting a new generation of arrivals: a Colombian bakery, a Cambodian grocery, a Brazilian butcher shop, and a restaurant serving Moroccan cuisine.
That's what happens with parasites; they use a place up and move on to the next town.
“I’ve always called it the corridor of change in Revere,” said Wendy Millar-Page, head of the Revere Chamber of Commerce. “It’s the original doorstep for new immigrants in the city,” and that change is rapidly escalating. With the Revere Beach MBTA stop at the end of the street, and Bluebikes scheduled to arrive at the end of the summer, the neighborhood has become an increasingly attractive location for commuters looking for quick access to downtown Boston. The area is zoned for taller buildings, and they’ve been cropping up quickly: four- and five-story apartments built with commuters in mind, some with micro units and fold-down Murphy beds.
WTF?
Bo$ton is now a gho$t town.
This week, bulldozers began ripping up the street’s asphalt as the state embarked on a $2 million MassWorks rehabilitation project that will widen sidewalks, install new trees and lighting, and make a more pedestrian-friendly pathway from the beach. These enhancements are expected to drive more foot traffic to the new restaurants that have begun arriving — and there are many.
This is so at odds with the 25-50% capacity and rules that we are living with for the foreseeable future, and yet it is not. What it looks like is the Great Re$et after a lot of us are no longer members of this mortal coil.
In more than a decade of working in restaurants along Revere Beach, Alex Herrera saw the changes coming, and in October, he and a partner opened Valsos Table & Bar, a cool, cozy restaurant and bar on Shirley Avenue that specializes in Italian, Spanish, and Latin American cuisine.
Before COVID, he said, business was good, with a mix of locals and visitors in search of an interesting bite along Shirley Avenue. After COVID hit — and with a multi-month shutdown — business was harder, but Valsos has added outdoor tables in a parking lot next door, and Herrera said he’s hopeful they can ride out the pandemic.
Just get inoculated with their God-awful vaccine and everything will be all right, huh?
Long-term, Herrera is bullish on Shirley Avenue, enough so that he and his partner are opening a second eatery, a cafe, up the street. He’s betting that all those newcomers, and longtime residents, will want places to eat in the neighborhood, places they can walk to and avoid a trip downtown.
“We just see tons of potential here, compared to downtown or the Seaport [areas] that are so saturated,” he said. “In a couple more years, this place is going to be very different.”
Absolutely chilling, and will they be able to eat inside in the fall and winter?
It’s that promise that drew Alicia Manzano and her husband to the street, as well. They’re just weeks away from opening Esquite, a Mexican street-food restaurant.
How can that be in the age of closed bars and outdoor dining?
The couple, who met in Mexico City but live in Revere, worked as servers in Boston’s restaurant industry for the past decade. For the last two years they’ve been selling Mexican street corn from their Eloti food truck and dreamed of opening their own restaurant, but never imagined they’d get a location on Shirley Avenue. The restaurant, which will open Sept. 15, is on the first floor of a former rooming house that was converted to apartments. Manzano and Herrera both received assistance from the city to open their storefronts.
WHAT?!
“The avenue is changing a lot — the whole city is changing — and we want to be part of this,” she said. “This is a new era for Revere.”
I gue$$!
The street’s transition is in many ways a microcosm of the city’s transformation, and that, of course, is not without challenges. Existing businesses depend largely on Revere not being gentrified.
With a limited $lave cla$$ after the mass cull that is planned.
Some business owners welcome the growth. Maria Arango owns Las Delicias Colombianas restaurant and a check-cashing company on the street and has been a business owner on Shirley Avenue for 25 years. She said new businesses have helped create more jobs for local workers, which is a good thing overall, but Kaiuna Ke, who for 20 years has run Angkor Thom, a Cambodian grocery store just down the street, said she’s worried that all the change might mean her building will be sold, and she’s not alone.
Party pooper!
Don't worry, you won't be worrying for long. The Whole Foods opens next week and Stop & Shop is reinventing itself to meet COVID-19 needs, and what are they going to do with us all, turn us into meat?
See: "Nestle is adding faux tuna to its growing plant-protein portfolio as the world’s largest food company expands beyond vegan burgers. The tuna alternative, based on pea protein and wheat gluten, will first be sold in Nestle’s home market of Switzerland, under its Garden Gourmet brand, at the end of August. While the plant-based seafood industry lags the faux meat and dairy markets — perhaps because fish itself is already considered a healthy alternative to red meat — Nestle is joining an increasing number of competitors trying to win the category."
The menu the Great Re$et is pushing on us is sickeningly mind-boggling (never mind the mercury in the tuna).
Now roll up that sleeve, please.
Millar-Page, the chamber’s head, said the city has been thoughtful in its approach to the shopping district, supporting immigrant-owned businesses and encouraging their growth. With growth comes opportunity, of course, but also a sense of what might be lost down the road.
Their very souls and humanity given the composition of the vaccine.
“There’s an underlying current of fear of gentrification and displacement,” she said, “but on Shirley Ave. they’re more hopeful, because it’s Shirley Ave.” It’s always been a corridor of change.
It's a fal$e hope, but that makes it easier to be led to slaughter.
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They have been working her hard lately, and I wonder if this guy was also at the march:
"A beachside boomtown, but for whom?; As Revere attracts residential development, some fear the city may become unaffordable for lower-income people" by Tim Logan Globe Staff, August 19, 2020
For developers looking to build housing in Greater Boston these last few years, Revere Beach has seemed like an obvious destination.
It has plenty to offer. Beautiful views, a 15-minute trip to downtown Boston on the Blue Line, and land and construction costs low enough to turn a decent profit, and so up and down that crescent strip of sand this summer, the thud of nail guns has mixed with the squawk of sea gulls as apartment buildings sprout from parking lots. Those that have already opened have done well, filling quickly at prices that, while high by Revere standards, look like a deal compared with many parts of Boston and Cambridge, and more are coming ― builders are eyeing a range of sites along the beach, and 1,400 apartments are planned in early phases of the massive Suffolk Downs project nearby.
“We feel like we’re in the right place,” said Kyle Warwick, principal at Redgate, a Boston developer with three apartment buildings open or underway in Revere. “It’s an emerging area, with this great beach. You can really feel the momentum.”
That momentum, though, is up in the air now. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving Boston rents down for the first time in years. That quick T ride to the city may hold less appeal than it used to, and the pipeline of twentysomethings looking for reasonable places to live could dry up for awhile.
Where did that come from?
I assume all these projects will have the new social distancing and safety protocols, right?
Or is the culling and tagging project to have been completed by then, given that the youth are in sever distress with this fall's school year?
At the same time, other parts of Revere, away from the beach, are wrestling with an economic crisis brought on by the virus. Unemployment tops 27 percent in Revere, where many residents work in hotels, restaurants, and other industries devastated by COVID-19. Worries about a wave of evictions — when the state’s moratorium on them eventually ends — loom large. Many are concerned about the sort of rapid turnover that has pushed working-class immigrants out of neighboring East Boston.
It will push any who can no longer afford to live in the idyllic beach community.
Hey, wait a minute!
“There’s a lot at stake here,” said Rafael Mares, executive director at Neighborhood Developers, a housing nonprofit that works in Revere and Chelsea. “The fear is that people will be evicted, units will free up, and they’ll be filled with people who are younger, whiter, and have a higher income, from outside of Revere.”
That's the fear?
A White person's invasion?
That split reflects Revere’s newer construction. Of the more than 2,000 units built or underway, most are on the beach, with one-bedroom apartments often renting for $2,000 a month or more. Unlike Boston and several other nearby cities, Revere does not require affordable housing to be included in market-rate buildings. Just one lower-income project — a 52-unit apartment building by TND on Revere Street — has broken ground.
That’s largely by design. The city’s stock of three-deckers and small apartment buildings has always been relatively affordable, said economic development director Bob O’Brien, so city officials focused on wooing newer, market-rate buildings along the beach. That was a bid to boost Revere’s tax base, he said, and its population. Almost all the new buildings rose on vacant lots or parking lots, he noted, and didn’t directly displace anyone.
But they will.
Still, in a city where more than half of the residents are renters, many of whom are lower-income, the disconnect between what Revere is building for newcomers and what the people who live there now can afford is stark. That was clear in conversations about the city’s new master plan, a draft of which was finished earlier this year ― more than 70 percent of residents listed affordable housing as a top priority. Now, the city’s looking at lots it can get into the hands of affordable-housing developers, and starting to think about an affordability requirement like Boston’s, but that won’t be ready in time for the next wave of development.
Warwick’s company, Redgate, is wrapping up its third apartment building in Revere. Called Ryder, it’s on track to open next spring. Warwick is hoping it can build on the the success of 500 Ocean, a 305-unit building alongside the MBTA’s Wonderland Station that opened last fall and is more than 75 percent leased to a mix of downtown professionals, students, and empty-nesters.
Things have slowed a bit in the pandemic, Warwick said, but he’s hopeful 500 Ocean will fill up soon, and that Ryder will open next spring in a recovering market.
“We’re still believers,” Warwick said. “We’re going to keep growing here.”
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Maybe someday they will look like Cambridge -- or New York, for that matter:
"Harlem is golden, as it often is in summer, the uptown sun shining a bit brighter and the sky seeming a bit wider than in other parts of Manhattan. The sidewalks are not packed, but they’re far from empty, and the streets have their usual rhythm: buses groaning and cars zipping around them. It’s a beautiful, ordinary day in the neighborhood. Four months after the height of the pandemic and just over three months after I left New York for Boston while both cities were at a standstill, I returned to Manhattan for the first time, and so on Tuesday, I set out in search of the city COVID-19 had created, glimpses of emptiness: a handful of vacated restaurants and nail salons, a slightly overgrown park, a drained city pool. There were also new symbols: shop windows reading ‘MASKS REQUIRED’ and tiles on the subway platform reminding people to stay 6 feet apart, but throughout the day, while I traveled by train, foot, and bike, I was most struck by all that had not changed. neighborhood was hit hard. Hamilton Heights is brown, Black, and heavily immigrant. While I worked from home, interviewing epidemiologists and chronicling the spread of the pandemic in another city, a steady stream of people trudged to the bus stop and train each morning, waiting as ambulance sirens blared around them.
They are still telling that lie despite the silence in the neighborhoods (except for the gunfire, of course)?
Uptown, New Yorkers were on their way to where they needed to go, perhaps biking instead of taking the bus or being more careful than usual to avoid getting too close to strangers, but seemingly at ease with the new normal. I knew that the seeming normalcy masked an unfurling crisis. New York has emerged from the public health terror of the virus for now, with positive test rates and per capita deaths and cases even lower than Massachusetts, but the financial impact is still sending shock waves through the city. Towards the end of the day, my old roommate joined me for a late lunch. We biked around until we saw a familiar place with a large, mostly empty outdoor dining area. It was my friend’s first time eating a meal out since March, and my second. At first we glanced nervously around at the other diners and hesitated to take off our masks, but soon, we were laughing and chatting, reminiscing on things we had done before COVID-19 and making promises about what we’d do again. On our table, my friend and I found a time capsule, a card advertising half-off wine bottles from Jan. 1 to Feb. 29, 2020. We jokingly asked if the discount still applied....."
They must have already drank some because there is nothing to joke about unless you are a sick, evil, genocidal globalist on the inside of this thing.
Restaurants have taken over Dyckman Street in northern Manhattan, which has been temporarily closed to cars during the coronavirus pandemic (Karsten Moran/NYT)
How sad is the photographic evidence backing up the propaganda, and it was a little more than a week ago that they reported something completely different.
I'm sure there are plenty of bed and breakfasts on Airbnb in New York City.
{@@##$$%%^^&&}
Was an overnight stay, so.....
"Airbnb is banning house parties worldwide as it tries to clean up its reputation and comply with coronavirus-related limits on gatherings. The San Francisco home sharing company will limit occupancy in its rental homes to 16 people. It may offer exceptions for boutique hotels or other event venues. Airbnb said it may pursue legal action against guests and hosts who violate the ban. Last week, for the first time, Airbnb took legal action against a guest who held an unauthorized party in Sacramento County, Calif. Airbnb has always prohibited unauthorized parties, and the company said nearly 75 percent of its listings explicitly ban parties, but after a deadly shooting at a California Airbnb rental last Halloween, the company has taken multiple steps to crack down on parties. Five people were killed in the shooting, which happened during an unauthorized party. In July, Airbnb banned US and Canadian guests under age 25 with fewer than three positive reviews from booking entire homes close to where they live. It expanded that policy to the United Kingdom, Spain, and France last week. Airbnb said it also plans to expand a hotline for neighbors to report unauthorized parties."
They will cut off your power in California:
"The City of Los Angeles cut the power at a Hollywood Hills mansion rented by the TikTok stars Bryce Hall, Noah Beck and Blake Gray on Wednesday in response to parties held at the residence amid the coronavirus crisis. Mr. Hall hosted a party for his 21st birthday on Friday, Aug. 14; footage from the event posted to Instagram shows dozens of attendees crowded together in one room. After neighbors called in noise complaints, the event was shut down by the Los Angeles Police Department. That party took place at a rental home in Encino, not the Hollywood Hills home where the power was turned off on Wednesday, though Mr. Hall has hosted parties there too. On Aug. 5, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that the city would be shutting off the utilities at any address found to be hosting large gatherings....."
Turn off the social media and speak easy, kids!
He followed through on the totalitarian threat and he is still in office?
Now every day is Halloween:
"When a 17-year-old employee at Sesame Place, a Sesame Street theme park near Philadelphia, spotted two guests without masks last week, the teen asked the man and woman to cover their faces. Instead, the man punched the teen in the face, sending him crashing to the ground and then to the hospital, police said. On Wednesday, the U.S. Marshals Service and New York Police Department arrested the man suspected in the Aug. 9 assault at his home in the Bronx, Middletown Township police said. Troy McCoy, 39, faces aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and other charges in the attack. His roommate, Shakerra Bonds, 31, has also been charged with simple assault and criminal conspiracy and has arranged to turn herself in, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The teenage employee, who hasn’t been named, had a tooth removed and needed double jaw surgery after the assault, according to a GoFundMe set up by a family friend. Workers around the U.S. have dealt with a spate of violent attacks as they try to enforce mandatory mask rules, from Trader Joe’s employees beaten by irate customers in New York to a Family Dollar security guard fatally shot in Michigan....."
Once again, the Globe has a visible blind spot since the unmasked are constantly harassed fro not obey state diktats.
Can't even escape to the Black hills anymore:
"South Dakota health officials warned Thursday that a number of people who attended the 10-day Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this month, including some who came from out of state, have come down with COVID-19. Department of Health officials did not give an exact number of rallygoers who tested positive, but they said it was under 25. The rally, which ended Sunday, brought hundreds of thousands of people from far and wide to the city in the western part of the state. Even before it kicked off, some locals and officials expressed concern that COVID-19 could spread rapidly at the rally and that it would be hard to track rallygoers who got infected before heading home. The state’s health department has received reports from other states that people who traveled from the rally have tested positive, state epidemiologist Josh Clayton said. Contact tracers have been able to work with most people to determine who they were around and may have infected, but the health department has issued public warnings for two bars — one in Sturgis and the other at a popular stop for riders along U.S. Highway 385 near Mount Rushmore. Clayton said they did not know how many people were exposed at the bars. Sturgis is planning to conduct mass testing of its residents next week in an attempt to stem a possible outbreak of infections from the rally. The rally news comes amid an increase in the COVID-19 infection rate in South Dakota. Health officials reported Thursday that there were 125 new confirmed cases of the disease and two new deaths. Over the past two weeks, the average number of daily new cases has increased by 32, which is an increase of about 43%....."
Who didn't hear, 'er, see that coming as South Dakota pulled a Sweden and never really shut down and didn't destroy their economy. Now they are getting mass testing, so the lesson is cancel everything and keep people out while locking and loading.
Look what the Globe wants to $ave in Haverhill:
"Another day, another letter that must be fired off to a corporate titan imploring him to do the right thing. This time, it’s three members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation — Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, and Representative Lori Trahan — who are pressing Jamie Salter, chief executive of Authentic Brands Group and one of the new owners of Brooks Brothers, to reopen its Haverhill factory. The politicians’ request is not exactly wishful thinking. This is the second letter in a month that the congressional trio has sent about the Haverhill factory....."
The optics of what the Democrats profe$$ doesn't jibe well with that, and as for the letters, what happened? The USPS didn't deliver the first one?
Any jobs open over there?
"US jobless claims jump back above 1 million in face of virus" by Christopher Rugaber The Associated Press, August 20, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of laid-off workers seeking U.S. unemployment benefits rose to 1.1 million last week after two weeks of declines
The latest figures, released Thursday by the Labor Department, suggest that more than five months after the viral outbreak erupted the economy is still weak, despite recent gains as some businesses reopen and some sectors like housing and manufacturing have rebounded, evidence that many employers are still slashing jobs as the coronavirus bedevils the U.S. economy. A rising number of people who have lost jobs say they consider their loss to be permanent.
The only place the virus is not "bedeviling" the economy is the $tock market, where the Great Re$et globalists are are using all their loot from record highs to redesign our entire way of life across the planet.
I'm $ure this offen$ive and in$ulting $hit will $oon be forgotten as the markets set another high, but I'm getting sick of reading it, sorry.
The continuing stream of layoffs comes against the backdrop of a modest recovery from a deep recession and a virus that is still paralyzing much of the economy. Home construction and sales have bounced back. So have auto purchases, but spending on travel, entertainment and many other services remains weak. Small businesses are struggling, and unemployment, at 10.2%, remains elevated.
You see, ‘‘it’s unfortunate, and [they] understand there’s some pretty significant challenges that the airlines are facing and they’re going to work tirelessly with the local community and American Airlines to ensure that we can get the service back up as soon as possible.’’
To go where?
More Americans are eating at restaurants, but the level of seated dining is still 54% below pre-pandemic levels, according to OpenTable, and though some employers are hiring, economists suspect that the pace is weakening.
Thursday’s jobless claims report showed that in addition to people who applied last week for state benefits, roughly 540,000 others sought aid under the federal program for gig workers and others. That figure isn’t adjusted for seasonal variations, so it’s reported separately from the state figures.
Including the self-employed and gig workers already receiving benefits, 28 million people are receiving some form of jobless aid, though that figure may include double-counting in some states.....
Right, unemployed is lower because of double-counting, and COVID cases and deaths are higher because of the same damn thing! Double-dealing, both sides of the mouth liars!
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Meanwhile, John Williams, a former cabdriver in Slidell, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans, used to pick up fares at the New Orleans airport, but now, he's gone two days without taking his blood pressure medication and he's “hanging in there the best [he] can.”
Related:
Appeals court gives reprieve to Uber, Lyft in California
That didn't help him, and neither did the weather as the economy melts down for all but the very few at the top as things trickle down:
"Big technology companies powered more gains on Wall Street on Thursday, even as most stocks fell after more discouraging data on the economy, [and] as investors weighed new government data showing an increase in the number of Americans who sought unemployment aid last week. A separate report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said that manufacturing activity in its region is slowing. Like the jobless claims report, that reading was also weaker than economists had forecast. The discouraging reports helped send 2 in 3 stocks in the S&P 500 lower, but tech stocks in the S&P 500 nevertheless rose 1.4%, continuing a remarkable run of resilience that has carried through the pandemic. The industry has been delivering big profits as the pandemic accelerates work-from-home and other tech-friendly trends, and because they’re among the biggest stocks by total market value, their movements carry more weight on the index....."
It's $uddenly a weaker economy even as corporate profits were not as bad as they were expecting, and what do you think is funding the Great Re$et?!
It's like striking gold in Alaska:
"Republican push to block controversial Alaskan gold mine gains the White House’s attention" by Juliet Eilperin, Ashley Parker and Steven Mufson Washington Post, August 20, 2020
As President Trump posed for photos with donors at his eldest son’s Bridgehampton, N.Y., home on Aug. 8, precious metals magnate Andrew Sabin made a hasty pitch to the commander-in-chief: block the huge gold and copper mine his administration is poised to approve within weeks in order to protect Alaska’s sockeye salmon fishery.
Within moments, Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., joined the two men and made an impassioned case for halting Pebble Mine, which would be the largest one in North America. Situated near Bristol Bay, home to the world’s largest run of sockeye salmon, the project was revived after being nixed by the Obama administration. ‘‘For the three minutes, the president listened attentively to what Don Jr. was saying,’’ Sabin recalled in a phone interview.
I'm going to wait for a nibble before commenting.
This last-minute campaign by a handful of high-profile Republicans — including Vice President Mike Pence’s former chief of staff Nick Ayers, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and Trump Jr. — has prompted the White House to reassess the mine, according to two individuals familiar with the matter.
Why would Tucker be throwing his weight around here?
Both individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said administration officials are now weighing whether to delay granting a key permit to the mine’s sponsor, Pebble Limited Partnership.
The fact that the mine’s future is now in doubt marks an abrupt turn of fortunes, and underscores the freewheeling nature of decision-making in Trump’s White House, as well as the persuasive power of the unofficial lobbying campaign, both public and private, to block the mine.
The US Army Corps of Engineers spent two years analyzing the operation’s potential environmental impact, and concluded late last month that it would have ‘‘no measurable effect’’ on the area’s fish populations. That conclusion cleared the way for issuing a ‘‘record of decision’’ that the mine needs from the federal government.
Chris Wood, Trout Unlimited president, who has worked to marshal Republican opposition to the mine, said the flurry of appeals from members of Trump’s inner circle could prove decisive. Both Trump Jr. and Carlson are members of Trout Unlimited.
Oh, I SEE!
After the Great Cull and vaccine campaigns they tacitly endorse, they want places to go hunt and fish!
Pebble Limited Partnership CEO Tom Collier, however, said he remained optimistic the project would move forward.
‘‘I don’t see that this issue requires presidential involvement, and I don’t see any indication that the president is getting involved,’’ said Collier.....
I'm sorry, but you will be shut down like the rest of America so the lockdown looters can steal that, too.
After all, it is ostensibly the AMERICAN PEOPLE'S PROPERTY!
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Of course, how will we power our world without it:
"A Connecticut-based electricity supplier has agreed to pay as much as $10 million to settle allegations by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey that the company used deceptive sales tactics to persuade consumers to sign up for overpriced electric plans....."
Another kickback in her quiver, and how is the state police investigation going?
A Connecticut-based electricity supplier has agreed to settle allegations by Attorney General Maura Healey that the company used deceptive sales tactics to persuade consumers to sign up for overpriced electric plans (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff)
Can't find anyone to snitch on them, huh?
Keep the firefighters, though:
"Fire stations will receive new industrial-grade washer and dryer systems to clean gear and help combat occupational cancer thanks to a donation from a California-based charity that aids veterans and first responders. The Gary Sinise Foundation, founded by the Academy Award-nominated actor whose movies include Forrest Gump, donated $388,137 to the Boston Firefighters Burn Foundation...."
They should be compensated for the cancers, and they might be pretty busy this fall:
"Massachusetts is abnormally dry right now, and most of the state is experiencing moderate to severe drought conditions, according to the United States Drought Monitor. A map released Thursday morning showed that about 60 percent of Massachusetts was going through a moderate drought and about 25 percent of the state was experiencing severe drought conditions. “In the Northeast, anomalously warm temperatures and below-normal precipitation during the past 90-day period have led to deterioration in drought-related conditions in parts of New England—including Massachusetts where state officials declared a Level 2 drought on August 14 for all regions of the state,” the US Drought Monitor reported. Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Kathleen Theoharides said three months of limited rainfall combined with above normal temperatures in July and August has led to dry conditions across the state. This has left grasses, shrubs, and forests very dry, which increases the risk of fire, officials said. Residents and businesses are urged to " . . . take extra care to conserve water both indoors and outdoors,” Theoharides said."
I do my part, always have with the precious necessities of life, and after stealing our freedom they now want to reserve the water for themselves in more ways than one:
"City officials on Thursday urged boaters to comply with COVID-19 related health guidelines while out on their vessels, amid a rise in unsafe behavior on the water. In a joint statement, Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken, Police Chief Edward Conley and Harbormaster TJ Ciarametaro said there’s been a rise in boating accidents and reports of illegal activity, such as underage drinking and boating while intoxicated. State officials on Tuesday revised guidelines to say that no more than three boats should tie up together on waterways. Violations have been an issue in the Wingaershee Beach and Annisquam River area, the statement said, “and it simply isn’t safe,” Ciarametaro said in the statement. “There will be a number of agencies heavily patrolling the area this weekend and for the remainder of the summer to ensure people are socially distancing and are also being safe on the water.” Conley said police will increase its presence on the river and “focusing on safety equipment checks, underage drinking enforcement and boating under the influence detection.”
Yeah, look the other way on the pedophile predators of the ruling class and worry about underaged drinking on the boat, I mean it's not like there are any crimes to solve anymore:
"A 30-year-old Natick man was arrested early Thursday for allegedly stabbing another patron at the Encore Boston Harbor casino, State Police said. David E. Guante, allegedly stabbed a 24-year-old Lynn man around 2 a.m. during an altercation in the main cashier area, troopers said in a statement. Guante was arraigned on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon Thursday in Malden District Court. A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf, records show. He was ordered held on $2,500 cash bail, and to stay away from the alleged victim and the Encore if he posts, as well as possess no weapons including knives, according to legal filings. Guante’s court-appointed lawyer, Elyse M. Hershon, said in a brief phone interview that the materials she’s reviewed so far indicate that “my client is not guilty of any crime.” His alleged victim was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment of a minor puncture wound, State Police said. "
At least you can bet on pro $port$ soon.
