Denver United Airlines warns of massive layoffs without federal aid – msnNOW
April 11, 2020
Leaders of United Airlines and its labor unions are raising the threat of massive layoffs if Washington doesn’t provide “sufficient” help to the airline industry by the end of this month. © Provided by Associated Press A Delta Airlines jetliner waits for a Southwest jetliner to taxi pst on the way to a runway for…
Denver Charter Employees Clash With Managers Over ISP’s ‘Self-Serving’ No-Work-From-Home Policy
April 10, 2020
Photo: GettyAs companies continue to shutter amid the ongoing global pandemic, urging and in some cases mandating that staff continue to work from home, one of the country’s largest telecommunications providers is facing allegations that top executives, contrary to expert medical advice, have prohibited employees from working remotely. This, even though the company has acknowledged…
Denver Many Cities Halt Evictions, But Many Renters Still Need Help
April 10, 2020
Angelica Rico says she lost all of her income this week when she was furloughed from her job as a digital marketing specialist. She doesn’t know how she’ll be able to pay rent on her apartment in Southern California. Courtesy of Autumn Littiken hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Autumn Littiken Angelica Rico says she…
Denver Ventilator Makers Race to Prevent a Possible Scarcity
April 10, 2020
Eric Gjerde, CEO of Airon Corporation, a small ventilator maker in Gainesville, Florida, has been getting far more business than he’d like in recent weeks. An Italian company asked him for 2,000 machines. His distributor in California, working with state officials there, asked for 500 more. Normally, his company sells 50 “in a good month,”…
Denver If Robots Steal So Many Jobs, Why Aren’t They Saving Us Now?
April 10, 2020
Modern capitalism has never seen anything quite like the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In a matter of months, the deadly contagious bug has spread around the world, hobbling any economy in its path. In the United States, where consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of economic activity, commerce has come to a standstill as people…
Denver New York just opened its first drive-through coronavirus test facility at the site of a major outbreak
April 9, 2020
On March 13, New York state opened its first drive-through coronavirus testing site in the town of New Rochelle. The goal is to diagnose potential COVID-19 patients without exposing healthcare workers to the disease. The site will test up to 200 people a day, with plans to expand its capacity to 500 people a day, according to…
Racked by tragedy and chaos, DCIS parents say new principal selection highly flawed
December 20, 2019
Another Denver school community is challenging DPS central administration leadership, this time a familiar controversy over community input in the future direction of a school. Parent leaders and activists have sent a scathing multi-page letter detailing events in a principal selection process that appears to have been manipulated to isolate community. Denver Center for International Studies […]
Denver Blizzard cautioning: Airlines cancel 1,200 flights, waive costs
March 30, 2019
Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide LATEST UPDATE (Thursday, March 14): Air travelers faced another day of weather-related flight disruptions on Thursday thanks to a powerful “bomb cyclone” moving through the Rockies, Great Plains and upper Midwest. Full story: Blizzard! Airlines have canceled 3,300 flights since Wednesday PREVIOUS VERSION: Airlines have canceled nearly 2,000 flights Wednesday as a…
Denver Greenland’s major glacier sees ‘temporary’ growth, however its future stays bleak – International News
March 28, 2019
A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds. The Jakobshavn (YA-cob-shawv-en) glacier around 2012 was retreating about 3 kilometres and thinning nearly 40 metres annually. But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two…
Denver Demaryius Thomas arrested, implicated of car assault
March 24, 2019
AP Published 12:50 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2019 | Updated 8:46 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2019 DENVER (AP) — Former Denver Broncos and Houston Texans receiver Demaryius Thomas is facing a felony charge of vehicular assault stemming from a crash earlier this month. Thomas was arrested Wednesday after turning himself in and was also held…