Photograph: Jordan Vonderhaar/Rex/Shutterstock Walter Almendarez doubts there will be any presents beneath his artificial Christmas tree – not for his daughter, his nephews or anyone else. Back in March, Almendarez reread an email over and over again, trying to process the news that he had just been let go from […]

Seven Springs Mountain Ski Resort and Hidden Valley Ski Resort opened earlier this month for the season, putting precautions in place to keep patrons safe during the pandemic. “We’re really asking for people to stay outside and not come into any of the offices,” said Alex Moser, director of marketing. […]

Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP/Shutterstock Industries across the globe have struggled in 2020, but there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. With the rollout of various COVID-19 vaccines, there is some hope that both businesses and consumers alike can get back to normal sometime in 2021. However, […]

PSEW-PSEW-PSEW-PSEW-PSEW-PSEW-PSEW Retired ornithologist Dan Casey looked through the trees on the eastern edge of the Flathead Waterfowl Production Area, waiting for something to flit among the branches in response to his call. PSEW-PSEW-PSEW-PSEW-PSEW-PSEW-PSEW “They usually respond well to this call,” Casey said. “It’s like a generic frequency or alarm call.” […]

FILE – In this Wednesday, June 24, 2020, file photo, Southwest Airlines jets sit at gates at Love Field in Dallas. On Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, the airline warned nearly 7,000 employees that they could lose their jobs unless labor unions accept concessions to help Southwest cope with a sharp […]

With 2020 drawing to a close, many long-term investors are starting to ask themselves, “what’s next?” That’s because today feels much like the year 2000 — a decade that began with great hopes for tech companies like AOL, Yahoo and Xerox, but ended with a reckoning. In fact, the tech-heavy […]

For Immediate Release              Chicago, IL – December 28, 2020 – Zacks Equity Research highlights Rocket Companies RKT as the Bull of the Day and Booking Holdings BKNG as the Bear of the Day. Here is a synopsis of both the stocks: Bull of the Day:                                                  There’s a theme to […]

Photo credit: Grizzly Media From Bicycling With COVID-19 restrictions continuing to cancel in-person races, many athletes are feeling virtual event fatigue. There are only so many times you can race yourself against the clock in your own neighborhood. That’s why Old Man Winter Rally, traditionally a one-day winter biking and […]

pokaOn the Friday of an unusually warm weekend in early October, my wife, kids and I raced south on Interstate 57 for almost 4 hours to get in one last camping trip of the season. There were no reservable sites available online for Coon Creek Recreation Area on Lake Shelbyville, […]

Humble newspaper is such an incredibly useful tool. For years, we tossed it in to the heifers, who ran and kicked the newspaper around before happily flopping down into its bedding softness. Newspaper is perfect for polishing window glass, sopping up dirty, wet footprints right inside the door during snowstorms […]

No one can point to a date certain for the birthday of pizza. It seems likely that pizzas developed over a long period of time. Flatbreads have existed in Mediterranean cultures for hundreds of years, with various sauces being slathered across them to satisfy hunger of the masses. But pizzas […]

2020 was unlike any other year in our lifetimes, with the once-in-a-century global pandemic, then the just-as-unpredictable stock market recovery and subsequent bull market. After such an unpredictable year, it may seem foolhardy to predict where things may go in 2021. Yet if one really looks under the hood, some […]

In a year like no other, the South Florida economy experienced unprecedented upheaval. In Miami-Dade, more than 451,000 workers — about two out of every seven members of the county’s pre-pandemic workforce — applied for unemployment; in Broward, more than 311,000. Many of them worked in the tourism and hospitality […]

By Liz Weston Recreational vehicle sales are soaring, and the RV industry expects 2021 to be a record-breaking year. Dealerships say much of the demand is coming from first-time buyers and others anxious to find a safer way to vacation during the pandemic. As any RV owner will tell you, […]