Text size Arbor Investments focuses on food-and-beverage investments. Lacheev/Dreamstime Arbor Investments needed only 87 days to raise its fifth fund, collecting $1.5 billion in the latest bit of evidence that life goes on for private equity despite the pandemic. The pool is roughly double the $765 million secured by Arbor’s […]

© Courtesy of Ridge Vineyards Local Getaways: Why the Santa Cruz Mountains Offer the Escape to Nature We All Need Right Now In my seven years of living in Northern California, I had always thought of the Santa Cruz Mountains, which stretch along the peninsula just south of San Francisco, […]

Image source: The Motley Fool. Pearson PLC (NYSE:PSO)Q3 2020 Earnings CallOct 14, 2020, 3:30 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Hello and welcome to the Pearson Q3 Trading Update Analysts Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode and afterwards there’ll be a question-and-answer session. […]

Judge Amy Coney BarrettAmy Coney BarrettLike Scalia, Amy Coney Barrett shares an ‘originalist’ view on Second Amendment Senators dial down rhetoric at Barrett hearing after 2018 Kavanaugh brawl Twitter reacts to Barrett misspeaking about approaching cases with an ‘open wine’: ‘Me too, girl’ MORE emerged largely unscathed from three days […]

The current global pandemic has many Americans rethinking the way they travel. Road trips and camping vacations have grown in popularity, as many Americans have discovered the country has more than its fair share of stunning natural landscapes, from the Grand Canyon to Acadia National Park. Some people have even […]

United Airlines Holdings Inc. UAL 0.99% said it is positioning itself to ride out a long downturn in air travel as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. It was a brutal summer for U.S. airlines. Rising infection rates triggered new travel restrictions across the country, keeping passengers at home. United […]

With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to put many Americans’ vacations and hotel stays on hold, road trips to a nearby Airbnb are becoming more popular. Vacation rental marketplaces, like Airbnb, have gained traction as a home away from home for large group sizes, and even more so now as a […]

Like most Pacific Northwest race tracks, Hermiston Raceway had a tough summer, what with COVID shutting the facility down most of the time. But the racing Waldens — Greg, Laci, Wayne and the rest of the track-promoting family — plan on one final season blowout, set for Oct. 24. The […]

Towing a teardrop camper is highly viable – and you can expect a range of about ~150 miles for 1000 pounds of trailer. Obviously, this depends on road conditions, trailer type, and wind conditions. Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted on Reddit. The author granted InsideEVs permission to use it […]

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — Rover, the rescue cat, is strutting his way to internet fame. As his online bio says the fashionable feline is “living [his] best nine lives.” “All of my cameras are filled with Rover,” said Rover’s caretaker/mom, Angelina Kayyalaynen. “We’ve received so many different positive messages on […]

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Most nights, people fight and scream outside the small room where Elizabeth Maldonado and her four children sleep—or try to, at least—at a homeless shelter in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. Maldonado’s 15-year-old daughter, in particular, fears that if […]

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Georgia broke a record on the first day of early in-person voting, and well over 1 million voters have requested absentee ballots. Because of COVID-19, early voting options are more widely available for a longer period of time this election season. As always, voting in person […]

Back when the pandemic made celebrating St. Patrick’s Day off-limits, we had little reason to believe Halloween would suffer the same fate. And then two weeks of shutdown became two months became who knows. And now it’s mid-October, and Halloween is just the latest in a long series of days […]

CLOSE GREEN BAY – Employment has been growing, but still many people are seeking jobs in the wake of widespread unemployment as the coronavirus took hold of Wisconsin early this year. Preliminary data places August’s unemployment rate at 6.2%. That’s less than half of what it was in April, but still double March’s […]

“This is to protect lives in Utah, to protect the lives of visitors,” said Vicki Varela, managing director of the Utah Office of Tourism. “That’s what our visitors are watching for. They want to know that they’re coming to a place where people are showing personal responsibility.” After bleeding millions […]