The Vail Automotive Classic, relocating to Lionshead Village for its 11th year, is happening this weekend. Despite multitudes of challenges for event organizers nationwide, the car show is able to offer a guest experience that’s remarkably close to what it would have been without the pandemic, just with social distancing […]
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Local Uber Driver Makes $100k A Year Driving 84 Hours A Week
Over the weekend, a video following one UberEats driver’s progress towards $100,000 a year went viral—brought to you by Grow, a sponsored content partnership between CNBC and Acorns, a financial services company. “This Uber Eats driver is on track to make $100,000 a year – here’s how he’s doing it” […]
New Benelli TNT 600i & Other Bigger Capacity Motorcycles To Launch Next Year In India
A Week At A University In Detroit, MI, That Costs $30,000 A Year
Welcome to Money Diaries — College Edition where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last dollar. Today: a public health major at a university that costs $30,000 per […]
Mother, 52, reveals how she overcame a 25 year addiction to prescription painkillers
Nicki Hari took up to 20 painkillers a day at the height of her addiction. (Supplied) A mother has revealed how she overcame an addiction to painkillers that spanned a quarter of a century. Nicki Hari, 52, from Hertfordshire, was first prescribed paracetamol and ibuprofen for persistent knee pain when […]
Chinese automaker Kandi plans to bring a $13,000 electric car to the US this year, slashing the entry price of EV ownership
Kandi K23. Kandi America Kandi Technologies Group, a Chinese auto company, announced this week that it’s launching two ultra-affordable electric vehicles in the US later this year. After federal tax credits, Kandi’s K23 and K27 hatchbacks will cost $12,999 and $22,499, respectively, the company said. According to initial details, the […]
Some parents want to hire tutors, start mini schools this year. Most can’t afford to.
CHICAGO – Millions of parents across the nation are facing difficult decisions about what to do with their kids this school year. But the pandemic affects every family differently, for reasons that range from their socioeconomic status to their health to the fields they work in. Some parents are in a […]
One year later, El Paso reflects on the hate behind Walmart shooting
Roberto Jurado hid with his 88-year-old mother between toy machines at the entrance of the Cielo Vista Walmart. Lying in broken glass, he listened as the sound of gunshots grew closer. Then the man with the AK-47 was only 10 feet away. “That day, I believe I stared death in the […]
Online school? Some parents want to hire tutors, start mini schools this year. Most can’t afford to.
CHICAGO – Millions of parents across the nation are facing difficult decisions about what to do with their kids this school year. But the pandemic affects every family differently, for reasons that range from their socioeconomic status to their health to the fields they work in. Some parents are in a […]
Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale This Year
ICYMI, Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale is quickly approaching. Get out your calendars and save the date: It’s open to everyone August 19-30 and cardmembers can get in as early as August 4, so get those credit cards ready. In case you haven’t had the pleasure of shopping this much-anticipated yearly sale, […]
Miami-Dade County Public Schools to begin school year online only and later Aug. 31 date
Miami-Dade County Public Schools will start the school year remotely — and late — on Aug. 31, school officials announced Wednesday. Students, parents and teachers have been anticipating what some would say was an inevitable decision by school officials. With less than a month to go and an infection rate […]
BK Parents Search For School Year Plans
BROOKLYN, NY — Parents asked by the city to decide by Aug. 7 whether to send their kids back for in-person classes this fall say they still don’t have enough information to make that call, two weeks before the deadline. Hundreds of parents tuned in Thursday for a Town Hall […]
As the School Year Approaches, Education May Become the Pandemic’s Latest Casualty
Children tumble off a yellow school bus, where every other seat is marked with caution tape. Wearing whimsical masks—one has whiskers, another rhinestones—they wait to get their temperatures checked before filing into the one-story school building. Inside Wesley Elementary in Middletown, Conn., plastic shields rise from desks, and cartoon posters […]
D202 Proposal To Start School Year With Remote Learning Fails
PLAINFIELD, IL — A proposal for Plainfield District 202 students to start the 2020-21 school year with remote learning failed by a 3-3 vote at Monday’s regular Board of Education meeting. The proposed Return ’20 Plan would have required students to start remote learning Aug. 24, with the possibility of […]
Netflix has 113 brand new shows coming out this year (so far). See them all here.
Katherine Langford as Nimue in “Cursed.” Netflix Netflix currently has 113 brand new TV shows slated to premiere in 2020. Insider is keeping a running list of the confirmed shows and what we know about them so far. Up next in July is a new fantasy series called “Cursed,” reality […]
Michigan tourism industry says this is “a year simply to survive”
CBS News is chronicling what has changed for the lives of residents across the nation in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Heidi Gesiakowski and her husband Joel opened Taste, a small plates and martini restaurant, in South Haven, a beach town on the eastern shores of Lake Michigan, in 2013. When […]
24 Ways To Maximize Your Paycheck This Year
Paychecks come but they go even faster as expenses quickly mount. Though your pay may be limited, the ways you can creatively cut costs and maximize your money are not. If you need a little extra money, here are 24 ways to stretch your paycheck and make it bigger each […]
94 Money-Making Skills You Can Learn in Less Than a Year
Learning a new business skill is an excellent way to break into an industry, make yourself more attractive to employers or earn more money and responsibility in your current career. But between work, family and life, the thought of spending years in a classroom can be overwhelming. Fortunately, you don’t […]