Month: July 2020

Campins Group founder Katrina Campins discusses how the booming real estate market is helping the U.S. out of an economic recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Villages is an active over-55 community north of Orlando in central Florida. The unique community offers recreation, shopping, dining and health care, with 50 golf courses, 12 country clubs and three town squares, according to TheVillagesFlorida.com. It also has more than 90 miles of golf cart paths. The Villages' population grew rapidly during the past decade from about 94,000 in 2010 to more than 125,000 as of 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The Villages, a retirement community in Florida. (iStock) HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN GET FOR $700,000 IN MILWAUKEE As in most of the U.S., the local residential m...

As coronavirus cases began to grow in San Joaquin County in June, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs proposed requiring citizens to wear a mask in his city in the center of the fertile valley, where agriculture is king and poverty pervasive. The response he received from the county emergency services director, a key figure in coordinating the pandemic response, was disquieting, he said. “Stay in your lane,” wrote Shellie Lima in a June 9 email to Tubbs obtained by The Times, days before the county allowed card rooms, hotels and day camps to open. “I am against the proposed mask ordinance for Stockton ... Why would our elected officials feel that they have the medical understanding to do so?” Farmworkers take a break to eat breakfast while weeding a tomato field in French Camp, Calif. (...

“Each time journalists want more, it’s a struggle to get it,” said Pamela Marsh, president of the First Amendment Foundation, a Florida non-profit group that advocates open government. “In the very early days, the state wouldn’t give the names of nursing homes. Then they gave the names, then the press asked for numbers within the nursing homes. More recently, it took two or three weeks for the state to provide numbers on hospitalizations.”

A Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant who was one of 17 people to test positive for coronavirus after attending in-person training event, died Tuesday, the company confirmed. Jeff Kurtzman and 16 others contracted the respiratory illness after attending the course in Honolulu in late June, the company confirmed to NBC Los Angeles, adding that it is now investigating if the cluster of cases stemmed from the training. Kurtzman, 60, was admitted to hospital after returning home to Los Angeles and tested positive for COVID-19, Hawaiian Airlines CEO Peter Ingram confirmed in an email to staff, that was forwarded by the airline to NBC News after repeated requests for a statement. He died on July 21. Kurtzman had worked for the airline since 1986, Ingram's email said. "Over the past three decad...