Author: Elizabeth

Thousands Gather For Traverse City Women’s March

Elizabeth

Traverse CityWinter is a magical season in Traverse City The nice outdoor name your identify and invite you to play in the freshly fallen blankets of snow.

The Great Lakes Central Railroad (GLCR) gives freight rail service to the Traverse City space on observe owned by the state of Michigan. The tracks were once owned by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (ex- Pere Marquette Railway ) and the Pennsylvania Railroad (ex- Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad ) however have been bought by the state within the late 1970s and early 1980s to protect rail service within the area. Current freight visitors contains fruit/perishables, scrap metal, and lumber.

The metropolis has seen some progressive improvement projects, including the continued conversion of a sprawling state psychological hospital campus into the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, a combined-use facility with tree-lined sidewalks and expansive lawns connecting housing, retail and upscale eating. The Village Piazza … Read more

Woman lures men to NYC hotels, where cohorts rob them

Elizabeth

A 20-something woman has been using Facebook to lure men to Bronx hotels, where two armed cohorts then rob the trio’s victims, cops say.

Investigators are looking at five such robberies between July 7 and Tuesday, police said.

“Once both [the woman and victim] are inside of the hotel room, the female instructs the male to take a shower, and while he is in the bathroom she lets into the hotel room another female and a male,” the NYPD said.

“When the victim exits the bathroom the second female and the male both display firearms at the victim and threaten to shoot him.”

The three robbers then use duct tape to bind their victims and remove personal property, including the clothes that the targets are wearing, as well as cash and cellphones. No injuries requiring hospitalization were reported in any of the incidents.

The first incident happened around 6:30 pm

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No signs of travel slowdown

Elizabeth

Data: Marriott; Table: Simran Parwani/Axios

The world’s largest hotel company said it’s noticing any signs of consumers balking at traveling despite concerns about the economy.

Driving the news: Marriott International posted a 70% year-over-year increase in second-quarter revenue to $5.34 billion as people grew more comfortable traveling during the pandemic.

  • “While we are closely monitoring consumer and macroeconomic trends, we have yet to see signs of a slowdown in global lodging demand,” Marriott CEO Anthony Capuano said on a conference call, pointing to pentup demand and “the shift of spending towards experiences versus goods ” as drivers of the company’s surging finances.

Yes, but: Marriott’s high-end chains are bouncing back faster than its limited-service brands.

  • The company’s luxury hotels in the US and Canada (including the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott) recorded a 76.2% increase in revenue per available room on a constant-currency basis, while its US-and-Canada premium hotels (including the
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