A free stopover on your flight could be the start of an even better vacation

You know all about one-way flights and round-trip flights, and nonstop flights and connecting flights, but do you know about stopover flights? That’s when you connect through a particular airport, deplane for a day or two, then continue to your destination. Besides the visit-two-cities-for-the-price-of-one aspect, stopovers let you recover from a long flight by breaking…

By JohnValbyNation October 24, 2019 0

GM strike's fate hinges on a few factories' workers

A tentative agreement between General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers union to end a more than five-week strike hinges on ratification by a handful of large branches, including a pickup-truck plant in Flint, Mich., that voted on the deal Wednesday. The factory’s 4,800 workers and two other big facilities — another truck plant…

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Carbon38 co-founder Katie Warner Johnson is disrupting activewear one sports bra at a time

Katie Warner Johnson, chief executive officer and co-founder of upscale activewear company Carbon38, pumped her arms into the air with Richard Simmons-esque enthusiasm. It was as if she was leading an exercise class or performing a routine from a Broadway musical, both of which are familiar for the former professional dancer and fitness instructor. Johnson,…

By JohnValbyNation October 24, 2019 0

'My parents are from a frightened generation, but there is another generation that is not afraid'

SANTIAGO, Chile —  “The people, united, will never be defeated,” chanted a lone masked woman in the middle of Plaza Baquedano, a central gathering spot in Chile’s capital. As she repeated the phrase, thousands of people, mostly young, ran in all directions, fleeing water cannons and tear gas, as Chilean police sought to disperse some 20,000…

By JohnValbyNation October 24, 2019 0