United Air Tops Profit Estimates, Plans $2 Billion Buyback

Healthcare for the unhoused is a mess. Akido Labs believes it can be part of the solution. One October afternoon on a graffiti-strewn stretch of downtown Los Angeles, Dr. Steven Hochman was checking up on his patients. A street medicine specialist who has spent the last year working with Akido Labs, a tech-focused healthcare group, Hochman makes weekly visits to this makeshift neighborhood of plywood encampments and busted-up campers.

As part of New York City’s waterfront master plan, industrial-damaged waterways are being transformed into leisure space. At Malt Drive Park, a new waterfront public space on the southern edge of the NYC neighborhood Long Island City, visitors can walk along a meandering pathway with a mostly unobstructed view of the mouth of Newtown Creek.

At COP29, there are more than 1,700 oil and gas lobbyists pushing for a seat at the negotiating table. The fossil fuel industry’s presence at this year’s UN climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan has been simultaneously heavy-handed and covert. More than 1,770 lobbyists—including the heads of some major oil and gas corporations—have been granted access to the talks, many as guests of the host country.

Two women clad in sheer pearl-dotted bodysuits with giant white roses strapped to their heads greet guests entering a Fashion Week party at Hotel Fouquet’s in New York City. A sign outside the room notes that the capacity is 74 people, but more than 200 guests have RSVP’d. The noise is deafening, though that matters little: the point of this party is to photograph and be photographed.

Colorado employers continued their autumn hiring spree, adding another 9,000 net payroll jobs last month on top of a revised 13,800 they added in September, according to a monthly update from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Private sector jobs rose by 7,800 positions while governments added 1,200 jobs, bringing the total to 3.02 million payroll jobs in the state. Hiring last month was strongest in professional and business services at 2,800, leisure and hospitality at 2,500 and trade, transportation and utilities at 1,100.

New apartments and retail may be coming to RiNo. Denver-based Steele Properties submitted plans to the city last month calling for the development of a 60,000-square-foot, 40-unit income-restricted apartment building where Downing and Walnut Streets meet. A Steele Properties spokeswoman declined to comment, noting the proposal is in the early stages. The land at 3707 Walnut St.