As virus roars back, so do signs of a new round of layoffs

PAUL WISEMAN, TRAVIS LOLLER and KELLI KENNEDY

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The reopening of Tucson's historic Hotel Congress lasted less than a month.

General manager Todd Hanley on June 4 ended a two-month coronavirus lockdown and reopened the 39-room hotel at half-capacity, along with an adjoining restaurant for outdoor dining. Yet with reported COVID-19 cases spiking across Arizona, Hanley made the painful decision last weekend to give up, for now.

"We are closing everything,'' he said. "We are going to live to fight another day.''

The move means that once again, most of Hanley's empl...