Photo by Kryuchka Yaroslav / Shutterstock.com Cars are a necessary part of modern life. In fact, about 95% of U.S. households own at least one vehicle, according to the federal government. Unfortunately, cars are expensive — to buy, insure and maintain. You can cut down on the last of these …
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Like a lot of people out there, I have a handful of local businesses that I really love. There are a couple local microbreweries in central Iowa that make amazing stuff and currently have the doors closed on their restaurants and pubs. There’s a local pizza shop that my family …
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A few nights ago, after their 18-month-old son Nolan went to sleep, Adam Hill and Neena Budhraja sat down on the living room couch in their apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Pen and paper in hand, they turned their attention to a pressing need: figuring out who would be Nolan’s legal …
Read More »The Calculus of Coronavirus Care
Yesterday, I received a text from a colleague whose sister is in charge of nursing at one of my city’s major hospitals. Two of her nurses had just quit, in tears. “They were fed up,” she said. “They couldn’t take it any longer.” As anyone, like me, who has worked …
Read More »Some Assisted-Living Residents Don’t Get Promised Care, Suit Charges
The letter went out to about 1,900 Californians a few weeks ago from law firms bringing a class-action suit against one of the country’s largest assisted-living chains. If the recipients, or their family members, had lived in a community operated by Sunrise Senior Living in recent years, “we would like …
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