A new drug epidemic is threating older Americans. It is not one of the usual suspects: heroin, cocaine, or meth. It is a legal drug which your doctor can prescribe as a painkiller. Maybe you even have some pills in your medicine cabinet now. According to “The Opioid Menace,” an article in the June 2017 […]
Asian carp, a family of fish native to Asia and parts of Europe, were introduced to the United States in the 1970’s to control weed and parasite growth in aquatic farms in the South. Flooding and human error have allowed the carp to escape the fish farms and to get into the Mississippi River and […]
Why would anyone pay $60 to $250 for a pair of worn out looking blue jeans with holes in the thighs, busted knees, shredded fabric, and frayed hems? Why indeed? What used to go into the rag box or the garbage can is now high fashion. When Levi Strauss, a peddler who sold his goods […]
During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the formation of the Civil Works Administration in 1933. The federal government hired unemployed men to build parks, repair schools, construct athletic fields and swimming pools. Others tutored the illiterate. At its inception, the program employed 2.5 million in a month’s time. At its peak, it […]