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2022-02-20 Missouri Takes Months to Process Medicaid Applications — Longer Than Law Allows Bram Sable-Smith and Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Aneka French applied for Medicaid in October, not long after Missouri became the 38th state to expand eligibility for the program. But her application sat for months in a backlog with tens of […]
Yoko Ono’s prophetic vision of self-care To Yoko Ono, imaginative acts were a form of survival. Susan Wood/Getty Images Brigid Cohen, New York University Light a match and watch till it goes out. Go to the middle of Central Park Pond and drop all your jewelry. Scream against the sky. When a young Yoko Ono […]
We feel, and studies suggest, that cooking can be a form of therapy for many. On Sunday, we post recipes for those looking for new ways to diversify their cookbooks (we do not get paid for this). —Editorial Team. Made with Love Set the table for romance with a delicious date night […]
2022-02-19 ‘I Just Want to Stay in One Spot’: From Homeless to Housed in Rugged Del Norte Anna Maria Barry-Jester CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — On a rainy winter morning, Jamie Hayden stopped in to visit with Diane Timothio. A case manager in Del Norte County on California’s remote northern coast, Hayden comes by often, […]
Connecting Military Parents and Children, One Story at a Time (StatePoint) For deployed service members who are also parents, being away from their kids is often the hardest part of the job. This is why the United Service Organizations (USO) has prioritized connecting military parents with their families. One way to bring service […]
BookTrib’s Bites: Four to Keep You Reading Through the Night (NewsUSA)“Sins of the Fathers” by Herbert J. Stern and Alan A. WinterIn the tradition of Herman Wouk, this eye-opening historical sequel to “Wolf” tells the dramatic true story of the foolish prime minister who undermined the coup to topple Hitler, delivered Czechoslovakia to Hitler, saved […]
2022-02-19 Demand for Service Dogs Unleashes a ‘Wild West’ Market Markian Hawryluk Jenni Mahnaz admits she’s not much of a dog person. She’s mildly allergic and the only pet she had as a child was a hermit crab. But once she learned that specially trained dogs could help her daughters with their […]
2022-02-18 What Does It Say About Your Neighborhood If the Supermarket Isn’t So Super? Chaseedaw Giles Though I grew up in Roxbury, “the heart of Black culture in Boston,” I now live in Los Angeles, where I typically shop for groceries at Whole Foods Market or Trader Joe’s. Their produce is fresh, green, abundant. […]
2022-02-18 Deer, mink and hyenas have caught COVID-19 – animal virologists explain how to find the coronavirus in animals and why humans need to worry White-tailed deer are one of the few wild species that scientists have found to be infected with the coronavirus – at least so far. Andrew C/WikimediaCommons, CC BY Sue VandeWoude, Colorado […]
A letter to my daughter By: Garret Belisle We are all looking to find that special person to share our lives with through the ups and downs and everything that comes with it and hopefully that person has a positive outlook and will truly love us for who we are. Always remember that you […]