“Updating the Women’s Health Coverage Act” refers to the proposed Advancing Women’s Health Coverage Act (AWHCA), a bipartisan bill introduced in late 2025 to modernize the original1998 Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA). It would expand coverage for breast …

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Empathy is important to healthy relationships. It’s our brain’s way of putting ourselves into someone else’s shoes. To step aside from our own feelings for a moment and realize what the other person might be going through. It’s an unselfish emotion that makes us better people, better friends…

Scientists estimate that around 117 billion humans have ever lived on Earth since the dawn of Homo sapiens, approximately 192,000 years ago. Of course, this dramatic increase in the world’s population is a relatively new phenomenon. For many thousands of years, there were fewer people roaming the Earth than would live in a mid-sized city of today…

The bar located exactly three miles north of our home, has undergone several iterations since our move to the country from Detroit, in 2002. This one is the best and an absolute treat to visit, Wednesday through Sunday. Located at 5827 M-76 in Alger, MI, it’s a homey place that always makes you feel welcome. Clean, nicely decorated with a Nordic feel (think Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) and the friendliest service provided by owners Lisa and Steve, and their superb wait staff, including Melisa, their talented cook. Don’t believe me, just look at their reviews…