Jill on Money: Questions and answers ripped from the headlines

 By Jill Schlesinger

Tribune Content Agency
 
The news cycle has prompted many of you to write in ask a number of questions about terms that you read and hear about. These answers are intended to help you understand what you need to know about various policy initiatives that could be coming. 
 

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PET WORLD: ‘Leave it’ solves a host of doggie transgressions

 By Cathy M. Rosenthal

Tribune Content Agency
 
  Dear Cathy,
 
  I have some new neighbors that moved in with an outdoor cat. The cat uses our yard as her potty box. Our two dogs have found this cat poop delectable and they eat these deposits before I can remove them from the yard. Is there something I can do to dissuade my dogs from eating this poop? Thank you in advance for any insights. – Wendy Rutland, Pensacola, Fla.

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Celebrating Donate Life Month

 

Reminding residents of the more than 3,500 people in Michigan awaiting a potentially life-saving organ transplant, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson today recognized April as Donate Life Month during a visit to St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit.
 

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Michigan Launches New Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to Help Prevent Opioid Abuse

  Prescribers now provided with enhanced real-time information through state-of the-art technology

 
As part of Michigan’s multi-faceted strategy to prevent opioid abuse, the state has launched a new Michigan Automated Prescription System (MAPS). Appriss Health’s PMP AWARxE, replaces the old MAPS and puts Michigan at the forefront of prescription drug monitoring technology.
 

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Excuse me, are you listening? 16-7

 Dear Readers,

 
I am hoping that longer days are helping you deal with cabin fever.  It has been a long winter.  I know that it was mild but it just seems as though the sun does not stay out long enough.  The clouds seem to cover the sun more often than not.  It has just been a dreary time.

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Teacher resignation letters paint bleak picture of US education

 EAST LANSING, MI — As teacher resignation letters increasingly go public — and viral — new research indicates teachers are not leaving solely due to low pay and retirement, but also because of what they see as a broken education system.

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Researchers find promising lead that reduces autism symptoms and more

 EAST LANSING, MI –Fragile X syndrome is the most common cause of autism. Even though the single gene that’s responsible for it was discovered in 1991, and the disease is detected by a simple blood test, there’s no treatment or cure.

 

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Movie: “Going in Style”

 

Morgan Freeman as Willie, Michael Caine as Joe Harding and Alan Arkin as Albert Garner

Studio:  Warner Bros. (1hr 36mins)

Plot:  Desperate to pay the bills, three pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

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