Interpersonal Edge: When dumb is smart

By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
 
  Q. I work with a very smart guy who seems to make everything complicated. We often have to explain projects to customers. How do I get him to dumb it down, so we don’t lose projects, without insulting him?

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Retire Smart: Letters from readers

By Jill Schlesinger
Tribune Media Services
 
 Time to clean out the inbox and answer the most frequently asked reader questions!
 
  Q. I’m 43 and have just changed jobs. I have approximately $10,000 in my old 401(k) and I am not sure what to do with it. Help! – Dana

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The Kid’s Doctor: New guidelines issued on ear infections

The changes will reduce use of antibiotics.
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By Sue Hubbard, M.D.
 
   The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) just released new guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute otitis media (AOM), which is ‘doctor speak’ for an ear infection.

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Your Other 8 Hours: Why You’re Stuck: Change Your Path to Change Your Life

By Robert Pagliarini, 
Tribune Media Services
 
 
I’m a little embarrassed. Over the weekend, I dug into a fantastic book titled “Handbook of Motivation Science,” and I had an epiphany.

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Two Suspects Nabbed in Home Invasion Call

 

Right: Colton Anderson and Left: Alan Marshall

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at approximately 1:00 a.m. Lansing Police Officers responded to a residence in the 800 block of Vine St. in regards to a Home Invasion in progress. The caller/home resident informed dispatch that several male subjects forcibly entered the house with weapons. Anderson and Marshall  have hearings scheduled in 54-A District court in front of Judge Deluca.

 

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Local Food Conference Stirs Community

Top: Participants meet and greet between sessions at the Everybody Eats 2.0: Food democracy session at Trinity Church. Bottom: Children painted slogans and art during the conference.
Photos by Belinda Thurston

 
By Belinda Thurston
 
A karate dojo in Flint started a garden. It created job opportunities for teens and fresh produce in a post-industrial desert.

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The Onion’s Big Fail, And What It Demands Of Us

In 2013, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest person ever to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance in “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (2012). She is also the first Academy Award nominee who was born in the 21st century. She will be playing the role of orphan Annie in an African-American film version. 

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Excuse me, are you listening? 12-4

 

Dear Readers,
 
While uploading archives, it is interesting to read letters that I wrote years ago.  I get so excited reading them over again.  This “Excuse me, are you listening?”  was printed in our 4th year and was twenty-fourth edition.  
 

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March is National Reading Month

By Rick Garcia
 
If I could go far back to the very first book I opened, it was a used tattered hardcover called “Smudge.” I was four or five and my older sister read aloud as I followed the colorful “smear”
illustrations of a brave black kitten and her siblings who were off to adventurous mischief.

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