September 27, 2025

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A Tale of Two Young Men

Rina Risper07 mins

By Rick Garcia
 
 
Sometimes people refer me as the “wooden statue” in public places – particularly at coffee houses where I get my own reality TV shows in one sitting. Whether it’s the retiree coffee clatters, the stay- home mom’s club or the independent professional “techie” the conversations flow like a river.

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Your Other 8 Hours: Consume or create? Your decision will change your 2013

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By Robert Pagliarini, 
Tribune Media Services
 
That bloated sensation you feel isn’t just from the excess eggnog and stuffing you ate over the holidays. It’s far worse. It’s actually the end, not the beginning, of each January that’s the most important time of the year. 

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Interpersonal Edge: Don’t fall for fantasy in the workplace

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By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
 
Q. My team and my manager work with a charismatic supervisor who is always telling lies about what he’s going to do for our company. My team and manager hang on every word he says, make excuses for why he doesn’t deliver, and then look forward to his next promise. I’m sick of my team getting hung out to dry. How do I get my team and manager to wake up?

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Retire Smart: Acknowledging our financial blunders

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By Jill Schlesinger
Tribune Media Services
 
  Who among us has not made a costly financial blunder? Come on; admit it – we all make some dumb moves for which we have to pay a pretty penny. 
 

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The Kid’s Doctor: So-called ‘good grades pill’ an unnecessary and potentially harmful stimulant

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By Sue Hubbard, M.D.
 
 There’s a lot of pressure placed on students to succeed, and many of them are turning to what teens call the “good grades pill.” What is it? One of the prescription stimulants commonly prescribed to treat children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Some teens who haven’t been diagnosed with ADHD have figured out that with the help of such drugs, they can focus better and improve their grades. 

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News Spotlight: Postal Service Announces New Delivery Schedule

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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced plans today to transition to a new delivery schedule during the week of Aug. 5, 2013 that includes package delivery Monday through Saturday, and mail delivery Monday through Friday. The Postal Service expects to generate cost savings of approximately $2 billion annually, once the plan is fully implemented.

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Gallo Gym Brings Olympic Gold Medalist Boxer Claressa Shields to Lansing

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Photo by Sue Jaye Johnson

LANSING, MI —  The capital of Michigan has always been full of fighters, boxers, that is.  The Gallo Boxing Gym was founded in 1994 by Joe Bermudez, Sr. and Juan (John) Bermudez.

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The Other Death Sentence: Aging and Dying in America’s Prisons

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The image above is part of a photo essay by 
documentary photographer Tim Gruber taken at the Kentucky State Reformatory and published by Mother Jones along with a longer version of the following article. Photo by Tim Gruber
 
By James Ridgeway
New America Media
 
SHIRLEY, MA — William “Lefty” Gilday was 82 and suffering from dementia and Parkinson’s when officials at Massachusetts’ Shirley Prison placed him in an isolation cell — a “medical bubble” — for throwing an empty milk carton at a guard.

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