Workers at one Buffalo-area Starbucks store have voted to form a union, according to results announced by the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday. Workers at a second store in the area voted against unionizing, according to the board, though a union lawyer contended that some ballots had been delivered to the agency and not…
DetailsPandemic life doesn’t have to be just about survival. You can become stronger and ready for the next challenge.
Three weeks before a new ban on surprise medical billing is set to start, hospital and doctor groups have filed suit to block part of it. The suit, from the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association and a handful of individual hospitals and providers, argues that regulators in the Biden administration have misread the…
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My husband and I, both 80-ish, are cautious about Covid. Six months ago, we fired the man who helped us with chores around the house on weekends because he refused to be vaccinated. We discussed our concerns with him, but it was clear that his decision was based on misinformation and that he would not…
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Some personal news: I got a microwave this week! I haven’t had a microwave since my sophomore year of college, when I shared a tiny kitchen with a roommate, and we used it exclusively for popcorn and warming up cold coffee about 10 times a day. I didn’t see the point in owning one after…
DetailsLas actividades sencillas, como caminar, activan las células inmunitarias del cerebro que pueden ayudar a mantener la memoria alerta e incluso prevenir la enfermedad de Alzheimer.
The public never found out that inspectors cited another New Jersey nursing home, Rehab at River’s Edge, for failing to protect a fragile resident who fell seven separate times, at one point fracturing her foot. And the public never found out that a resident at the Golden Living Center nursing home in Morgantown, W.Va., crashed…
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Traditionally, the holiday season focuses a lot on shopping for other people. You research, budget, and try to figure out exactly what will delight someone else when they get through ripping off your aesthetically pleasing wrapping paper. But, ask yourself: Why aren’t you on your own list? If the purpose of a holiday gift is…
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Ashish Chandra c/o Christy Dawn Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. If you’re remotely foodie-adjacent, you probably have a sense of where your dinner comes from. But fashion, which has no real equivalent to the term “free-range,” is a bit more of a gamble. Beyond a location…
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Megan Vice’s family lives on Long Island and wants her to come home for the holidays, but for the past few years, spending Christmas there has been a bummer. “My parents don’t even have a tree anymore,” said Ms. Vice, a 31-year-old musician who lives in Los Angeles. “I need to be doing things that…
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