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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month’s […]
Reflecting on My Life: The Past, The Present, The Future By Haleigh Martin Reflecting on My Life Past, Present, and Future The Past: 2015 Broke Me This was the year that formed me and started to shape me into the woman I’ve become. I did not know true pain and hurt until […]
Why daylight saving time is unhealthy – a neurologist explains Changing clocks twice a year may be more than just a biannual annoyance. Carol Yepes/Moment via Getty Images Beth Ann Malow, Vanderbilt University As people in the U.S. prepare to turn their clocks ahead one hour in mid-March, I find myself bracing for the annual […]
Advice For Would Be Whistleblowers By: Darcy O’Neil They say no good deed goes unpunished and sadly that is the truth in the world of the whistleblower. The theory on ‘whistle blowing’ is that the individual is helping the community, and following their ethics, by reporting the offending person or company. The risk of […]
2022-03-06 Indiana, Iowa and Texas advance anti-transgender agendas – part of a longtime strategy by conservatives to rally their base Conservatives see anti-transgender bills as fair game. AP Photo/Michael Conroy Alison Gash, University of Oregon Transgender girls in Iowa will no longer be allowed to compete in girls’ sports – the latest in a rash of […]
2022-02-24 Targeted by Politicians, Trans Youth Struggle With Growing Fear and Mental Health Concerns Sandy West Charlie Apple had experienced people calling into question his humanity, suggesting he was just a confused kid or even a moral aberration. As a transgender teen, he had accepted that his future could include discrimination, verbal abuse, and […]
2022-02-19 ‘I Just Want to Stay in One Spot’: From Homeless to Housed in Rugged Del Norte Anna Maria Barry-Jester CRESCENT CITY, Calif. — On a rainy winter morning, Jamie Hayden stopped in to visit with Diane Timothio. A case manager in Del Norte County on California’s remote northern coast, Hayden comes by often, […]
Connecting Military Parents and Children, One Story at a Time (StatePoint) For deployed service members who are also parents, being away from their kids is often the hardest part of the job. This is why the United Service Organizations (USO) has prioritized connecting military parents with their families. One way to bring service […]
2022-02-19 Demand for Service Dogs Unleashes a ‘Wild West’ Market Markian Hawryluk Jenni Mahnaz admits she’s not much of a dog person. She’s mildly allergic and the only pet she had as a child was a hermit crab. But once she learned that specially trained dogs could help her daughters with their […]
A letter to my daughter By: Garret Belisle We are all looking to find that special person to share our lives with through the ups and downs and everything that comes with it and hopefully that person has a positive outlook and will truly love us for who we are. Always remember that you […]