Think a Missouri driver’s license works the same at 40 as it does at 80? It doesn’t. Once a driver turns 70, the Missouri Department of Revenue cuts the license renewal cycle from six years down to three. The first renewal letter on that shorter cycle often starts the argument. These are the things Missouri…
Ohio’s Department of Commerce is holding $4.8 billion in unclaimed money, and some of it belongs to people who have already passed away. That cash doesn’t come looking for you. These are the things Ohio families discover only after cleaning out a parent’s house. Note: This is general information, not legal or tax advice. Ohio’s…
South Carolina built more than 70 textile mills between 1895 and 1903 alone, and nearly every one of them came with a company-built village wrapped around it. Many of those mills went dark decades ago, closed out by cheaper overseas labor through the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s. The villages didn’t always disappear with them. These…
Would you guess a bathroom sends more older adults to the emergency room than almost any other room in a Georgia home? It does, and by a wide margin. These are the bathroom details aging Georgians regret not changing sooner. Note: This is general information, not medical or contracting advice. Program funding, coverage rules, and…
Try explaining to someone from another state why Nebraska’s athletic department cleared Memorial Stadium, the Huskers’ home turf, for two high schools to settle a rivalry there. Nobody explains it well. These are the Nebraska town feuds that go back more than a century. 1. Scottsbluff and Gering Scottsbluff and Gering sit close enough along…
Just over one in five American adults still lives in a household with a landline telephone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest survey on phone habits. Some people will have their landline until the day they die. These are the old gadgets some Hoosiers refuse to replace with newer technology. 1….
Sweet Martha’s out-earned every other food vendor at the Minnesota State Fair in 2024, pulling in close to $4.9 million over twelve days. The Olsons had applied to sell frozen yogurt. Fair officials offered them a cookie booth three weeks before opening day instead. These are the Minnesota State Fair foods with histories stranger than…
Pennsylvania employs more confectionery workers than any other state, according to its Department of Community and Economic Development. But making the candy never saved it. The things that traditionally filled a Pennsylvania lunchbox are gone now, most of them for reasons duller than anyone remembers. These are the lunchbox staples that vanished from Pennsylvania kids’…
Twenty-five thousand people converged on a stretch of the Worcester Turnpike in Framingham on October 4, 1951, by the Boston Globe’s count the next morning. They came for a ribbon-cutting. Nothing like Shoppers World had been built in New England, and Main Street a mile away never got its footing back. These are the ways…
Connecticut lets a Medicaid applicant keep up to $1,130,000 in home equity this year, the highest ceiling the federal formula allows a state to set. But none of that protects the house after someone’s parent dies, and the rules that decide what happens then start at 55. These are the estate recovery rules that can…
