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…
A Florida reverse mortgage can run as high as $1,249,125 under the 2026 federal lending limit, a cap HUD resets every year. The loan doesn’t end when the borrower does. It moves to the heirs on a clock they didn’t set and never saw start. These are the things a reverse mortgage does to a…
The last tube pushed off at Ausable Chasm on September 7, the Monday of Labor Day weekend. Peak foliage in the Adirondacks doesn’t arrive until late September at the earliest, by the state tourism office’s count. These are the things that close early in Adirondack and Catskill towns before New York’s fall foliage season. 1….
This Wednesday, San Antonio marks Diez y Seis de Septiembre, the day Mexico’s independence movement began in 1810. Restaurants across South Texas will roast cabrito, a young goat, right alongside the tacos and the mariachis. Many people outside Texas have never eaten goat and don’t plan to start. These are the foods Texas built out…
A grandparent with legal custody of an Ohio grandchild can apply for a $525 payment within weeks. Not everyone does. These are the Ohio kinship care benefits that get left on the table, even by grandparents who qualify for every one of them. Note: This is general information, not legal, tax, or financial advice. Program…
