Hartsfield-Jackson moved 106.3 million passengers in 2025, more than any other airport on the planet, according to Airports Council International. More than 2,200 flights leave there on an average day. A flight attendant working that rush has seen every version of a passenger, and the signs start early. These are the passenger behaviors Georgia flight…
Losing a North Carolina vehicle title costs $25.50 for a duplicate, and the DMV makes you wait 15 days before it issues one. Fifteen days is a long time to not sell a car. A lot of what’s in a household’s important-papers drawer carries a delay like that, and few people find out until the…
The FDA logged more than 130 reports of lost smell, some of it permanent, after people used one nasal cold product. It sent the maker a warning letter in June 2009. Selling the product in the first place didn’t require the agency’s approval, because a supplement never gets reviewed for safety or effectiveness before it…
Minnesota’s DNR runs more than 450,000 watercraft inspections a year at public boat launches. A first-timer backing an Iowa or Wisconsin trailer down a Minnesota ramp often encounters rules that never came up back home, starting before the boat touches water. These are the boat ramp rules that confuse first-time Minnesota visitors. Note: This is…
Paying a Milwaukee property tax bill online costs an extra 2.75%, with a $3 minimum. Madison charges 2.45%. Paper checks are still free. Wisconsin has moved a stack of everyday errands online, and a few of them got harder in the move, not easier. These are the everyday tasks technology has made needlessly hard for…
A YouGov survey of more than 5,000 American adults found only 16% think a pet likes or loves wearing a costume. Sales don’t reflect that at all. That gap between what an owner wants a pet to enjoy and what the pet does enjoy shows up all over a pet aisle. These are the pet…
North Carolina’s doctors write about 787 antibiotic prescriptions for every 1,000 people, against a national rate of 752, per the CDC’s most recent count. Some of those are for viruses. These are the wellness myths doctors wish North Carolinians would stop believing. Note: This is general information, not medical advice. Guidelines are subject to change,…
April and May have averaged close to 37 tornadoes combined in Oklahoma every year since 1950, according to National Weather Service data out of Norman. The same office invented the phrase “Tornado Emergency” on May 3, 1999. Oklahomans built a set of routines around numbers like those, and none of it looks like panic from…
For nine months in 2014, Illinois had no eavesdropping law at all, after the state Supreme Court threw the old one out as being too broad. Lawmakers wrote a replacement. A first offense under it is a felony, one to three years, with fines that can reach $25,000 apiece. These are the times recording a…
A full-time nonresident course load at Texas State University can run past $12,000 in tuition and fees a semester, by the school’s admissions numbers. Texas public universities want two kinds of proof to avoid that: something showing you put down roots here, and something showing you stayed a full year before enrolling. Nothing counts unless…
