A federal appeals court threw out the rule that would’ve forced every subscription service to make canceling as easy as signing up. Nobody has to make it easy now. Ohio has no auto-renewal law on the books, either, so each company decides how hard your exit gets to be. These are the reasons Ohioans and…
Wheat brought Montana farmers just over $1 billion in 2024, more money than any other crop grown in the state, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). That money doesn’t come in gradually. Nearly all of it lands in a few frantic weeks each August, when trucks line up at…
Wisconsin has about 500 emergency room visits a year from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to its Department of Health Services. Storm season is partly why that number is so high. These are the generator mistakes that put Wisconsin households in danger after a storm. 1. Too Close to the House Your generator has to sit…
Citizens Property Insurance, Florida’s insurer of last resort, still had more than 266,000 policies in force as of late August 2026. Every one of them runs on the same two-part clock: One year from the date of loss to file an initial hurricane damage claim, and 18 months for a supplemental claim on damage that…
Alabama’s unemployment rate rose to 3.4% in July, up from 3.2% in June and 2.8% a year earlier, according to the Alabama Department of Labor. A layoff notice is almost never the first thing a worker sees. These are the warning signs Alabamians learn to read before layoffs hit. 1. Employer on the WARN List…
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission found that aluminum wiring installed before 1972 is 55 times more likely to develop a fire hazard at an outlet than copper wiring. A Fort Worth house wired in 1968 and never touched since is still wired that way today. These are the problems Texans should expect in a…
Michigan drivers lose an average of $772 a year to the state’s rough roads, according to a 2025 report from the transportation research nonprofit TRIP. Part of that bill gets decided in a tire shop. These are the signs frugality is costing a Michigan household more money. Note: This is general information, not financial, insurance,…
California gives many fired workers two years to sue over a wrongful termination, the deadline set by Code of Civil Procedure Section 335.1. That’s one of four clocks. Three other deadlines can apply instead, depending on why the firing happened, and the shortest of them is within a year. Note: This is general information, not…
A maintenance tech can usually tell how bad a work order will be before the first sentence is out of a tenant’s mouth. It’s the date that gives it away. The problem called in on day one and called in three weeks later isn’t the same job anymore. These are the problems Ohio apartment maintenance…
A woman picks up a lamp at a Saturday sale outside Rock Hill, looks at the sticker, and sets it back down. She never says a word about the price. She walks to the next driveway, and the seller never finds out what she would have paid. These are the garage sale pricing mistakes that…
