Excelsior Springs has already spent roughly $1 million keeping the floor of its 1930s bathhouse from collapsing into the pool ceiling below it. Another $2.5 million would finish the job. Missouri towns are running that arithmetic on buildings all over the state right now, mostly with money they raised themselves. These are the small-town Missouri…
About 18.4% of Virginians are 65 or older, according to the Census Bureau, and that share keeps climbing. Nationally, more than one in four older adults falls every year. The house they’re falling in is usually the same one they bought thirty years ago. These are the signs a Virginia home no longer fits the…
Pennsylvania’s Property Tax/Rent Rebate sends checks of $380 to $1,000 to older homeowners and renters with income at or below $48,110. Moving can change that number. So can a handful of other things a downsizing retiree does without thinking of them as tax decisions. These are the things Pennsylvania retirees should weigh before downsizing. Note:…
Birmingham’s Standard Furniture closed its downtown showroom this spring, after 114 years in the same trade. The neon sign had been up since 1978. Alabama’s main streets have been losing that kind of business for fifty years, and most of them left without a marker. These are the businesses Alabamians still miss from their old…
Old Cook County Hospital treated patients on Chicago’s Near West Side for more than eighty years before it closed in 2002. A $140 million restoration turned it into a hotel. Illinois has a long list of buildings doing something now that has nothing to do with what they were built for. These are the Illinois…
Ohio’s bedding code requires anyone reselling a used mattress to have it professionally sterilized and tagged with a state registration number. Almost nobody at a yard sale has done that. These are the household products Ohioans are better off buying new. Note: This is general safety information, not legal or medical advice. Product standards and…
Minnesota’s health department ranks the state second in the nation for deaths from falls among adults 65 and older, behind only Wisconsin. Ice explains part, but not all, of it. The fixes that can help move that number down are small, cheap, and sitting on a shelf at any hardware store. These are the everyday…
Tennesseans 60 and older lost more than $108 million to fraud in 2025, across roughly 3,500 victims in Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville alone. A free artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot reads a suspicious text in a second. These are the things Tennesseans over 50 can ask AI to do that are helpful. Note: This is general…
The porch light clicks on before you reach the top step, the same motion-sensor bulb your dad put in years ago. Everything looks the same about your childhood home. Then you set your keys on the counter, and the small things start stacking up before your coat’s off. These are the things Pennsylvanians notice the…
Ashwagandha gummies are chasing a supplement market that Grand View Research values at nearly $840 million a year worldwide. Pennsylvania living rooms had a version of this in 1950. It had a different name, a different pitch, but the same promise. The Food and Drug Administration still doesn’t approve any of it before it goes…
