Fire Prevention Week, the National Fire Protection Association’s annual campaign, runs October 4 through 10 this year, and cooking is still the country’s No. 1 cause of home fires. The risk isn’t spread evenly. More than one in five Pennsylvanians are 65 or older, and that leaves even more room for a slip or a…
More than one in five South Carolinians is 65 or older, 21.1% of the state’s population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest estimate. That share keeps rising every year. As that share grows, many families price out a single monthly rate and never add up what long-term care costs beyond it. These are the…
Colorado’s Division of Insurance expects health insurance premiums in the state’s mountain counties to rise by nearly 40% in 2026, well above the 28% statewide average. That’s before a single moving truck arrives. Elevation adds a cost to nearly every bill a Colorado retiree assumes is fixed. These are the reasons a Colorado retirement costs…
Britling Cafeteria opened its doors in downtown Birmingham in 1917, and Alabama spent much of the 20th century lining up behind a cafeteria tray. Almost none of those cafeterias are still open. Many of the chains that came after them are gone too. These are the restaurant chains Alabamians still miss years after they closed….
A moving truck pulls away from a driveway in Bluffton, and the new owners feel like they finally got retirement right. Then South Carolina’s homeowners insurance premiums jump by roughly a fifth in a single year. These are the reasons a South Carolina retirement budget runs short by year three, long after the moving boxes…
A national estate planning report from Trust & Will, released this year, found that 42% of Americans wouldn’t know what to do if a family member died today. These are the conversations Virginia families put off until an emergency forces them. Note: This is general information, not legal, financial, or medical advice. Laws, forms, and…
A marble plaque in a Rate Field parking lot marks the exact spot where Comiskey Park’s home plate once stood, according to a historical marker on the site. That spot sits roughly 500 feet from home plate in the ballpark that replaced it. That’s as close as any place on this list comes to still…
A study published in the journal Science in 2025 found that two of Florida’s reef-building corals, staghorn and elkhorn, are functionally extinct in the wild. Plenty more across the state is slipping away, too. These are the disappearing things Floridians won’t be able to enjoy much longer. 1. Apalachicola’s Wild Oysters Apalachicola Bay used to…
If you were cooking for a Texas ranch crew, you couldn’t always choose your ingredients. You could choose what to do with them, though. Ranch cooks turned that challenge into dishes people still eat, even when they no longer have to. These are the Texas ranch dishes that exist because nothing got thrown out. 1….
Stuckey’s history puts its 1960s peak at 368 stores in more than 30 states, their teal roofs planted along interstates. Alabama’s interstates have only a handful today. These are the roadside businesses that once defined a drive through Alabama. 1. Filling Stations Filling stations used to be the reason drivers had any excuse to slow…
