More than 100,000 older adults in Michigan are victims of abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation, according to a figure the state’s Attorney General office put out this spring. Scammers reach a good share of those victims with nothing more than a phone call. These are the robocall scams targeting Michigan retirees this fall. Note: This…
Two-thirds of Iowa farmland belongs to someone 65 or older. Landowners 75 and up hold more than a third of that. The people farming that ground aren’t usually ready to step back from it until someone younger is ready to take over. These are the things Iowa farm families should settle before anyone retires. Note:…
New York State’s Department of Health reported more than 1,800 fall deaths among residents 60 and older in 2023, a number that’s risen 25% in just five years. Not all of those falls happened outside. These are the stair problems that turn a New York home into a hazard. Note: This is general information, not…
The Vermont Cheese Council says the state’s cheesemakers won 33 medals at the 2025-2026 World Cheese Awards in Bern, Switzerland, and two of them went to cheddar alone. None of that happens by accident. These are the Vermont cheddar rules Vermonters won’t bend. 1. the No-Annatto Standard Cheddar comes out of the vat pale, and…
Not every Arkansas town gets its factory back. International Paper shut down its Camden, Arkansas paper mill for good in January 2001, after 73 years of operation. The jobs never came back. These are the Arkansas town squares that never recovered from their biggest closure. 1. Mountain Pine Dierks Lumber and Coal Company built Mountain…
By 2030, roughly 1 in 5 Virginians will be 65 or older, according to population projections from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Nobody designs a bathroom around that birthday. A fixture that seems harmless when you’re 35 can end in a hip fracture or a bad burn decades…
South Carolina is handing its taxpayers an estimated $325 million a year in savings under a tax law Governor Henry McMaster signed this spring. That part is easy to like. Retirement income in South Carolina still runs through a separate stack of deductions, exemptions, and traps the new law never touched. These are the retirement…
Do you know how to turn raw sorghum cane into molasses? Many Tennesseans don’t anymore. Tennessee had close to 3,000 acres of sorghum cane growing across the state in the 1950s, and the state has roughly 400 acres left today. These are the Tennessee dishes younger Tennesseans rarely learn to make. 1. Poke Sallet Poke…
It’s rarely the roof or furnace that pushes a senior Michigan homeowner to finally call a real estate agent. It’s the stairs. These are the signs the stairs in a Michigan home are becoming more trouble than they’re worth for older residents. Note: This is general information, not medical or financial advice. Costs, program eligibility…
A landlord near Kansas City raised the rent on a longtime drive-in movie theater 350% in 2024, according to Kansas City’s public radio station KCUR. The theater closed months later. These are the places Missourians used to gather that are gone for good. 1. Crestwood Court Crestwood Court once anchored shopping in the St. Louis…
