Pinder is South Carolina’s word for a peanut, from a Bantu root, while goober, the nickname heard elsewhere in the South, traces to a different Bantu word. Two names, two separate paths into English. These are the foods South Carolinians call something different from other Americans. 1. Frogmore Stew Frogmore Stew takes South Carolina’s name…
A Virginia family that prepays $10,000 on a guaranteed-price funeral contract has $9,000 of it placed in trust. State law doesn’t require the other thousand to sit anywhere. These are the things Virginia funeral directors wish families knew before they needed them. Note: This is general information, not legal or financial advice. Funeral rules, fees,…
Ohio ranks 29th in the country for physical inactivity, with roughly 1 in 5 adults reporting no exercise beyond their regular job in the past 30 days, according to America’s Health Rankings. Earlier generations didn’t always call it exercise, but they worked movement and other healthy routines into ordinary life. These are the old-fashioned wellness…
Kansas still had roughly 48 drugstore soda fountains pouring in the early 2000s, according to the Kansas Sampler Foundation’s count. By 2012, there were 39. Today, there are 21. That curve runs through almost every business a Kansas main street used to take for granted. These are the everyday businesses that once existed in nearly…
Recording the wrong thing in Arizona is a class 5 felony, with a presumptive year and a half and fines that can reach $150,000. A doorbell camera doesn’t get an exemption. That’s one of several things Arizona homeowners assume their smart devices handle for them. These are the smart home myths Arizona homeowners still believe….
A federal court approved a $5 million settlement for Bob Evans restaurant workers in September 2023, split among roughly 5,000 current and former employees. That case outlasted the company that started it. Bob Evans has changed hands three times since 2017, and the name on the sign stayed the same through all of it. These…
More than 5.3 million Californians collect a Social Security retirement benefit, according to the Social Security Administration’s state count. California never taxes a dollar of it. These are the deductions that shrink a California retiree’s first Social Security check. Note: This is general information, not financial, tax, or Medicare advice. Withholding rules, premiums, and dollar…
Census figures put more than one in five South Carolina residents at 65 or older. A new federal deduction worth up to $6,000 landed in front of all of them this tax filing season. But the rules underneath that number don’t work the way many retirees assume, and a wrong guess can cost all of…
Nine in 10 adults between 50 and 64 own a smartphone nationwide, the Pew Research Center found. Many new phones arrive with dozens of settings already switched on. These are the settings many Ohioans over 50 never think to check, already flipped on before they even open the box. 1. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Scanning Android…
Would you agree to a funeral home’s bill before you’ve seen a single price on it? Many South Carolina families do. The National Funeral Directors Association’s most recent survey put the national median cost of a funeral with viewing and burial at $8,300. These are the fees South Carolina families sign off on before anyone…
