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…
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…
