Over the past several months, I’ve heard more or less the same goal reiterated by various Facebook employees and executives: The social network wants to be the place where you figure out what to do with your Saturday night. Traditionally, Events on Facebook were private invites to birthday parties or holiday bashes, with a kegger or fundraiser thrown in for...
Happy holidays? Bah, humbug. For some, December—ordinarily a time of family, friends, and more holiday parties than you could possibly attend—is actually the darkest month. “There’s a contradiction between expectations of joy and reality,” says Andrew Weil, M.D. So if you’re feeling especially Grinchy lately, then conquer the problem with these simple, all-natural mood boosters....
You know that feeling on Sunday night. The weekend is coming to a close and you dread work tomorrow. Or, maybe you’re just hitting the job market, and the pit in your stomach comes from the lack of compelling job openings out there. It doesn’t have to be this way. Make 2016 the year you...
I can’t explain airline pricing but I do know some plane tickets can be cheaper depending on where you buy them or, even better, where you appear to buy them from. This is all about leveraging foreign currencies and points-of-sale to your advantage. For reasons I never quite understood, every time I tried to book...
There are a lot of rumors circulating when it comes to credit scores and how to improve them: Do you really need to pay a credit repair company to increase your score? (No.) Will getting married help raise it? (No.) Will making on-time payments every month give it a boost? (Yes.) If you want to...
Small Cities – No. 7: Auburn-Opelika, AL 2014 Number Of Jobs: 60,700 Job Growth, 2014: 3.5% Job Growth, 2009-2014: 16.1% ================================ A look at job growth in America’s small and medium-size cities provides a very different, perhaps more intimate portrait of the ground-level economy across a wider swathe of the country than our survey last...
WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) – The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry in a historic triumph for the American gay rights movement. The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution’s guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies underpinning President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rejecting a major challenge to the landmark law in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans. The justices said in a 6-3 ruling that the subsidies that 8.7 million people currently receive...
Health Services Incorporated (HSI) will present their FREE Annual Health Fair on Friday, July 31st. This year the theme is “A Focus on Prevention”. FEATURING: FREE Health Screen, ‘Ask the Doc’, Diabetes Walk, Health Education, Activities for kids, Healthy Food, FREE T-Shirts, Give A Ways, Entertainment PLUS More! First 200 to register will receive T-Shirts...