Insurance costs are rising, making home ownership even more expensive

Insurance costs are rising, making home ownership even more expensive

As homeowners in Vero Beach, Florida, Marie and Jack Zuzak have had their share of insurance problems. She is a retired urban planner; he worked in the field of biotechnology research. They own an older home that is more vulnerable to hurricanes than modern buildings, and two years ago, after being turned down several times …

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Cooking rice with high arsenic water puts millions at health risk

Cooking rice with high arsenic water puts millions at health risk

Using water contaminated with higher than recommended levels of arsenic could pose a serious health risk to millions, new research from the University of Sheffield has found. New research from scientists at the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield has found that countries that do not adhere to current World Health Organization …

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Car prices are cooling, but “we’ll never go back to the old normal,” says the expert.  Here’s what car buyers can expect

Car prices are cooling, but “we’ll never go back to the old normal,” says the expert. Here’s what car buyers can expect

Prices are starting to fall from their peaks for both new and used cars, but we may never return to pre-pandemic levels, experts say. “The bad news is that we will never go back to the old normal. The good news is that in the new normal we are coming off the highs,” said Pat …

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State approves grant funding for visual performing arts education programs – The Campanile

State approves grant funding for visual performing arts education programs – The Campanile

The California Department of Education is allocating $1 billion to visual and performing arts programs across the state. The funding aims to increase arts education in low-income areas and create more equitable programs across the state for students with little exposure to the arts. Voters approved arts funding in Proposition 28 by 64.4%, the largest …

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Shares of Planet Fitness plummeted after a woman revealed its transgender policy

Shares of Planet Fitness plummeted after a woman revealed its transgender policy

By Samantha KamanChristian Post Reporter Thursday, March 21, 2024 Front view of Planet Fitness in Buffalo, New York. Planet Fitness is an American franchisor and operator of fitness centers. | Getty Images Shares of Planet Fitness fell this week after the company made headlines for canceling the membership of a Christian woman who complained that …

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New York’s attorney general is taking an initial step to prepare to seize Trump’s assets

New York’s attorney general is taking an initial step to prepare to seize Trump’s assets

CNN — The New York attorney general’s office has filed lawsuits in Westchester County, the first indication that the state is preparing to try to seize Donald Trump’s golf course and private estate north of Manhattan, known as Seven Springs. State attorneys entered the judgments at the Westchester County Clerk’s Office on March 6, just …

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Paleontologists have discovered a huge fossilized skull of a river dolphin in Peru

Paleontologists have discovered a huge fossilized skull of a river dolphin in Peru

Not all dolphins live in the salty ocean. Although rare, some river dolphins live and feed in freshwater and are best known for their candy hues. Now paleontologists have discovered a fossilized skull belonging to an extinct 16-million-year-old species of river dolphin in Peru called The pebanist snorted. It can grow to about 10 to …

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Food trucks in Austin must travel to be verified.  Inspectors may come to them soon.

Food trucks in Austin must travel to be verified. Inspectors may come to them soon.

Read this story in Spanish Sergio Trujillo started Desnudo three years ago as a table at the Barton Creek Farmers Market. Now, the line for his coffee often stretches across the food truck park on Webberville Road, where he’s set up shop. But once a year it all stops. That’s because Trujillo has to shut …

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