As baby boomers continue to retire, hospitals and other health care providers can't seem to find enough certified and licensed nurses. ...more

March 14, 2010

With its inverted pyramid looming on the eastern skyline, The Pier is this city's Eiffel Tower, its Space Needle, its Empire State Building. ...more

March 14, 2010

As baby boomers continue to retire, hospitals and other health care providers can't seem to find enough certified and licensed nurses. ...more

March 10, 2010

Cranky critics of "kids today" surround us, but the truth of the matter is that never before has more pressure been put on our kids at a younger age than now. So while many of us like to complain about young people, we have no idea what it's like these days to be a high school or middle school age child. ...more

February 26, 2010

a Medicare meltdown due to a drastic 21 percent payment cut to physicians caring for Medicare patients. ...more

February 5, 2010

Three-wheeled motorcycles give a growing group of aging motorcyclists the stability and nearly all the comforts of a car while still allowing riders to feel the wind in their face. ...more

January 24, 2010

There are justifiable arguments that the U.S. could lose billions of dollars in personal income as well-educated Baby Boomers retire and are replaced by workers with less education. ...more

January 17, 2010

They aren't diseases, but the word that is used to describe them - plagues - is certainly morose. ...more

January 17, 2010

'Millstone' bill The front page of the Dec. 25 edition had a blatant error. It should have read "Senate OKs millstone health bill" - not milestone. Shame on you! This bill will be hung on my grandkids' necks. ...more

December 29, 2009

Mind the disabled While my husband went into the store I stayed out in the car. I could see the handicapped parking spaces quite well. A van pulled into a handicapped space and had a valid sticker hanging from the window. Out bounced two young kids and their mother. No one appeared handicapped. A moment later a pickup pulled into another handicapped spot and a woman talking on a cell phone with one hand and smoking with the other jumped out of the truck and almost ran into the store. She too had a valid sticker. Meanwhile, a car with a wheelchair ramp on the back was driving round and round looking for an available handicapped spot. ...more

December 25, 2009