Floating off into retirement: Many choose to spend Golden Years cruising
Some retirees may prefer to live their retirement years out at sea instead of at an assisted living facility, but the task to live their Golden Years on a cruise ship requires careful planning, according to several online publications. The cruise industry served more than 28.5 million passengers last year compared with 26.7 million in [...]
From Nazis to hippies: End of the road for Volkswagen Beetle
FRANKFURT, Germany — Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model this week at its plant in Puebla, Mexico. It’s the end of the road for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over a history spanning the eight decades since 1938. It has been: a part of Germany’s darkest hours [...]
Mobile home residents hit with soaring rent after hurricanes
LUMBERTON, N.C. — For eight years, James Lesane paid what he could for his mobile home lot rental every month — $150. But in February, five months after Hurricane Florence flooded the Lumberton region and shortly after Florida-based company Time Out Communities bought the park, his monthly lot rent more than tripled to $465. With [...]
Making meat in a lab? Startups cook up alternative to slaughter
EMERYVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Uma Valeti slices into a pan-fried chicken cutlet in the kitchen of his startup, Memphis Meats. He sniffs the tender morsel on his fork before taking a bite. He chews slowly, absorbing the taste. “Our chicken is chicken ... you’ve got to taste it to believe it,” Valeti says. This is [...]
Today's assignment for classroom design: Flexibility in school spaces
Desks lined up in precise rows with teacher firmly planted at the front: That was the standard classroom format for much of the last century. But with many educators saying kids can do better in a more relaxed and flexible learning environment, designers and architects have been providing spaces and furnishings to fit that bill. [...]
Treasurer reopens loan finance assistance application process for flooded Ohio farmers
Due to the extreme weather that plagued Ohio farmers during planting season and record rainfall that has continued to hold up any last-ditch efforts, the state treasurer has extended a crucial financing assistance program filing deadline. Treasurer Robert Sprague this week announced he has reopened the application period for the Ag-LINK program, which applies a [...]
Bible shortage? Publishers say tariffs could cause it
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Religious publishers say President Donald Trump’s most recent proposed tariffs on Chinese imports could result in a Bible shortage. That’s because millions of Bibles — some estimates put it at 150 million or more — are printed in China each year. Critics of a proposed tariff say it would make the Bible [...]
House calls make a return to Ohio thanks to New York-based health-care company
After launching in Ohio more than a year ago, Landmark Health is bringing back house calls by medical professions for patients with chronic health problems. Landmark started in New York in 2014 and now operates in 13 states. The Ohio and northern Kentucky area consists of 9,000 potential patients with Landmark now engaging a quarter [...]
Abortion arguments at play in limiting veterans' IVF benefit
COLUMBUS — A federal program to help injured veterans and their spouses conceive children through in vitro fertilization is being hobbled by anti-abortion forces that oppose how the process can lead to embryos being destroyed. Since 2012, Democrats in Congress have repeatedly championed legislation permanently extending IVF benefits to veterans whose injuries in the line [...]