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So, January is many things, but I think the word most people use to describe it is “long”. Yes, technically it’s tied for the longest month of the year with others, but I’d like to see any other month look hard and long into the cold, grey eyes of January and see who blinks first.

With restrictions regarding COVID-19 constantly changing, adults, vaccinated or not, have considered lying about their vaccination status. In fact, 38% of adults said they’d consider lying about their COVID-19 vaccination status in order to work, travel, or avoid conflict according to a recent study by Safe-Home.org Even celebrities do it.

I get the basic economics of the movie theater. They get a few bucks from you to walk in the door and then they really stick you with the captive-audience pricing for Cokes and popcorn, as if you were at an airport or football game. There must be an entire MBA class devoted to this highest expression of capitalism, the creation and maintenance of the captive market.

A new research study looking at how debt affects daily lives reveals that the true cost of debt. The survey finds that the average American loses over 200 hours of sleep annually over their outstanding financial obligations.

Washington D.C.- Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) today continued his efforts to uphold election integrity by cosponsoring H.R. 6299, the Protecting Our Democracy by Preventing Foreign Citizens from Voting Act. The bill prohibits federal funding to states and localities that allow non-citizens to vote in any federal, state, or local election.

Omicron is between 1.5 to 3 times more transmissible than the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. Additionally, people who manifest symptoms are doing so more quickly than with previous strains -- sometimes just two to three days after exposure. And recent evidence shows daily Omicron deaths in the United States have exceeded those from the Delta variant. Amid these troubling facts, there is pervasive confusion about what steps individuals should be taking right now to protect themselves.

The world’s longest-lived family, (9 siblings, collective age 851) ate this soup every day of their lives. Now it’s your family’s turn: ½ cup dry garbanzo beans ½ cup dry white beans ½ cup dry pinto or red beans 1.5 cups 1-2” cubed potatoes ½ cup of pearl barley (not quick cook) Aprrox 4 cups of water or veg stock if you like it richer.