With inflation on the forefront of almost everyone’s mind and hammering down our pocketbooks, reducing those expensive yet necessary household costs can be a difficult endeavor. Energy costs are a big ...

On a walk last week I saw eight young people, ranging in age from 10 to 14, run toward and past me. They wore swimsuits and were covered in a white substance which their trailing grandmother told me ...

In an interesting interaction at a recent New York women’s apparel trade show, a vendor was asked whether she considers Gen Z part of her customer reach and, if so, does her marketing to them differ ...

As AI costs balloon, companies are feeling the pinch. The average business has seen its cloud spending jump 30% in the last year, with generative AI the big culprit. Horror stories aren’t hard to find ...

“Stop repeating self-defeating behaviors” is the headline on my flyer, newly pinned to the Mendocino Co-op’s community bulletin board. All habits — the good, the bad and the ugly — follow a pattern, ...

You know the feeling: you buy a budget airline ticket and turn up at the departure gate only to discover that you have the wrong sort of hand baggage. It might be too big for the “sizer” at the ...

In San Mateo County and nationwide, domestic violence statistics are an imperfect and difficult science, striving to measure an insidious, often-overlooked crime. “The important part to me is what is ...

There are so many things people associate with kids that it’s hard to pick the most representative thing. Noise, messiness, innocence, helplessness, recklessness – they all would work. But I’m here to ...