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On Gardening: The Early Butterfly Gets the Verbena. Do You Have Them Planted?

By Norman Winter From Tribune News Service Swallowtails were early at The Garden Guy’s house this year. Thank goodness I had Superbena verbenas in full bloom. It is as if they had been given the task of announcing the arrival of spring and the butterfly season. On March 22, I photographed an eastern tiger swallowtail…


6 Double Standards Public Health Officials Used to Justify COVID Vaccines

From the beginning, the official COVID-19 narrative has been inconsistent, hypocritical and/or contradictory because medical authorities used double standards to create the illusion their narrative was logical and sensible. We are not only in an epidemiological crisis, we also are in an epistemological crisis. How do we know what we know? What differentiates opinion from…


LA County Bans Single-Use Plastics in Food Service

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors gave final approval on April 19 to an ordinance requiring that all food-service containers, cups, dishes, and cutlery be distributed by restaurants and food facilities in unincorporated areas of the county be recyclable or compostable. The ordinance, which will be phased in starting in May 2023, will…


Los Angeles, Orange Counties Home Prices Set Another Record

As the housing demand in California remains strong, the March median sales price in Los Angeles and Orange counties set another record. Los Angeles County had over 5,000 single-family home sales at a median price of $900,000—a 9 percent increase compared to the same time last year, according to Irvine-based CoreLogic (pdf), a real estate…


Incorporate Kindness Into Your Next Vacation

By Lynn O’Rourke Hayes From FamilyTravel.com As poet and activist Maya Angelou encouraged, we can all “be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” And, today, a single act of kindness can go a long way toward brightening someone’s universe. What’s more, research shows that encouraging kids to be kind has a positive influence on a slew…


Natural Arthritis Remedies

Ridding the body of arthritis is often one of the easiest and fastest natural remedies. What Causes Arthritis? Inflammation Calcium deficiency Protein deficiency Dehydration Misalignment This doesn’t mean it’s time to make an appointment with your chiropractor and then go to the grocery store to purchase milk, steak, and Advil. Milk is a terrible source of calcium; the body…


From Mountains to the Sea, Ireland’s Dingle Way Makes One Hiker Feel ‘Wonderfully Alive’

By Laurie Hertzel From Star Tribune After dinner, we spread the map across the pub table. We had gotten a little lost that morning, probably due to jet lag, and we wanted to make sure the next day went smoothly. It was May, before the pandemic, and my husband and I were walking most of…


3 in 10 Ukrainians Granted Visas Have Arrived in UK: Government Figures

Fewer than a third of Ukrainian refugees who have been issued with visas have arrived in the UK, Government figures show. A total of 71,800 visas had been issued as of Wednesday under the Ukraine Family Scheme and the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, the Government said. But, as of Monday, just 21,600 Ukrainians had…


Wales: Trio Found Guilty of Murdering 5-Year-Old Logan Mwangi

The mother and stepfather of a five-year-old boy whose battered body was found dumped in a river have been found guilty of his murder. John Cole, 40, and Angharad Williamson, 31, of Sarn, Bridgend, were convicted of killing Logan Mwangi by a jury of five men and seven women at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday…


BBC Licence Fee Will End in Our Lifetimes, Former UK Culture Secretary Claims

Former culture secretary John Whittingdale has said he expects to see the end of the BBC licence fee “in our lifetimes”. However, the Conservative MP added he does not think it will be possible to axe the charge in time for the next licence fee settlement in 2027. Current Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries previously announced…