EXPANDING 4K: A CHANGE THAT’S MAKING A LASTING IMPACT

Each May, about 4 million young people graduate from high schools across the country.The ceremonies are similar. Family, friends, and relatives gather on football fields or in gymnasiums. Music plays and young people in robes solemnly process. Speeches are given. Tears are shed. There is polite laughter as the school official delivers the same joke for the 23rd year in a row. Names are called. Dip...

Small business owners are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of health care. Nearly a third have stopped offering health benefits as premiums continue to climb.It is critical that lawmakers understand the reasons for rising costs and begin to address them — or small businesses will continue to drop health coverage due to unsustainable costs. One of these reasons is hospitals’ exploitat...

The Loyal American Legion Auxiliary Unit 175 met on May 12. The meeting was called to order by president Jodi Lindner at 7:30 p.m. and opened with a prayer by chaplain Donna Langfeldt, followed by a moment of silence for deceased members. The Pledge of Allegiance and Preamble were recited. Roll call was taken, with 14 members present.The secretary's report was read by Michele Taylor with one corre...