Loyal Auxiliary discusses Memorial Day plans, patriotic initiatives

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...