By Jason Feifer When Madison Semarjian was a college freshman, she had an idea for an app: It would be like Tinder, but for clothing. She imagined the app could use AI to learn her personal style and then pull together outfits from a wide range of retailers. If she liked what she saw, she […]

By Lynn O’Rourke Hayes FamilyTravel.com Contemplating a family vacation? No doubt, these are perplexing times. But if you are ready to roll, here are five things to consider. Invest in Proper Planning Prior to the pandemic, planning a vacation took time, knowledge, patience and perseverance. In the current era, making sense of rising prices, the […]

Who hasn’t had a travel nightmare when taking the kids? But the worst I’ve heard is having a plane of angry passengers booing your family as you try to calm a child on the autism spectrum. “People are very quick to judge,” explained Laurie Cramer, who now is executive director of the Autism Society of […]

Commentary Millions of Americans are paying taxes this week. What worsens the pain is to see President Joe Biden spending our tax money on hotel stays, debit cards, and cellphones for migrants illegally crossing the southern border. Biden is rolling out the welcome mat. Illegal border crossers will no longer be treated like criminals, but […]

by Marlise Kast-Myers Tribune News Service It had been 18 months since my passport had seen daylight. Travel restrictions, lockdowns and, frankly, some level of complacency were to blame for my silenced exploration. My husband, Benjamin, and I had traded in airline tickets and carry-ons for tents and fishing poles to take our pack of […]

The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. To start o ne of these home-based businesses, you don’t need a lot of funding — just energy, passion and the drive to succeed. This article has been excerpted from 55 Surefire Home Based Businesses You Can Start for Under $5,000 and other great resource books published by Entrepreneur Press. Looking to […]

I have traveled a lot over the years. My American Airlines account boasts 1.3 million miles. You can only imagine how many hotels, motels, bed-and-breakfasts and inns I’ve stayed in. While most have been adequate, a few were downright scary. And I can count on my two hands those I would rate with five stars. […]

General Motors aims to turbocharge its non-vehicle revenue by introducing dozens of new fee-based digital features by 2026, including one enabling a car to predict when it will need maintenance, a top executive said on Thursday. “We have 50-some value-added products and services that we’ll be rolling out over the next 36 to 48 months,” […]

Over half of Australian businesses have evaluated Victoria as the most challenging state to do business in the country, adding that they have to pay the highest taxes nationally. The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) released a new report introducing its first index that ranked the cost of operating business in all states […]

DETROIT—General Motors Co. said it will launch a new, online used vehicle market called CarBravo that will allow the automaker and its dealers to challenge Carvana Co., Carmax Inc. and others profiting from selling secondhand vehicles. GM’s CarBravo site will aggregate vehicles owned by Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC dealers, as well as cars and trucks […]

Joanne Whitney, 84, a retired associate clinical professor of pharmacy at the University of California–San Francisco, often feels devalued when interacting with health care providers. There was a time several years ago when she told an emergency room doctor that the antibiotic he wanted to prescribe wouldn’t counteract the kind of urinary tract infection she […]

“A very dangerous pre-civilizational pathology is tribalism … I hire my first cousin—and not the other person who’s better qualified—because he’s part of the tribe,” says classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson. Now, “we’ve gone back in a retrograde fashion to a pre-civilizational mentality,” Hanson says. In this episode, we discuss his latest book, “The […]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio misused his security detail for “political purposes” during his presidential campaign and for personal tasks, including ferrying his son to and from college and helping his daughter move, according to an investigation by the city Department of Investigation (DOI). In a 47-page report (pdf) released on Thursday, the […]

Victorian start-ups and micro-businesses not registered for GST are being excluded from the Victorian government’s support payments amid overwhelming pleas for assistance. According to the Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia, rules around the Business Assistance Package were “inequitable and unfair,” especially with businesses not registered for GST but “suffering proportionately” with other GST-registered […]

There’s no doubt that South Beach is hot, but today’s buzzy iteration of the picture-perfect slice of South Florida is not its first or only heyday. The barrier island was mere farmland through the early 1900s, when two Miami businessmen and visionaries had the idea to develop the island by building single-family homes; construction of […]

The loss of a husband, the death of a sister, and taking in an elderly mother with dementia: This has been a year like none other for Dr. Rebecca Elon. The 66-year-old Elon has dedicated her professional life to helping older adults. But her experiences over the past year have taught her what families go through […]

The best getaways provide not just new experiences but also the comforts of home. Nothing provides quite the same richness of experience as bed-and-breakfasts—they’re usually family-owned, always managed with care, and often have some historical significance. B&Bs were the way to “live like a local” long before the dawn of Airbnb, and their intrinsically intimate […]

ORANGE, Calif.—At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, businessman John Reed was faced with a dilemma: halt the scheduled construction of his new restaurant in Orange County, California, or take a risk and see it through, despite looming challenges. Construction of his new Bosscat Kitchen location in the city of Orange was slated to begin […]

Recently, my husband and I made a quick getaway to experience autumn in the tiny town of Lititz, Pennsylvania. The fall colors were at peak; the air was crisp with just an occasional sprinkling of rain. In a word? Perfect. We bundled up to take in a street festival; wandered through tiny shops; and cheered […]

BMW’s X6 is capable of delivering 335 horsepower and 330 lb.-ft. of torque. The 3.0-liter inline-six TwinPower Turbo engine with Double VANOS variable valve timing control and Valvetronics variable valve lift system, pushes power through an 8-speed automatic transmission with sport and manual modes. The power-assisted steering wheel with paddle shifters, Dynamic Performance Control auto […]

Where do we want to live in the years ahead? Older adults are asking this question anew in light of the ongoing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic—disrupted lives, social isolation, and mounting deaths. Many are changing their minds. Some people who planned to move to senior housing are now choosing to live independently rather than […]

There has been a lot of discussion on herd immunity to COVID-19 lately as new studies suggest that people’s immune system has the ability to recognize the virus, explaining why certain individuals have only mild symptoms or none at all. Herd immunity happens when a large number of people are immune to a disease—either from […]

Doctors have been treating the sick since forever. But in the past few decades, medicine has undergone a drastic change. Much of the change has been positive; because of new technology and scientific insight, countless lives have been saved and extended. Yet, some trends in medicine may be hurting patients and doctors—and wasting money. Dr. Victoria […]

President Donald Trump took to Twitter early July 8 to talk about the economy and the declining CCP virus death toll. “China Virus Mortality Rate is among the LOWEST of any country,” the president wrote. In another post a day before, he said that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus deaths were down 39 percent. […]

Pneumonia. Heart problems. High cholesterol. Betsy Carrier, 71, and her husband, Don Resnikoff, 79, relied on their primary care doctor in Montgomery County, Maryland, for help managing their ailments. But after seven years, the couple was surprised when the doctor informed them she was opting out of Medicare, the couple’s insurer. “It’s a serious loss,” […]

Dr. Alison Webb took her 81-year-old father out of assisted living, to live. Coleen Hubbard took her 85-year-old mother out of independent living, to die. With COVID-19 moving through facilities that house older adults, families across the country are wondering “Should I bring Mom or Dad home?” It’s a reasonable question. Most retirement complexes and […]

The cool and damp days, and even colder evenings, don’t deter me from going to London. It seems like this time of year, I always travel through this magnificent historic city. Usually in transit to another port of destination, I end up in London sometime in fall or winter.  The first time I arrived in […]

Not only was I aboard a luxurious, double-decker sightseeing bus, but I was also in a restaurant.

The Greater Toronto Area condo market finished 2019 with rising prices and strong buyer demand. That story is expected to continue in 2020. As prices continue to increase, an emerging trend will become even more evident in the 2020 market, according to Scott Davie, founder of Davie Real Estate Inc. and a real estate industry […]

Cadillac standalone dealerships are beginning to open their doors across Canada, breaking it away from other General Motors brands such as Chevrolet and GMC, and the people in charge say it’s completely changing the ways in which they do business. “You walk in there and you know you’re in a Cadillac facility,” says Gary Relling, […]