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Let’s be honest – you never read the fine print in a contract, do you? You know you should, but most people don’t. Besides, do you really expect to find something so blatantly offensive, so patently unfair that it would be a deal breaker? That you would refuse to sign and miss out on the product or opportunity that just moments before you were convinced you wanted? Turns out, businesses are capitalizing on these con...

Full of holiday spirit and winter weather, the month of December is also the time for end- of-the-year lists. It seems everywhere you turn, someone has compiled a ranking of the year’s best and worst movies, songs, shows, fashions, etc. Children’s toys – an industry generating approximately $22 billion dollars in sales each year in the United States alone -- are no different. Every year for the past four decades, a ...

American commerce depends in large part on a fleet of assorted vehicles to move goods between locations. On the roads, compact cargo vans operate alongside enormous double-trailer trucks transporting everything from flowers to furniture, pizza to lumber. The time between Black Friday and New Year’s Eve is particularly busy for the nation's largest shippers: UPS, FedEx and USPS. This year, UPS is estimating holiday volu...

Thanks to modern medicine, average U.S. life expectancy has increased to a record high of 78.8 years. For many, that encouraging statistic will be tempered by questionable experiences with healthcare’s most hit-or-miss service – nursing homes. Here in Kentucky, the news is most discouraging. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reports that the Bluegrass State has more nursing homes with serious d...

It’s time again for what may arguably be every child’s favorite holiday. Halloween, aside from the debate over its roots, undeniably combines the fun of dressing up in costume with the thrill of visiting people’s houses for tons of free sweet treats. The excitement that comes from disguising yourself as someone (or something) else and getting candy as a reward for doing it stays with many people for a lifetime. Make...