Year: 2021

N.Y.C. COPS FIND RESPECT, WARM WELCOME, MORE MONEY IN FLORIDA: More than a dozen NYPD cops have ditched the Big Apple to join the force in a small Florida city – part of a nationwide trend of disgruntled officers finding greener pastures in pro-police communities. Lakeland – a community of 108,000 people 35 miles east…

VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SAY FACEBOOK HAS MADE SOCIETY WORSE: These results might help explain why Mark Zuckerberg was so eager to rename his business last month. A new poll from CNN shows that over three-quarters of Americans surveyed said they believe Facebook has harmed U.S. society – and half of respondents said they personally know…

Examiner – Investigates: ALEXA SHORTAGE Examiner – Investigates: DISNEY WORLD Examiner – Investigates: PRICE INCREASES Examiner – Investigates: MYTHICAL CREATURE RANKING Examiner – Investigates: THANKSGIVING Examiner – Investigates: N.Y. City Hardest Hit – PR PRIME – Several prominent academic studies confirm: Securing earned media, building brand awareness, driving sales – press releases play an integral…

MORE THAN 100 MILLION NOT IN LABOR FORCE FOR 14TH STRAIGHT MONTH: The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on Friday that 100,450,000 people in this country were not in the labor force in October, up 38,000 from the 100,412,000 in September. This is the 14th straight month that this “not in the labor…

BORDER CRISIS REACHES HISTORIC LEVELS AFTER NEW NUMBERS RELEASED FOR SEPTEMBER: President Joe Biden’s border crisis reached a new level on Friday as data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) showed that the Border Patrol has made approximately 1.66 million arrests of illegal aliens entering the U.S. from Mexico for Fiscal Year 2021.…

EXAMINER – INVESTIGATES:Birth Order The first theorist to suggest that birth order can affect human psychology was Alfred Adler (1870-1937). In short, he argued that firstborns are “dethroned” by a second child, which permanently affects the firstborn’s personality. Additionally, younger and older children may be spoiled and pampered, which also permanently affects their later personalities.…

HEATING BILLS COULD SURGE 30% THIS WINTER, ENERGY DEPARTMENT WARNS: Americans can expect significantly higher heating bills this winter. On October 14, the United States Energy Information Administration’s winter fuels outlook predicted the largest increase in winter heating prices since 2008. The Wall Street Journal reports: Nearly half of U.S. households that warm their homes…

YIKES! – REAL COST OF INFLATION TO AVERAGE AMERICAN HOUSEHOLD: AN EXTRA $175 A MONTH: Over the past couple of months, Allison, a wife and mother of a toddler and teenager in Chicago, says she’s been spending about $50 more each week on groceries to feed her family — and that’s at a discount supermarket chain, Aldi’s.…

THE SURPRISING BENEFITS OF TALKING TO STRANGERS: So many of us have been raised to see strangers as dangerous and scary. What would happen if we instead saw them as potential sources of comfort and belonging? Nic spent most of her childhood avoiding people. She was raised by a volatile father and a mother who…

FREE-RANGE AFGHAN REFUGEES ARE JUST WALKING OUT OF MILITARY BASES – MORE THAN 700 AFGHAN EVACUEES HAVE LEFT U.S. MILITARY BASES WITHOUT COMPLETING RESETTLEMENT, REPORT SAYS: Hundreds of Afghan evacuees have left U.S. military bases on their own without completing the resettlement and transition process. “The number of ‘independent departures,’ which top 700 and could be higher, has not been previously…