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The hidden value of area senior centers

The idea of a senior center can feel stuffy and old. It brings to mind bingo and bridge. It shouldn’t. A senior center can be like “Cheers,” the place where everyone knows your name. That’s a good thing in so many ways. Sure, it’s comforting. It feels like home — and that’s something that shouldn’t be undervalued. We all need to have relationships. For some seniors, their family members might have moved away. Friends have died. Health and mobility issues can make it harder to go places and do things. Senior centers can help maintain networks and keep routines. ...

Horoscope: Thursday, June 25

Thursday,June 25 Aries (March 21-April 19) Your gift to relationships is thoughtfulness. You express affection through practical care, reliability and sincerity. Don’t let perfectionism in. Remember that people feel closest to you when they can relax around you. Love lets you relax the controls. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Your gift to relationships is devotion. You protect, uplift and celebrate the people you love with remarkable consistency. Don’t confuse being needed with being valued. Remember to leave room for mystery. Love will adore you “as-is,” no performance ...

Marriage strained after job eliminated

Dear Annie: I am middle-aged and lost my job during the pandemic when the company I had been with for years eliminated my position. Despite my experience and education, I have not been able to find anything permanent or full-time since. I feel like I am too old to be hired and too young to retire. My husband and I live in an economically repressed region with a limited job market, and he refuses to leave his job and relocate, despite offers and interest from other companies in more lucrative areas and my pleas over the years to leave this one-horse town. He is also not interested in ...

Dementia worsens after delirium

Dear Dr. Roach: My 83-year-old sister underwent the simple procedure of replacing her pacemaker battery. She’s also been diagnosed with early signs of dementia. They gave her propofol, and when she woke up, she had extreme vertigo. Since it was an outpatient facility, they dumped her in the emergency room. She spent four days in the ER because there weren’t any beds in the hospital. On the second day, she developed a bad case of delirium. After four days, she had to be transferred to a nursing home, where she spent 17 days trying to recover. She still isn’t 100% as this delirium ...

Minimum wage fail on full view

Not long ago, new kinds of jobs appeared: app-based gig work. They include jobs like dog walking on Rover, Taskrabbit work, DoorDash food delivery, Uber and Lyft driving. Lots of people like gig work. It’s flexible. You work when you want to work. But “workers’ rights” activists and governing socialists don’t like that. Gig workers rarely join unions. They don’t get a minimum wage. “Uber and Lyft exploit their workers” is a headline at MS NOW. “We can’t ignore it.” The Democratic Socialists said they had a solution. Seattle’s city council imposed a $26 ...

Trump’s three retreats are telling

President Trump has been musing about whether he’s the most powerful man in world history, and judging by the results lately, the answer is definitely “no.” It’s certainly true that Trump has technical tools at his disposal that would have astounded famous pre-20th century contenders for the title of most powerful man, whether Caesar, Alexander the Great, Charlemagne or Napoleon. Trump’s power, though, isn’t defined by, say, the precision and explosive punch of the Tomahawk missile. As the leader of a constitutional republic that disperses power and depends ultimately on ...