MARQUETTE — Making a choice to reside in a nursing home can be a difficult emotional decision. Nursing homes, however, may provide a level of care that individuals simply cannot provide on their own. Whether you are planning for your own future or assisting relatives in investigating their ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a final rule that will increase lender participation in the Section 184 Indian Housing Loan Guarantee (Section 184) program, strengthen regulations to meet the program’s growing demands, and ensure that the program will remain a vital resource for Native American families looking to become homeowners for years to come. HUD worked closely with Tribal leaders and other stakeholders to reinforce the program, designed to bolster homeownership across Indian Country. HUD’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary ...
LANSING — Recent legislative proposals would further restrict the distribution of deepfakes, the controversial images created by artificial intelligence, or AI. Deepfakes are AI-generated videos of a person’s face on someone else’s body, usually shown engaging in sexually explicit activity and posted with malicious intent. “With the technology and how easy it is to get your hands on and manipulate, it is reasonable to think that people don’t automatically know that what they are seeing is fake,” said Rep. Matthew Bierlein, R-Vassar, a sponsor of one of the bills. The ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif., When veteran entertainment industry publicist Makeda Smith began pole dancing as a fitness hobby, over 12 years ago, she had no idea it would morph into a life changing journey. The 63-year-old grandmother, who has received international notoriety for her dance flow ...
ST. IGNACE — Less than 2 miles past the Mackinac Bridge in the Upper Peninsula are dozens of cedars stripped of their bark and left to die. “It is probably the most obscene thing I’ve witnessed,” said Renee Dillard, an elder of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians who ...
By 2030, more than 1.4 billion people across the globe will be at least 60 years old. This number will shoot up to 2.1 billion by 2050. At this point, there will be more people age 60 or older than people between 10 and 24. These dramatic demographic shifts prompted the United Nations and World Health Organization to declare the 2020s the decade of healthy aging. The creation of a more age-friendly world includes basic things like improving health care access. But one critical component is often overlooked: taking college courses in your 50s, 60s or beyond. These opportunities to ...
