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The Ballot Campaign Committee, “Citizens for Local Choice,” recently submitted an initiative petition to the Bureau of Elections to amend the Clean and Renewable Energy and Energy Waste Reduction Act to, among other things, repeal Part 8 as added by Public Act 233 of 2023. The Committee has...
Making a practice of regular, deep breathing may be one easy way to lower your stress level as well as provide many other health benefits.
Deep breathing or belly breathing, also known as diaphragmatic breathing, is a simple technique to practice and one that can supply important health benefits....
(NAPSI)—Here’s something you should know the next time you’re getting your vehicle ready for a road trip. While you may take steps to prepare for a trip—checking tire pressure and oil levels and filling the tank—there is one step that’s often overlooked: checking your vehicle for open safety...
Dr. Paul Dake is semi-retired; moved to the Pinconning area to be near family and is submitting articles for the Journal. Dr. Dake has an Undergraduate degree in Physiology and M.D. degree, both from Michigan State University, the latter awarded in 1978; immediately thereafter, Family Medicine...
Lynn Eckerle is the author of the weekly food column The Recipe Exchange along with a blog, Lynn’s Musings From a Deep Well. She loves country cooking, small town living and taking the back roads.
Dear Lynn,
I’m hoping you can help me. I’m looking for some recipes for homemade waffles or pancakes....
Well, we made it to 2024. Have you given some thought to the new year? Let’s do something new and positive in 2024. Many times, we are the ones that hold ourselves back by saying “ I can’t do that, or I can’t make a change.” I am here to tell you, you can make a change and you should.
Many of us...
(NAPSI)—If you or someone you care about is a weekend warrior, maturing man or exercise enthusiast, you might want to bone up on these facts about health and safety.
The Problem
As men get older, over-exercise or make sudden changes in activity, they may experience injuries, stiffness, discomfort...
(NAPSI)—If you’re like many people, you may be curious about crypto. From crypto direct deposits and debit cards to decentralized saving and lending and cross-border payments, the cryptoeconomy is rapidly challenging many of the core ideas around what money is and how it can be put to work. As...
We routinely remind readers that for a full gallery of photos from every event attended by Journal photographers, you can go to the Journal’s SmugMug site, www.smugmug.
pinconningjournal.com and browse the photos there.
That’s great for all of the photos of an event, but there
is another way of...
White-crowned Sparrows appear in our area in the fall and spring during their annual migrations. They are easy to spot with their black & white helmets resembling those worn by U-M football players. This attractive bird scratches the ground continuously to expose seeds, insects, and berries. It...