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News briefs and boxers

WAXING PHILOSOPHIC: Famed NYC restaurant Peter Luger Steakhouse has teamed with Madame Tussauds to have celebrity wax figures rub elbows with patrons, promoting the easing of pandemic restrictions on indoor dining in the Big Apple. A wax Jon Hamm, known for his ad exec Don Draper in the series ...

Thinking back to the days when we got free stuff

Free is the ultimate catch word for any promotion. Use the word “free,” and one is likely to garner almost anyone’s attention. Free with purchase, free for stopping by, free, today only. A TV ad for a regional car dealer who likes to “keep it awesome” even promises free money. Of ...

Collaboration is how to solve the mental health crisis in a pandemic

In February 2013, I wrote an Op-Ed about a new record number of individuals who were stuck in New Hampshire hospital emergency departments waiting for a psychiatric inpatient bed for an involuntary emergency admission (IEA). There were 44 individuals waiting on February 4, 2013. Eight years ...

Culinary creativity, persistence and cautious optimism

There are some traits that you anticipate being passed down through a family – eye color or hair color, for example, or artistic ability or a knack for science. And then there are other traits that work their way down through the generations that are a little more unusual. To our great ...

Highlights from CPAC

If you were sitting on your couch, rocking back and forth as you prayed the pain and discomfort away, then you were probably watching the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a four-day event held in Orlando, Florida last week. The event was held at an Orlando Hyatt because ...