Fun has become the thing that keeps getting bumped. A national survey of 5,000 adults — 100 per state, conducted between April 21 and May 1, 2026, found that 48% of Americans say their lives are currently lacking in fun. Not “could use more fun,” not “wish I had a…
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Six Years of Receipts — And The Groceries Aren’t Getting Cheaper
A 5-pound family pack of chicken breast cost $15.01 in January 2020. Today, that same pack runs about $20.40. The eggs you bought for breakfast doubled in price, then crashed. Ground beef climbed 45%. Coffee — because the universe has a sense of humor — shot up 54%. MLive crunched…
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Political Exhaustion Is the Carryover Balance From 2025
Happy New Year The calendar flipped. That was the clean part. Everything else came with us — the noise, the backlog, the unresolved messes that never quite ended, they just lost their headline slot and waited to reappear. Political exhaustion isn’t something that suddenly arrived in 2025. It accumulated. Day…