With the conclusion of this year s legislative session, advocates say Maine lawmakers have taken key steps toward reducing the cost of health care. Surveys have shown four in five Maine adults are worried about affording the care they may need in the future. Ann Woloson, executive director of Consumers for Affordable Healthcare, said this year the Legislature has taken voters concerns seriously. .
While working from home, it can be tempting to lounge on the couch while firing off emails. But health experts are urging folks to take a long-overdue look at their home office setup. A 2016 report by the United States Bone and Joint Initiative estimates half of all U.S. .
When a nonprofit food center in the desert Southwest began a project to chronicle challenges of land and water access combined with climate change, they didn t know COVID-19 was on the way - which demonstrated unexpected resiliency. The pandemic turned La Semilla Food Center s storytelling project into a virtual event, but it was nonetheless a place for participants to share their experiences. Storyteller Mateo Herrera is a chef and the director of a community-based program to preserve the indigenous foodways of the Chihuahuan Desert. .
Sotol is an alcoholic beverage, or spirit, distilled from the sotol plant. It is drunk primarily in the Northern Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora and is often called a "native" beverage of the area. However, Sotol like tequila and mezcal, both distilled from the agave plant is not a native drink, even if it was invented in Mexico. Like tequila and mezcal, sotol was created using a mode of distillation that was brought to the Americas by Spanish colonizers.