• Why North Charleston’s police chief is retiring

    North Charleston Police Chief Greg Gomes never really planned on being the department’s chief, he told the Charleston City Paper April 24. But when now-Mayor Reggie Burgess — the former chief — announced his bid for the city’s top office, he simultaneously announced his retirement as chief of one of the largest police forces in […]

  • Ryan, 2016 MVP, announces retirement aged 38

    Matt Ryan, who was named the NFL's most valuable player in 2016, has

  • Campus unrest draws condemnations from North Carolinians in Congress

    (The Center Square) – North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis called for expulsions and deportations. Reps. Virginia Foxx and Richard Hudson sought accountability. And U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning, born to Jewish parents in Michigan just over 67 years ago about a decade after the Holocaust, offered words of encouragement as the Middle Eastern war between Hamas and Israel ignited conflict in the United States. Some of North Carolina's congressional delegation responded Monday...

  • Republicans Say It Aloud: They Want to Raise the Retirement Age

    The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. Can Republicans keep building their support among working-class voters? Not if the Republicans have anything to say about it. Earlier today, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) released its recommendations for the fiscal 2025 budget. Among its particulars was a real working-class winner: raising the retirement age… Source

  • Al Shaver, voice of the North Stars, has died at age 96

    His family said the broadcasting icon died after a brief illness at his home on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

  • More people are working well past retirement age. It’s not easy

    Hope Murray retired in 2013 after a 50-year career that ranged from game show producer to Hollywood party planner to casino executive. She settled into a life of golf, game nights and pickleball in her San Diego community, her daughter living nearby. Then things got more expensive. Gas was nearly $5 a gallon, medication costs […]

  • Ageing countries benefit from immigrant labour, but workers themselves have difficult retirements

    The earnings of immigrants decline as they age due to the informal nature of their jobs and lower contributions to social pension benefits.

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    More people are working well past retirement age. It’s not easy

    By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Hope Murray retired in 2013 after a 50-year career that ranged from game show producer to Hollywood party planner to casino executive. She settled into a life of golf, game nights and pickleball in her San Diego community, her daughter living nearby. Then things got more expensive.

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    More people are working well past retirement age. It’s not easy

    By Nicole Goodkind, CNN New York (CNN) — Hope Murray retired in 2013 after a 50-year career that ranged from game show producer to Hollywood party planner to casino executive. She settled into a life of golf, game nights and pickleball in her San Diego community, her daughter living nearby. Then things got more expensive.

  • Backyard discovery has retired geologist believing he's found Bronze Age arrowhead and more

    A retired geologist has claimed he's found a lost Bronze Age settlement in his backyard — after learning to identify artifacts by watching "Time Team," a popular TV series in the U.K. that features specialists who work to uncover details about Britain's archaeology and history.  Andrew Beckly of Wellington, in Somerset, England, has amassed a horde of more than 2,500 artifacts, including blades and axes, after a chance discovery under his own lawn, according to SWNS, the British news service. He...

  • Federal money eyed for Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota

    Supporters of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota are welcoming federal legislation that would help cover the construction costs of the library and to showcase artifacts of the 26th president

  • Baltimore battles ship owners’ effort to limit liability in bridge collapse

    The owners of the Dali cargo ship were negligent and should be held fully liable for the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which killed six people, the city of Baltimore said in court filings Monday. In response to the vessel owners’ petition filed in U.S. District Court this month seeking to limit their liability, Mayor Brandon Scott and the Baltimore City Council argued Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and Synergy Marine Pte Ltd. “put a clearly unseaworthy vessel into the water," and they...