With prices soaring all around us, imagine how bad it must be in places that already had high costs when it came to rental housing. In an effort to help homeless veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs has updated its grant program to raise assistance caps in housing and subsidies.
DEAR DR. ROACH: This past weekend, during my son’s wedding festivities, I experienced a sigmoid volvulus. Doctors recommended surgery, but I opted for a colonoscopy, which was performed successfully. Thank goodness. I was immediately a new woman, and no one would have dreamed I went through this emergency. The surgeons recommended I have my sigmoid colon removed in order to decrease the risk of recurrence. Ideally, this would happen as soon as possible.
Q: I saw an ad in a magazine for a Hallmark holiday movie with Candace Cameron Bure and John Brotherton. I didn’t recognize his name, but he looks like a soap actor from “One Life to Live,” a soap I watched for decades before it was canceled. Was he on that soap? — S.W.
Central Texas College recently announced Larry Murphy has been named the school’s new director of Risk Management.