How to start the school year off on the right foot
How to start the school year off right Starting a new school year can be stressful for students, parents, and teachers alike so it’s crucial to have a few…
Author: Rick Good
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader's money, real estate, and business coverage.
The most common types of college scholarships
In 2018’s college graduation class, nearly 70 percent of students took out student loans, and their average debt was close to $30,000 each, according to…
Go after the beetles
Early fall is a perfect time to start a campaign against the destructive copper garden beetle, also called the Japanese beetle. This pretty…
September veggie: Showing love for Brussels sprouts
Brussels sprouts look harmless — tiny, happy cabbage-like rounds that never did anything to anyone. In the UK, where they are often a feature of the…
National Recovery Month – Join voices for recovery
September marks the 30th anniversary of National Recovery Month, sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to…
Garden cleanup
With any luck — and probably a whole lot of work — your garden has been a source of joy and deliciousness all summer. And as the season winds down,…
Labor Day traditions
You might think you know all about Labor Day already: take a long weekend, have a picnic, enjoy a good day off, and pack away any clothing that’s white….
Be a bee helper
If there are two things we’ve learned about bees in the past decade, it might be summarized this way: they do way more than make honey, and they are worth…
Effort rescues Caribbean honey bees
Within days of the 2017 hurricane in Puerto Rico, a unique set of relief flights started landing on the island. On board: emergency bee protein….
Brave hearts: Moon landing by the beat
It is 1969, on the Saturn V launch pad, as three astronauts sit atop a 300-foot rocket loaded with a liquid hydrogen bomb. The average resting heart rate…