Health

Newsflash:  Sometimes caregiving is fulfilling and sometimes it’s a pain in the you-know-what.For someone who loves order and routine, I have learned am learning that these wide swings can be over the course of a month, week or day.   ...

By Chris Richard In a first step in a campaign to emphasize a moral and religious imperative in the state budget debate, clergy from a coalition of Los Angeles County churches and synagogues delivered sermons over last weekend calling on Gov. Jerry ...

By Lily Dayon Over half the kids in California receive free or reduced lunch at school—yet the majority of these low-income kids don’t receive federally funded meals during the summer. Now schools and community organizations are coming together ...

“SSPCA & Spare the Air” Little kitties and pups need your love. This week Livewire is welcoming back guests from the SSPCA, The Sacramento Society ...

Since even the sweat pants are a little tight lately, I've got to startlistening to that bathing suit!"COME ON! Jab, hook, pivot, KNEE!""AIR JACK! You can do it!!""FRONT KICK! BACK KICK. FRONT KICK. KNEE! Think about all that barbecue you're going to e...

Today was a big day for Covered California, the new state-run marketplace for health insurance created under the federal Affordable Care Act. The health exchange rolled out the 13 regional and statewide plans that will be available to more than 5 milli...

When Alice from Science of Mom: The Heart and Science of Parenting (I love that, don’t you?) asked me to answer a few questions on the topic of infant sleep, SIDS, and bed-sharing as part of research for the sleep chapter of a parenting book she’s writing (which I can’t wait to read by...

For idealists who like to believe that good eventually triumphs over evil, watching the 1976 film “All the President’s Men” is awfully satisfying.  It’s inspiring to remember that the tale of two dogged reporters uncovering a trail of villainy leading … Continue reading →

By Suzanne Potter In the past two years, poverty rates in Riverside County rose from 12 percent to about 14 percent, according to the Community Action Partnership (CAP) Riverside, the agency charged with doing something about it.

Getting teenagers to put down the sodas and jumbo bags of Cheetos is not a new challenge, but it’s an especially pressing one these days. “We’re obviously concerned about the obesity epidemic. People are heavier than they should be...