Human Interest

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In the coming months, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke will likely issue a new draft of his five-year plan to expand energy drilling in America's outer continental shelf (OCS), the submerged federal land off America's coasts.   

Unsurprisingly, the plan has environmentalists up in arms. 

As soon as Sec. Zinke unveiled it back in January, a green coalition including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club said the plan would cause "severe and unacceptable [environmental] harm."

One in 10 Americans lives with type 2 diabetes. Among many communities, diabetes is downplayed as "having a little sugar" and, with long family histories with the disease, dismissed as an inevitability.

The disease is far more dangerous than most realize. Diabetes doesn't merely put patients at risk of shock, limb amputation, and obesity. Patients with diabetes are up to four times more likely to die of heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, than their non-diabetic peers.

Christmas Bark Candy

1 lb white almond bark

3/4 cup Rice Krispies

3/4 cup pretzel, broken up

3/4 cup coconut

1 cup dry roasted peanuts

1/2 cup M&M's plain chocolate candy, red and green

Directions

Melt almond bark or white chocolate chips in microwave or use a double boiler on stove top.

Stir in remaining ingredients and mix well.

Line a cookie sheet with wax paper. Quickly place by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper. Allow to set up and harden. (I sometimes refrigerate them for a few minutes.).

No matter what you call them – latkes, potato pancakes or boxties – these potato delights are often the centerpiece of holiday meals around the world. With potatoes as the main ingredient you can add your favorite flavors to make delicious sweet or savory bites.

A Tennessee Toddler Receives the Best Gift – A New Liver
This Month She Will Sit on Santa’s Lap and Celebrate a Big Birthday

In 1823 an anonymous poem was published called, 'A Visit From St. Nicholas'.  It was credited to Clement Clarke Moore, a professor of literature and biblical scholar.  The poem later became known as,''Twas The Night Before Christmas', arguably the most famous Christmas poem, or any poem, of our time.  

Spencer Smith started up the Double S Ranch in the Rexburg area, wanting to help people that are screaming for the understanding that the horses can give. With a bit of luck, Spencer meets Lori Manley and what a wonderful first date that was--bringing horses from Rexburg to Brigham City for a wonderful ride and first date. With a whirlwind romance and feeling the same passion for the need to help others, Spencer and Lori are in the process of buying a ranch in the Cache Valley area.

Thanks to the laws of supply and demand, right now is a good time to be selling natural gas. That’s because the price for natural gas just keeps going up.

A little-known provision of the Affordable Care Act has been stealthily contributing to higher health insurance premiums. It's called the Health Insurance Tax, or HIT -- and Congress is finally ready to do something about it. 

Earlier this summer, a bipartisan House majority voted to suspend the HIT through 2021. Now it's the Senate's turn to act. Billions of dollars in insurance premiums for consumers are on the line.