Author: Matt Dowd

The city of St. George, Utah has made a major investment in the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians with the opening of a $13.2 million interchange. Located at the intersection of Red Hills Parkway and Bluff Street, the new interchange also connects three popular bike trails. With tunnels around the corners, bicyclists will be able […]

Experts are noting that the home improvement industry is finally improving economically, following the success of the housing industry. Normally, home improvement is one of the first industries to recover following a recession, but this time, it has been lagging due to depressed housing prices. Now home improvement is on the rise again, with companies […]

In order to promote what Austria’s conservative Integration Minister Sebastian Kurz calls an “Islam of European character,” the country’s new parliament has amended historical laws with a new bill that requires imams, the officiating priests of Islam, to be able to speak German, and also bans foreign sources of financing, thusly mitigating the influence of foreign […]

While the majority of the East Coast is complaining about the current arctic temperatures and constant snowstorms, one New Jersey driver saw the silver lining in such freezing temperatures– unfortunately, it happened to be an illegal silver lining, and he happened to be driving while intoxicated, and the police saw saw right through his plan. […]

Patients’ view on acupuncture prior to starting a treatment course for back pain heavily influences how effective that treatment will be, a new study from the University of Southampton suggests. “People who started out with very low expectations of acupuncture — who thought it probably would not help them — were more likely to report less […]