| Biz Buzz: Another shop on SLO block to close doors
Dawn Curnes is closing The Waggin' Tail Cafe & Barkery, a boutique for pets, in San Luis Obispo next Friday. Her two-year-old business will be the third to close within the month on Marsh Street between Broad and Garden streets. Curnes said earlier this month that she intended to stay in business at least long enough to get a boost from Christmas sales. But after getting advice from a business expert, she said, "it just was not in the books to continue." "I've been losing money from March on," said Curnes, who never accrued any pay for herself in the two years she's been open. "National predictions say retail will be very soft this Christmas, and there's just no end in sight. Now I have to buy myself out of retail contracts and sell my equipment below market, just to get rid of it, so I anticipate losses around $35,000 to $50,000." Curnes said she believed her business closure may be one of many to come in the near future.
Medicaid program offers ‘coaches’ to nurse chronic ailments
JEFFERSON CITY — Coaches are called upon to strategize and execute a game plan. In Missouri, there is a need for this type of coach — not to aid the floundering St. Louis Rams, but to help patients in lower income brackets who are suffering from chronic illnesses. Nina Stewart is one of these coaches, and her work is part of the new direction Missouri is taking with its Medicaid program, renamed MO HealthNet. Stewart tells one success story of a diabetic whose chances of achieving a healthy lifestyle have increased through the aid of a health care coach. “A coach recommended to the patient the use of a food diary to help monitor blood-sugar levels; now the patient will have good news to deliver to the physician, instead of just bad news," she said.
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The community college calling Thanksgiving a religious holiday is a first for me. I'm in my 50s, and I've never hear it referred to as a religious holiday. It's a harvest festival, it's giving thanks, but it's not religious. Everybody's gotta try to tie everything into religion these days. Religion is actually becoming a dangerous thing. It's causing a lot of problems, a lot of grief, it's causing wars, it's causing hard feelings between people and it's causing hypocrisy. I just read the Sun-News on Nov. 20, and it was just so refreshing to see that beautiful baby being adopted. You know, he was so lucky with so many children being killed. It's just so beautiful; thank you for printing that. I just want to warn all the natives the weatherman is saying that we could get one to three inches of snow.
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