Bill introduced to study those affected by Alzheimer’s disease (North Little Rock Times)

Former University of Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles and representatives from the state House and Senate gathered Dec. 8 to introduce a bill that will create a government mandated task force, to study the needs of those affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Business North - The Daily Briefing - Business Newspaper Online Northland Foundation awards over $265,000 in grants; ... (BusinessNorth)

The Northland Foundation awarded 52 grants totaling $267,202 to nonprofit programs and projects in northeastern Minnesota during the fourth quarter.

Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)

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If Alaska never became a state ... (Anchorage Daily News)

Nine distinguished Alaskans -- among them two delegates to the 1955-56 Alaska constitutional convention, the last territorial governor, a Native leader, a top economist, an oil man, a historian, a journalist and a statehood critic who wants Alaska to secede from the union -- tried to imagine the difference.

Rescue mission (Daily Inter Lake)

All Mosta Ranch Montana, a rescue and adoption center for animals in Marion, was almost history in November. But an unsolicited check arrived just as Kate Borton and her husband had lost hope.