MADELIA — Dr. Ashleigh Swearingen, a certified OB/GYN, is now seeing patients at the Madelia Community Hospital & Clinic (MCHC) on Mondays. Dr. Swearingen has a special interest in the management of abnormal pap smears, infertility, adolescent exams, irregular menstrual cycles, normal and ...
By SHARON COHEN AP National Writer CHICAGO (AP) — For three decades, Kelly Flint flourished as a corporate travel agent, sending everyone from business titans to oil riggers around the planet. Then came the worst pandemic in a century, leaving her jobless and marooned in an uncertain economy. Furloughed since March, Flint has dipped into her retirement account to pay her bills, frustrated that her $600 weekly emergency federal aid payments have expired. She yearns, too, for an end to the twin disasters that now dominate her life: recession and pandemic. "I don't deal well with ...
By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Amanda Cohen is a leader of the Independent Restaurant Coalition, a new lobbying group of chefs and restaurants that was formed in response to the viral pandemic. Professionally, Cohen is the chef and owner of Dirt Candy, a fine-dining vegetarian restaurant in New York City. The Associated Press spoke recently with Cohen about the coalition, whose leadership includes many other prominent chefs, including Jose Andres, Marcus Samuelsson and Thomas Keller. Q. Restaurants and their employees suffered an especially heavy economic ...
NEW ULM — Shari P. Fischer has been selected to the 2020 Minnesota Rising Stars list as an estate planning and probate attorney. Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers is a ...
SLEEPY EYE SouthPoint Financial Credit Union Board of Directors Chair Gordon Osmonson announced his retirement at SouthPoint’s virtual Annual Meeting on July 21. Osmonson was appointed to the Board of Directors in 1976, and has been board chairperson for 24 of those years. Osmonson has been an instrumental part of SouthPoint Financial Credit Union since becoming a member 60 years ago. He has been a steadfast SouthPoint and credit union movement advocate 100 percent of the time. His approach to membership and retention has been a large part of SPFCU’s key to ...
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ and ALEXANDRA OLSON AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — There were the two-hour, unpaid waits outside supermarkets when San Francisco first started to lock down, on top of the heavy shopping bags that had to be lugged up countless flights of stairs. And yet even after signing up for several apps, 39-year-old Saori Okawa still wasn't making as much money delivering meals and groceries as she did driving for ride-hailing giant Uber before the pandemic struck. "I started to juggle three apps to make ends meet," said Okawa, who recently reduced her work hours ...
