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If Minnesota employers are serious about attracting and retaining top-quality employees, here's a new perk that can pay off big-time for both parties.

I have very little trouble admitting that I've killed more than a few wasps in my time. I've always had a live and let live relationship with bees, but wasps have always been on my kill-on-sight list.

I have very little trouble admitting that I've killed more than a few wasps in my time. I've always had a live and let live relationship with bees, but wasps have always been on my kill on sight list.

As it's set up currently, Illinoisans collecting unemployment insurance receive an extra $300 a week from the federal government, which is intended to help them through the pandemic. Since individual governors can opt their states out of that particular benefit, 18 governors have done just that, and more are seriously considering it.

Let's just get this out of the way right off the bat: napping is not just for babies, little kids, and/or old people. Study after study has shown that naps are highly beneficial for just about anyone.

Those who have filed will get an additional $600 weekly, in addition to their unemployment benefits.

The Illinois Department on Aging says that as of January 1st, it's using new, higher income limits to determine eligibility for the state's Benefit Access Program.

I know, I know. If there are benefits to all this cold, it won't be as much fun to complain about it.

We've got a mini-invasion taking place in my backyard, and my dog Lucy is not the slightest bit pleased about it. She has no idea whatsoever that "Bufo Americanus" is the fancy name for the simple American Toad, a toad that can be found throughout the Midwest. Every night for the past couple of weeks, Lucy goes out on what my wife Amy and I call "toad patrol."

After reading the Illinois Policy Institute's new report on pay and benefits for government workers in Illinois, you may (because I was) be thinking, "I've made a vocational error."