Valley air stinks and will for years to come. It drives off business and sickens people to death. The American Lung Association, among others, annually reminds us how bad off we are. But those of us who've moved around the country can take that one step further. How about tracking the air in places you've previously lived? OK, it's a snapshot in ...

Hospitals are memory-makers. So I had to pause when I read that New York State is paying $360 million to close or merge 23 hospitals and seven nursing homes, to reduce excess beds. One of the closures is Victory Memorial Hospital, serving my old 'hood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, N.Y.  They could've put in a turnstile for me in the 1950s and ...