Internet

Are you eligible for the ACP?

The Grand Rapids Area Coalition to End Homelessness is currently taking applications from Kent County residents who need help paying for rent or utilities. $39 million will be given out to those in need as part of COVID Emergency Rental Assistance (CERA).

Need Internet access? Grand Rapids Public Library has launched a new Hotspot Lending Program.

He was brunching in Ferndale earlier this week.

The library is working with community organizations to help lend out mobile hotspots for remote learning.

Grumpy Cat, perhaps the most famous cat on the web, has died. The cat was just 7 years old.

As the internet fills with more and more information, both helpful and useless, we've learned to Google everything. I mean, everything. Some people Google "how to Google something". Not kidding. But one thing people search for a lot, is disease symptoms. Everything from diabetes, coughing, to asthma. What's the disease people in Michigan search for info on the most?

All kinds of companies spend a lot of time and money to research what we're all doing online. What we buy, what we sell, what we search for...the amount of information on each of us is terrifying. Now, a report has come out to tell us about our secret, or guilty pleasure searches. What do people in Michigan secretly search for? And how perverted is it?

Getting your kids to do chores can be rough because let's be honest... what kid ACTUALLY wants to do their chores? That's why you have to be creative with it or give them some type of incentive. A picture has gone viral because of a Mom's genius way of making her kids do their chores...

Can you imagine life without the internet? Probably not. It's apart of our daily lives... we use it for almost everything! But would you risk losing the internet to save a life? Surprisingly (or maybe not) a lot of people would do, or not do, anything to stay connected to their precious interwebs...

This generation really is something else. According to the Huffington Post, A British survey of young people between the ages of 18 and 25, asked them to name five things that were important for their quality of life. Freedom of speech was number one on the list (81%)...

First there was "the dress," then the Starbucks red cups, and now it appears the Internet has spawned a new debate: if a dog wore pants, how would he wear them?