Tidal waterfront price cut in Riverside

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8 Indian Drive, $16,00 to $14,000. That’s for its rental listing; it dropped its sales ask from $5.8 to $5.6 back in July. It’s always done pretty well when offered for rent, but sales efforts have not been so successful. But just because it didn’t find a buyer at $3.975 in 2021 doesn’t mean someone won’t be tempted at $5.6, right? Especially now that the owners have conceded the obvious and listed it as land.

Built in 1949, well before the global warmist crowd imposed height requirements, it sits in what’s now the AE flood zone, and it will have to be raised to 13-14’ above the flood line before any substantial renovations are performed or new construction to replace the existing structure is begun.

Pending on Hillside Drive

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49 Hillside Drive listed August 14th at $4.995 million, has gone pending after 4 days, strongly suggesting that it won’t be selling for that guide price.

For those who might confuse Hillside Drive with the less desirable Hillside Road, here’s an easy mnemonic: Hillside Road hosts the public high school for the great unwashed, the fancier Hillside Drive is across from Greenwich Academy.

Stupid wokeness aside, there’s a financial scam going on here that makes the Somalans look like careful stewards of the public purse

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The Maine State Breastfeeding Coalition posted that this August for National Breastfeeding Month, though they have since deactivated their Instagram page (any guesses why?).

National Breastfeeding Month is for every family.

We're proud to celebrate and uplift trans lactation, chestfeeding, and Two-Spirit families during National Breastfeeding Month.

Every family deserves affirming, respectful, and evidence-based care.

Creating inclusive spaces means recognizing that parents use different words to describe their feeding journeys, and honoring each person's identity and lived experience.

When healthcare, communities, and support systems are inclusive, families are better able to meet their feeding goals and feel empowered along the way.

Milk makes families, and every family belongs.

Turns out, there’s an entire “industry” milking at the public’s teat

Checking out the Maine Breastfeeders website, I was dismayed to discover that there’s something called a “professional lactation consultant” whose services, by dictate of ObamaKare, must be reimbursed 100%, with no co-pay allowed. Now a small portion of that income stream is in jeopardy, at least for United HealthCare insureds, and the leeches are horrified: starting September 1st, United will pay for just one consulting and education session for the lactating “person” per day, and will not cover a seperate charge for the infant, no doubt because of a reasonable assumption that such a seperate charge has everything to do with double-billing, and nothing to do with any possible benefit a 6-week-old baby can receive from her own a consultation with a trained professional lactation expert.

From the breastfeeders’ own website:

In June, UnitedHealthcare (UHC) published an update bulletin that, among other things, announced a revision to UHC’s reimbursement policy on the billing code S9443 – typically used to cover no-copay lactation education and counseling.

Specifically, UHC will only reimburse claims submitted for the lactating parent, not the infant. The health insurer is also limiting the number of sessions that it will reimburse to one per day.

The changes will go into effect on September 1.
What this means for lactation professionals.

This change only applies to patients with a UHC health insurance plan and only to billing code S9443. Depending on a provider’s licenses and practice setting, other evaluation and management billing codes might still be available unchanged. UHC is not eliminating coverage for preventive lactation services (that would be illegal: see below) nor lowering rates for these services.

However, this change will have the effect of reducing payments to lactation professionals who will no longer be able to bill for both members of the breastfeeding dyad nor for multiple consultations provided in the same day. 

Digging a little further into this subject, I discovered that it’s a nationwide racket that even has its own business consultants for lactose consultants. And while I couldn’t find a calculation of the total amount spent by insurance companies and the various states and the federal government, I did learn that there’s big money in that there milk:

Lactation Consultant Salary in the United States

How much does a Lactation Consultant make in the United States?

As of August 01, 2026, the average salary for a Lactation Consultant in the United States is $111,543 per year, which breaks down to an hourly rate of $54.

However, a Lactation Consultant's salary can vary significantly. Here’s a look at the typical salary range:

  • Top Earners (90th percentile): $125,627

  • Majority Range (25th-75th percentile): $99,799 to $118,915

  • Entry-Level (10th percentile): $89,107

How many other niche “medical” problems have revenue centers like this one? I have no idea, but I’m sure we’re spending billions and billions of dollars on them. It’s no wonder there’s such fierce resistance to Trump’s administration investigating them.

Well of course he does — it's what they do

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The millionaire parents of a whiny top DSA leader have set up their socialist son in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home — where he lives while railing against the rich and property ownership, The Post has learned.

Gustavo Gordillo, the 38-year-old co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, is peddling his anti-capitalist lefty agenda while enjoying the life in the two-story, nearly 2,000-square-foot row home on a gentrifying tree-lined block in Bed-Stuy.

“I wish my family could afford to buy me a million-dollar home,” said local renter Faith Smith, 36 — who called the socialist Yale University grad a hypocrite. 

“It’s a rich kid,’’ she said of the Yalie. “That’s basically people who don’t have to deal with the struggles we have to deal with.”

The Ivy League radical’s converted single-family home was bought in 2019 by his mommy and daddy through a dummy corporation, Chucuito LLC, for just under $1 million, property records show

Since then, it has undergone a major facelift, with renovations done to its entire front facade, the planting of lush landscaping, the revamping of the interior and the addition a pair of decks on the roof as well as near the front door, according to plans filed with the borough in 2023.

Updates to the property continued Tuesday at least on its second floor, The Post observed.

“My son and my other son both live there,” Gordillo’s father said when reached by phone. “The LLC purchased the home, and then we did the renovations.”