By Dianne Anderson Seniors sweltering under scorching triple-digit heat are making the usual budget choices about what’s more important – buying food, or stretching their high cost medications by skipping doses, or turning on their air conditioner. Behind that problem of taking from one bill to put toward another is often the other priority, the high cost of rent. In California, home utilities, water and energy run about $350 a month, twice as much as a few short years ago. It always runs higher in the inland area, which for seniors on a fixed income, has been brutal. Cooling centers […]
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