For those citizens who signed the petitions to recall the three RFPD Board members, you can have your name removed. A number of people have quest...

The number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes soared by nearly 15 percent in the first half of 2009 as more people lost their jobs ...

Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on...

Cars. We love 'em. We hate 'em. We love how they make us look. We hate what they do to our wallets. We have a basic need for reliable, dependab...

I continue to find financial analogies in the weather. A while back I compared the drought to a dry spot in your money life, and I compared a wind st...

If you own a home, you know there's a lot more expense than just the mortgage payment. There's mortgage insurance, homeowner's insurance, gas, water ...

We had some trouble paying the mortgage this month. No, really. I don’t mean that we didn’t have the money, I mean that the mortgage company rejecte...

A while back I wrote about a five year plan. Recently I've been challenged to take a bit longer view - I've started working on the 200 year plan. Wh...

I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it. I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; I decide not to do bad, ...

Immigration is a hot button issue. Almost everybody has an opinion, and almost everybody's opinion is at one extreme or another on the spectrum of id...

Whew... for a while there we were starting to think being a pirate might be kinda cool. You know, thanks to all the Disney movies. But this week's d...

According to reports out this week, the national unemployment rate has reached 8.5% - a level not seen in decades. And some are saying that ...

Reading is priceless. Books can take you anywhere - to new lands or new planets, in the past, present, or future. You can experience more adv...

Grab a dollar bill and flip it over. What do you see? A bunch of strange symbols and Latin phrases, right? Have you ever wondered what these mean? ...

Before we moved to the Greenhorn Valley, we were between homes for a couple months. So we rented two storage units and moved all our stuff into them....

We haven't had a lot of snow this winter. Experts are predicting a dry summer. Dry spells aren't any fun. You water as much as necessary to keep th...

Here's a cool idea for getting by in a down economy: bartering. If you're like me, the last time you thought about bartering was in the ancient middl...

In these tight economic times, giving can be extremely hard to do. You need every penny you bring in. How can you afford to give anything, since it ...

One day last week I was feeling bored, melancholy, down in the dumps. Nothing in particular was going on, just another day of fruitless job searching...

It's windy. The wind is blowing through the valley, knocking over trash cans, blowing shingles off roofs, and blowing right through the windows in my...

There is a new tax credit this year, aimed at first time home buyers. If you bought your first home last year, you can claim a special $7500 tax cred...

When you report your taxes to the government, the form you use is called "1040". This is true whether you do your own taxes, buy a software program, ...

Among the potentially confusing, but important, tax documents that have probably already begun arriving in your mailbox, and will continue arriving fo...

It's almost tax time again. Before the end of the month, you'll receive W2s, 1099s, and other complex sounding forms from your employers, contract em...

You know the feeling. You're shopping and you see that one thing that you can't live without. You're surfing the web and there's that one thing, and...

Is one of your resolutions this year to "spend less money?" I've made this resolution before, and I know many people have made similar resolutions. ...

I'm writing to you this week from lovely Ohio. OK, not too lovely. The temperature has been below freezing, and frequently in the teens, most of the...

The end of the year is coming. The cold winter months of January and February will bring dreariness, depression, and tax forms! Although the year is...

When you go to a restaurant, how much do you tip? There is a wide spectrum of responses to that question. Some people withhold a tip for the tiniest...

By now you've probably heard about the trampling death of a Walmart worker on the day after Thanksgiving. You may also have heard about the shooting ...

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