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It’s National Ride Your Bike to Work Day! Riding your bike to work has lots of benefits: It’s cheaper than driving (gas prices are out of control); It helps keep you healthy (something that is increasingly important); and It looks cool (trust me on this, my kids think biking commuters are awesome). You may even…
Earlier this month, a reader sent me an email with a link to a news clip from Channel 13 (WHTR in Indianapolis) with the title “13 Investigates: IRS tax loophole.” She wrote: “I was wondering if it was true…seems a little far-fetched to me.” I checked it out and dismissed it as much ado about…
Admit it. For weeks now, you’ve been dropping the terms “IPO” and “going public” and “stock options” in water-cooler conversation and at cocktail parties and you don’t really know what they mean. Or how they make people rich. Or why it matters to you. And it’s totally Facebook’s fault. As you know, Facebook is “going…
In about a week, I’ll be on stage to receive an award from the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of their “40 Under 40” for 2012. Fortunately, my seven year old daughter (one of my three great kids) will be along to help perform my “hidden talent”: I know all of the words to Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious…
Yesterday was Career Day at my kids’ school. So, around 9:00 a.m., I found myself standing in front of a room full of kids, touting the virtues of staying in school. I recited the saga of being the first in my family to go to college. I talked about how I loved what I do…
My 7-year-old is always looking for an angle. Recently, she asked for a cookie before bedtime. I said yes. She asked for another one. I said no, just one. “But,” she whined at me, “They’re vegan!” My husband seemed to think she had a point. What Amy was doing was trying to find a loophole….
On May 21, 1980, Katherina Reitz Brow was stabbed to death in her home in Ayer, Massachusetts. Three years later, the man accused of the crime was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. That man, Kenneth (“Kenny”) Waters, would serve eighteen years in jail for a…
Michelle Phillips just won an A… or at least a nice note to her professor. Michelle’s entry on transfer pricing is one of two winning entries in my legal writing contest. Michelle is currently an LL.M. Taxation candidate at Boston University. Her transfer pricing tax prof is Richard Ainsworth. As you may know from yesterday,…
Charles J. Sigerseth just won an A… or at least a nice note to his professor. Charles’ entry on the statute of limitations issue is one of two winning entries in my legal writing contest. Charles received his paralegal cert of graduation this year from Blackstone Career Institute and is now studying to take the…
And here I thought, in an election year, that nothing would get done. In the blink of an eye, the Senate has managed to pass a bill that does practically everything. The bill, which has the descriptive title, “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act” or “MAP-21” is called, in shorthand, the “Highway…