Financial Focus: Waiting On Your Tax Refund? by Anthony Rivieccio, MBA Awaiting your tax refund? Well, let me speak for all tax preparers and tax advisors. We are waiting for you to get it, too! There can be nothing more […]
NUTRITION AND FROZEN FOOD Thursday, March 24 — A number of various causes are recognized in March. Two of these seem to go hand in hand, or hand to mouth — National Nutrition Month and National Frozen Food Month. […]
LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT Wednesday, March 23 — The first town in America to have its streets illuminated by electric lights wasn’t one of the familiar, Eastern metropolises that loom in our history. That distinction instead went to the […]
FIRST U.S. BANK ROBBERY Profile America — Banks had operated in America for about a half century before someone tried to make an unauthorized withdrawal. On March 19th in 1831, Edward Smith committed the first bank robbery in the U.S. — […]
STATE BAN ON SEX DISCRIMINATION Tuesday, March 22 — The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based on sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. While this act is a famous landmark in the national […]
AMERICAN WINES — Julio Gallo Monday, March 21 — Today marks the birthday in 1910 of one of the major figures of the American wine industry — Julio Gallo. When Prohibition ended, he and his brother Ernest started making wine […]
IN NEW YORK, THE SUN HAS SET ON SUNSHINE WEEK By Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb Last week, March 13 to March 19, was ‘Sunshine Week’ in New York, an annual tradition designed to recognize the importance of an open […]
JUDGE MERRICK GARLAND IS AN EXCITING BUT “RISKY” NOMINEE by David Lesch, Esq. March Madness. A time to predict the final four. Everyone believes they can see the future and eagerly place their teams in the final brackets. But […]
COINING A PHRASE Sunday, March 20 — One of the most distinctive and near universal American colloquialisms — the affirmation “OK” — appeared in public for the first time this month in 1839. There have been claims that “OK” (‘oh-kay’) […]
Something is Wrong at the UN: I Was Thrown Out on Feb 19 for Looking Into Corruption and Double Standards by Matthew Russell Lee, Esq. Something is wrong at the United Nations. As a journalist covering the UN for 10 […]
#NeverTrump by Juan Carlos Polanco, Esq., MBA I am a proud member of the #NeverTrump movement. Like millions of other Republicans, I am appalled at the fact that our front runner is Donald J. Trump. For forty years, […]
WOULD IT BE BETTER IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW? By Rev. J. Loren Russell, BA, MDiv Luke 16:25-26: “Abraham answered, “My friend, remember that while you lived, you had everything good, and Lazarus had everything bad. Now he is […]
NATIONAL PEANUT MONTH Friday, March 18 — This is National Peanut Month — celebrating one of the nation’s favorite foods, and absolutely America’s favorite snack nut. They are enjoyed in many ways — roasted in the shell, used in salads […]
Financial Focus: Hello, I am calling from the IRS! By Anthony Rivieccio, MBA, PFA So, have you received a call saying you owe a lot of money to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)? Yes, It is a tax scam. The IRS […]
Dear Editor: This is Brian Madden, Efrain [Gonzalez]’s bunkmate and author of “The Move Behind The Move.” I am very happy that Efrain is out and my book is getting some notoriety. I saw Former Senator Efrain Gonzalez Jr. Is […]
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