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The approaching year end offers a great time to reflect on on your last year and look ahead to the next. The author offers some tips from a financial perspective on how to plan for the coming year.
• Leave a CommentThough Dec. 31 is still a few weeks away, congressional sources say the House plans to adjourn at the end of this week. With the Senate returning from its latest recess on Monday, that leaves just five days when both chambers are in session.
• Leave a CommentCan savings from military pensions be part of the solution to avoid deeper cuts from defense next month?
• Leave a CommentA minimalist U.S. budget deal that congressional negotiators hope to reach in coming days will do almost nothing to tame rising federal debt, but it could usher in a nearly two-year fiscal truce, minimizing the risk of future funding crises and government shutdowns.
• Leave a CommentStories of heartwarming customer service at the latex-gloved hands of the TSA seem to be common during the holiday travel season.
• Leave a Comment2014 brings several important changes and deadlines for Obamacare, elections, taxes and expiration of government funding.
• Leave a CommentApple, Google, Facebook and other top technology companies on Monday took their strongest stance to date against sweeping government surveillance that collects vast amounts of data – but they also urged countries not to react to U.S. snooping by walling off the Internet.
• Leave a CommentNot limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents.
• Leave a CommentThe US State Department on Friday fended off criticism for commissioning a $1 million sculpture for its London embassy, saying it was “a good use of our limited resources.”
• Leave a CommentMany lawmakers are facing hefty premium increases.
• Leave a CommentThe Office of Personnel Management this week updated its closure and dismissal policies for D.C. area federal offices, tweaking its language on delayed arrivals and urging agencies to ensure that more employees telework during severe weather days.
• Leave a CommentA 51-year-old Winnsboro woman has been given 40 months in prison for lying on loan applications to get money to hide the theft of $640,000 from a federally funded nonprofit.
• Leave a CommentDr. Monnett, whose observations of drowned polar bears raised alarms about climate change, had filed a whistleblower complaint in the wake of a witch hunt investigation by the U.S. Interior Department’s Inspector General.
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