Stimulus Q&A
Catholic Online
2/7/2009
Sometime this year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment. This is a very exciting new program explained using the Q and A format:
Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Q. Where will the government get this ...
Internet pioneer Paul Baran gets richly deserved honor
McClatchy Newspapers
9/29/2008, by Paul Barran
San Jose Mercury News (MCT) - This is a column to brag about Paul Baran, because Lord knows he's not going to do it himself. The guy is a brilliant innovator and a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He's on his way to the White House to be honored Monday for giving us some of the key building ...
Family Leave Act can affect teacher's seniority
McClatchy Newspapers
9/16/2008, by Carrie Mason-Draffen
Newsday (MCT) - Q. I work for a school district, and I pay into the teachers' retirement system. I became ill and was out for 70 days under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Before I returned to work, I received a letter stating that the retirement system administrators were changing my date of ...
Credit crunch hurting entrepreneurs
McClatchy Newspapers
9/16/2008, by Angela Shah
The Dallas Morning News (MCT) - The capital markets crunch has hit Main Street, leaving many entrepreneurs in need of financing in the lurch. Take Don Scribner, a former engineer who decided to buy a seafood restaurant in Hurst, Texas, one that had been in business for nearly 20 years and had ...
Short-term financial goals may be more reachable
McClatchy Newspapers
9/15/2008, by Dan Serra
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - Have you ever tried to plan something months in advance and find yourself doing everything at the last minute? Apparently, that long-term type of thinking fails with money too. We are more successful in meeting our financial goals when we make them short-term ...
Women often lack glitter in their golden years
McClatchy Newspapers
9/15/2008, by Diane Stafford
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Catherine McCandlish plans to work the rest of her life. Why? Now 55, she's accumulated only about $15,000 in retirement savings.
"I've been playing grasshopper while the ants have been busy saving," she said. "Finally my consciousness is up, and I know I'll never be ...
Palin's another working mother
McClatchy Newspapers
9/10/2008, by Cindy Krischer Goodman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - As I consider Sarah Palin, mother of five, candidate for vice president of the United States, I see myself toting kids to football practice with their cleats untied, eating a bowl of cereal and my office ringing me on the cell phone and wondering _ how can she do it? ...
Entrepreneur breathes new life into funeral business
McClatchy Newspapers
9/10/2008, by Sarah A. Webster
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - At 28, St. Clair, Mich., resident and Internet entrepreneur _ known around town as "Joey" _ stands out in the tidy, riverside community where he's founded several dotcoms. They include FuneralOne, which brought in $2.8 million last year selling Disney-esque memorial video ...
Congratulations. You are 18. Here is a Check for $250,000
Catholic Online
5/23/2006, by Donald P. Clark
The way we die impacts our legacy.
Planning
a wise legacy must take into account many factors. The most commonly overlooked is the prospect
of an expanded estate due to the way a person transitions from this life to
eternity. If death occurs because of
someone else’s carelessness, your ...
Four Legacies. All True. Not All Wise! Part 2 of 2
Catholic Online
5/11/2006, by Donald P. Clark
Our last article introduced three legacies. This article features the story of a woman that changed, and continues to change the lives of young expectant mothers, and their babies by her thoughtful and wise legacy
The Widow Hears From God A seventy year old Widow, with four grown children, ...
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