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Et tu, NYT

Even the vaunted New York Times can’t keep the terminology straight when it comes to taxation and national finance.An article on Sunday by Brian Knowlton tried to explain the faceoff between Republicans and Democrats. Speaking of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Knowlton wrote: ...

Real Estate Matters: 2013 real estate predictions (Part 2)

<em>We continue the 2013 predictions from Harris Real Estate University, a private organization that trains short sale agents.</em><strong>3) Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction Under Attack.</strong>The Internal Revenue Service says that only ...

Value Speak: Radical acts of benevolence

<p class="p1">There was something funny about my shoes.</p><p class="p1">No, not the smell. And not the clown-like length.</p><p class="p1">They were just … different somehow. Unmarked and unscuffed. Shinier, and yet ...

2012 Photos of the Year

Daily Herald Photos of the Year 2012Wrapping up another year at the Daily Herald, we dig back through thousands of images taken in the past 12 months and begin the arduous task of cutting down a reasonably-sized gallery for our Photos of the Year.It may take a lot of work but the end result can ...

Real Estate Matters: 2013 real estate predictions

Just in the nick of time the extension of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 passed the Senate and of this writing is still waiting for Congress and President Obama to sign off on it. The Act expired Dec. 31. Without an extension forgiven debt could be taxable as income. The ...

Value Speak: Resolving to follow through on our resolutions

<p style="text-align: left;">John was the toughest guy in the ninth grade — which wasn’t a bad thing if he liked you.</p><p class="p1">Thankfully, he liked me, and I was smart enough to figure out how to keep it that way. When he blasted me from ...

Value Speak: The rivalry cliff

<p class="p1">It wasn’t that the Bountiful Braves had a healthy disdain for their cross-town rivals, the Viewmont Vikings, and vice versa. It was that we hated each other.</p><p class="p1">Pure, white-hot hate, complete with pre- and post-game fights ...

Value Speak: Peace on Earth?

<p class="p1">The air is crisp and cold in the mountains where I live — just as it should be in December. The final remnants of last weekend’s snowfall can still be seen here and there on the lawn, with more snow expected in the next day or two.  They say we’ll have a white ...

What did Chuck Norris ever do to you?

A Dallas-area clothing store, Urban Outfitters, displayed a painted plywood poster of Chuck Norris as Walker, Texas Ranger with an American flag in the background and a gun in each hand. The face was an oval cutout so you could stand behind the board and put your own mug where Chuck's would ...

Rock Docs: The bridge fuel

To a geologist like me, it was most notable by its absence in the political campaigns that lurched to their conclusions in November. I’m talking about an energy plan with real teeth, one that addresses everything from national security to the cost of energy to greenhouse warming of the ...