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 ...

<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 ...

<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 ...

<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 ...

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 ...

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 ...