I recently listened to a YouTube video that involved Anton Krutz, the owner of Kansas City Strings in Merriam, Kansas, giving a talk and answering questions with a high school orchestra class. He definitely caught my attention with his views on education, especially as it relates to the future of science education.
Monday was Tax Day – the federal deadline for individual tax filing and payments – and the IRS expects to receive tens of millions of last-minute filings electronically and through paper forms. As of April 8, the IRS had received more than 103 million returns for this tax season, and it had issued more than 63 million refunds worth more than $204 billion.
For many U.S. Christians, this weekend marked the first time since 2019 that they gathered in person on Easter Sunday, a welcome chance to celebrate one of the year’s holiest days side by side with fellow congregants.
Government regulation of women who become pregnant from rape has suddenly grabbed national headlines. That’s because state legislatures around America are considering numerous controversial bills that would ban abortion access for these women.
Dear Amy: My daughter’s boyfriend is a self-taught personal trainer (with no professional training). He had previously been an airplane mechanic.
Since becoming a county commissioner in 2019, I have never seen an issue that has galvanized the citizens to act like the issue of exploding valuations of property which leads to dramatic increases in property taxes leveled against residents. Solving the property valuation issue will ultimately require action by our legislators in Topeka. Several solutions have been proposed including limiting increases on those with fixed incomes and providing additional government payments or tax rebates to qualifying individuals impacted by high property taxes.
For years, Tennessee Democratic Senate Minority Leader Jeff Yarbro’s call to require the state’s voting infrastructure to include a paper record of each ballot cast has been batted down in the Republican-dominated Legislature.
Nearly every day during the years of being dad’s caretaker, he’d tell me how glad he was to be in his own home – to work in the yard and visit with neighbors. Some of this repetition was from dementia, but mostly because he was truly happy.
Dear Amy: A few years ago, my in-laws sent my (then) young-adult daughter a birthday card. Normally this would have included a monetary gift or gift card. However, when she opened it there was simply a note stating that there would be no gift, as they did not agree with what she was hoping to spend some of her birthday money on (a tattoo).
President Joe Biden has called Russia’s war on Ukraine a genocide and accused Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes. But his administration has struggled with how much intelligence it is willing to give the Ukrainian forces that are trying to stop the Russian leader.