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It’s getting harder and harder to brace ourselves for the ongoing images of human struggle. They just keep coming. No matter your position on what’s happening, either nationally or abroad, the possibility of disaster touching us -- that is out of our control -- is...

Over the weekend, we were "treated" to heartbreaking images.No matter how any South Kansas City person feels about our involvement as a nation in Afghanistan, the human toll of that involvement -- and now our seemingly hurried departure -- can affect the hardest of...

You’ve probably got a story to tell. The one about how you got to where you are today. It probably involves lots of hard work and sacrifice. And money.Last I checked, people weren’t giving away their South Kansas Cityhomes and cars. And I bet that you put locks on...

The federal government is handing out a lot of money to South Kansas City individuals lately. Remember those stimulus payments that started showing up in your bank account last year? There’s more en route...Now comes the federal advance payments of the Child Tax...

Before I jump into outlining good debt vs bad debt for all those in South Kansas City trying to tackle their personal debt, let’s touch on some news from everyone’s not-so-favorite government agency. Late last week (Friday news dump?), ye olde Internal Revenue Service...

Alright, South Kansas City readers, before we jump into the tax scams 2021 edition, let’s circle back on some info we posted about recently ... the IRS sent out a lot of moolah last week -- and, if you have children, you might have received some.Note: If you received...

I normally don't send these special bulletins, but I wanted to get this to South Kansas City parents ASAP.You probably heard on the news that the IRS is sending out "advance payments" of $250 - $300 per month for children.The first advance child tax credit payments...

I'm going to stick with last week's theme on being financially independent because I got some nice feedback. Before I get there, a quick word about the IRS for our friends in South Kansas City...Per Kiplinger, as of June 25, the IRS had a backlog of 16.7 million...

In our digitally saturated age, it takes somebody with an iron will to not be impacted by the environment around us. There is a sense of impending doom among some of my South Kansas City clients, a weight of cultural fissure and confusion. More and more think pieces...

Whether it's an annoying duck with a one-word vocabulary, or a refined gecko, or a personified mayhem, you've undoubtedly been bombarded by commercials from company after company trying to get you to switch auto insurance carriers.Have you shopped around for this...