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Flex Spending Accounts: Use It Or Lose It!

December 18, 2011 By Manisha Thakor 1 Comment

Would you like to experience less (financial) stress and more (money) joy this holiday season? If you’re a flexible spending account (FSA) user, there’s an easy way for you to get both: take a look at your current FSA account balance and spend down any remaining funds. Yes, you heard that correctly. I’m encouraging you [...]

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Death by Healthy Doses

December 7, 2011 By Walter M. Brasch Leave a Comment

They buried Bouldergrass today. The cause of death was listed as “media-induced health.” Bouldergrass had begun his health crusade more than a decade ago when he began reading more than the sports pages of his local newspaper, subscribed to his first magazine, and decided TV news could be informative if it didn’t mention anything about [...]

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Remembering Two-Spirits This Thanksgiving

November 23, 2011 By Rev. Irene Monroe Leave a Comment

Every year I submit this piece for Thanksgiving, because it captures, in my humble opinion, the best way I can express my outrage of the genocide of Native Americans that is summarily glossed over with a national celebration and an annual holiday of its occupiers. As I prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday, I am reminded [...]

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Is Your Financial Chi Blocked?

November 3, 2011 By Manisha Thakor Leave a Comment

My friend Marla is turning 50 this year. As she approaches Menopause, this savvy fitness buff decided to explore acupuncture as a way to moderate her hormonal swings. When I learned that acupuncture is a practice that stems back to China’s Neolithic Age, (c. 8000-3500 BC), I was fascinated and asked Marla to teach me more. First, [...]

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Halloween: Our American Gay Holiday

October 27, 2011 By Rev. Irene Monroe Leave a Comment

Halloween is America’s gay holiday. In the words of the lesbian poet and scholar Judy Grahn, Halloween is “the great gay holiday.” And this weekend of lavish costumed theatricality will attract everyone, but especially lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) revelers. Back in the day, Halloween — the night before All Hallows Day (All [...]

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Vietnam’s Students Flock to English Class

October 20, 2011 By Jim Rhodes 9 Comments

Sometimes when I am collecting my thoughts before I begin putting an article together, I will surf through the TV channels as a diversion while I make notes and redirect mental energies. Television programming in Hanoi is a mini-history of what is currently happening here today. I quickly skipped over the Vietnamese language programs, which [...]

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Common-Sense Reforms Could Improve FSAs

September 3, 2011 By Manisha Thakor Leave a Comment

There’s no doubt that resolving our debt crisis is important, but what is top of mind for many is to find ways to deal with our own household economic needs. Beyond broader economic solutions, the federal government should seek to implement policies that provide immediate relief to consumers struggling with such challenges as stagnant wages [...]

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The Media’s Outing of Queen Latifah

August 15, 2011 By Rev. Irene Monroe 1 Comment

If you are “chomping at the bit” for down-to-earth Jersey girl Dana Owens a.k.a reigning Hip-hop’s Queen Latifah to come out of her open closet, don’t hold your breath. If, however, you’ve derived pleasure from Queen Latifah’s unintended “Gotcha!” moments of being outed — and there are many — so, too, has the media. But [...]

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Uncle Sam Can Help With Summer Camp Costs

August 1, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Ask a working parent how they feel about summer and you may be surprised. Thoughts of beaches, barbeques, and balmy days at the ballpark are often overshadowed by something much less exotic – concerns about childcare. If you have children under the age of 13, and you need childcare so that you can work, [...]

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Owners Say the Darndest Things

July 27, 2011 By Michael Sigman Leave a Comment

That Rupert Murdoch has always coveted power and money over ideology is best demonstrated by remembering that from 1977-85, he owned the Village Voice. And the News Corp chief pretty much allowed what was then the premier paper of the Left to thrive on its own terms. David Schneiderman, the Voice‘s editor during much of [...]

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Flex Spending Accounts: Use It Or Lose It!

Death by Healthy Doses

Remembering Two-Spirits This Thanksgiving

Is Your Financial Chi Blocked?

Halloween: Our American Gay Holiday

Vietnam’s Students Flock to English Class

Common-Sense Reforms Could Improve FSAs

The Media’s Outing of Queen Latifah

Uncle Sam Can Help With Summer Camp Costs

Owners Say the Darndest Things

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