Tax Talk

You Can Run, But….

The world of law enforcement lost a pioneer last week with the death of Gerald Shur. As a young prosecutor targeting what one member described as "a... Read More

The More Things Changeth . . .

Living as we doth in this age of Technologie, 'tis easy to believest that many Things we take for granted are new. 1,000 years ago, there was naught... Read More

California Dreamin’

After World War II, a generation of returning veterans turned California into America's golden dream. Industries like shipbuilding and aerospace... Read More

What Are the Odds?

Coronavirus has upended nearly every aspect of American life, including of course sports. First was the chaos of interrupting leagues mid-season... Read More

Bloody Complicated

In 2004, Stephanie Meyer sparked a bona fide cultural phenomenon with her debut novel, Twilight, recounting the romance between 17-year-old... Read More

Looking For a Lake House?

A century ago, New York's richest families didn't summer in the Hamptons. (Yes, this is a story about people who use "summer" as a verb, with a... Read More

Be the Ball

Forty years ago this weekend, Orion Pictures released a comedy producers pitched as "Animal House on a golf course." The movie featured a scrappy... Read More

Aloha!

Coronavirus has millions of Americans rethinking where they choose to live, especially crowded cities. Back in February and March, New Yorkers led... Read More

Tax-Free Ninjas

Colleges looking to compete for students have added new fields like cybersecurity, political campaign management, and even beer fermentation. (That... Read More

Tax Footprint

This week's story takes us to Verkhoyansk, a frozen flyspeck of a town with 1,300 shivering souls deep inside Siberia, six miles from the Arctic... Read More