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Tax reform has been in the news for the last 12 months and we're getting closer to our first filing season under new laws. To help you prepare, we've put together a list of some of the biggest changes and how you can take advantage of them before the end of year to help lower your...

When does human life begin? This is a question that far too many people don't want to consider, much less answer. In most states it appears the legal or accepted answer is "at birth." But legality and acceptability aside, viability of the baby happens weeks or months prior to the...

This Thanksgiving I am thankful to not have cancer. I hope.

Don't let the cane and slight shuffle fool you. North Long Lake resident Herman Boehme is 96, but still has some swag left in his step. He took his very first steps nearly a century ago in Friedenau, Germany. Growing up in the furor of the fatherland after World War I was unforgettable....

Well, the whooping and hollering are gone for another year. We've all be exposed to about every negative thought a human is capable of uttering during this midterm election. I've been watching past episodes of "Hogan's Heroes" and "Gomer Pyle" just to get away from current events....

I seldom agree with Don Bye, the Echo's more liberal columnist, but I'm forced to this week. Undoubtedly, there is too much money in politics. This has almost always been the case and I don't know a constitutional way to change it. I don't want to live with it. But as long as we keep...