We were sitting around the fire. We were complaining. A lot. And then we decided that there was no other enemy that stood between ourselves…
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If you live in Chicago Tax Increment Financing (TIF) likely impacts you in some way or another. TIFs cover about a third of Chicago’s land…
A Time Bank is a currency based on time. It is a group of community members who trade services with each other. If I give…
Initially my piece on death and taxes was going to be about the famous and infamous dinged by the tax collector. “Scarface” Al Capone went…
I think we all hate taxes in some shape or form. Some of you might be like Uncle Joe, Mr. Libertarian, and you don’t want…
The leak of 2m emails and other documents, mainly from the offshore haven of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), has the potential to cause a…
Since French President François Hollande was elected last May, taxes, or “les impôts”, have been the only thing on France’s mind. During his campaign, Hollande…
There’s a story we tell in the family having to do with my dad, Dikes, who has passed on now. But some years ago when…
Inner freedom is a social responsibilty – Vimala Thakar The way we treat ourselves has serious political implications. Do we take the time to exercise?…
I have been blessed with a creative life, something that is not intuitively associated with urban planners. But blessed I am with creative challenges, opportunities…
Like many of my peers, I easily stress out. I worry about waking up earlier than usual for appointments of any kind; I cannot stop…
That’s right, the world is full of brilliant madness. I personally spend a lot of time raging about how terrible things are. I try to…
How can we produce a society where we can take care of each other? Well, that’s certainly difficult here in the United States, the only…
There were several topics I considered for this “How To” post for Dr. Pop. I used to be something of a shade tree mechanic and…
I stole the title from Michel de Certeau, and this isn’t a how-to exactly, more of a how do we, how can we? These days…
The internet, and most specifically social media-oriented websites, are great at being total time burglars. Meaning, you can lose a lot of time looking at…
A Conversation with Angela Caputo Angela Caputo is an award-winning journalist with years of experience. Yet in many ways, she feels like she is just…
I have recently been commissioned to edit a book and sought some guidance from a dear friend of mine whom I once upon a time…
I like to think that my writing journey is just getting started, that my greatest growth and development is still ahead of me. My novels…
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some…