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President Donald Trump threatened to repeal the federal estate tax during his campaign. The President and Congress promise to make good on their campaign promises and repeal the estate tax that would hit many of Trump’s cabinet members hard. California Senator Scott Wiener has another plan to offset the tax revenue lost if the repeal […]

The groundhog recently predicted that we’ll have six more weeks of winter. However, there are people in certain U.S. cities that would disagree with this prediction, as they’re already experiencing heavy rains and flooding from rapidly melting snow. Oroville, CA Dam Threatens Flooding A small town in northern California, about an hour north of Sacramento, […]

Susan J. Fowler, an Ex-Uber employee shared her bad experience at Uber and why she left Uber and joined Stripe. She wrote an essay on her blog that the Uber has a big problem with sexism in the workplace. She alleged a clown car-worth of institutional sexism, HR incompetence and organizational disorder. I wrote something […]

The US Presidential election season saw aggressive campaigning from both sides and according to reports published in May 2016, the sale of US flags rose as much as 15 percent compared to the previous year. While a lot of this was attributed to the campaigning, a significant chunk of the sales also come from the summertime […]

In late November 2016, a tragic accident occurred at the intersection of Garland Avenue and Nevada Street in north Spokane. The accident had fatal consequences: Heather A. Hope, age 29, was partially ejected from the SUV in which she was a passenger when the vehicle rolled over following a T-bone collision. She was pinned under […]

Americans now have a higher credit score than they did before the 2008 financial crisis, research shows. According to a report from ValuePenguin, the FICO average credit score in the U.S. is 695, an all-time high. The average Vantage score has hit 671. FICO and Vantage are among the most widely-used credit scoring models in […]