Brass Tacks on Estate Planning
Bottom line up front. You have a 100 percent chance of dying. It is the third leg of the only constants in life, which is death, taxes, and change. The baby boom generation is dying off. One report says 20 ...
Read More Farm Bill Smarm Bill
Farm Bill Smarm Bill It is becoming increasingly clear that Ag is losing some clout in the hallowed halls of DC. Many provisions of the permanent law known collectively as the “Farm Bill” are set to expire on 30 September. ...
Read More Hold your regulator horses
From the same litigation group that helped narrow up the scope of the government’s claim to regulate every last puddle of water in the United States, another victory against omnipresent government. The Villegases had property in Lincoln County, NE. They ...
Read More The government stops here.
Okay, that would be fun place to find. Realistically, government is all around us and we are subject to a dizzying array of rules, regulations, codes, and taxing schemes. It is unescapable. We can only seek to have less government, ...
Read More Rolling in the mud
The long-awaited decision on if California residents, can by proposition, put an item on the ballot to dictate without any basis in science, the conditions under which pork is allowed to be produced for sale in California, regardless of production ...
Read More Clean up time
Clean up time this time of year we run into plugs and problems with the return of spring growth. Here are some things to consider. Damaged drain tile. Tree roots from a neighbor’s trees plugged the higher elevation landowner’s drainage ...
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