Tony Romo will do well to heed my words

Tony Romo has said goodbye to playing pro football for the Dallas Cowboys and is all set to join the high-paying (in his case, anyway) fraternity of on-air pigskin commentators.

Mercy Me

I don’t know how much weathermen get paid, but I’m pretty sure it’s more than teachers. And it doesn’t make sense, because I can guarantee you any teacher can predict the slightest climate change with the accuracy of a NASA GPS program. All they have to do is look at their students.

Having a Mow-ment

Darren Blair   Shop the Insanity By all rights, today was pretty productive. The weather was warm and clear, something it hadn’t been for a fairly long time. The chest congestion I’d been dealing with for a few days was mostly under control, so I was feeling more like myself.

Willful blindness

Lynette Sowell My front porch There is the old story of the emperor’s new clothes in which a young child stated the obvious that everyone else was ignoring. I won’t repeat the story, because I believe most everyone knows it. I recently watched a TED talk about something called willful blindness.

Can you free yourself of some investment-related taxes?

Alan Horn Financial Focus Tax Freedom Day generally falls around this time each year. This is the day when the nation as a whole has earned enough money to pay off its total tax bill for the year, according to the calculations made by the Tax Foundation.

Registration opens for Five Hills Scholarship Pageant

T he application period for the Five Hills Scholarship Pageant, formerly the Rabbit Fest Pageant, is officially open until May 1. Applications can be downloaded at www.rabbitfestpageant.com.

Mercy Me

Renae Brumbaugh Green I spend entirely too much time thinking about money. I think about not having enough of it. I think about getting more of it. I think about how I’m gonna spend the money I do have, and how I’m not gonna spend the money I don’t have.