The Rural Law Center at the University of Wyoming College of Law is sponsoring the Farm and Ranch Transition Conference on March 3, 2017, a Friday, in Laramie. It’s free. The conference is open to the public. Those interested may attend either in person or via live streaming video. The program sounds interesting.
From Lincoln’s Address before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, a speech well worth reading in full: At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All […]
I just stumbled upon this list of 24 [supposedly] Must-Read Blogs for Entrepreneurs. I can’t vouch for them because I haven’t read them all, but many of the names behind the blogs are recognizable: Mark Cuban, Penelope Trunk, Scott Adams, Guy Kawasaki, and others, so go take a look. If you’re thinking of or are in the middle […]
Northwestern Mutual recently published a survey of caregivers, those who take care of the infirm and aged. Among other things, this is what they found, according to Financial Advisor magazine: Caregivers comprise a massive population segment, with 40 percent of the survey’s 1,003 respondents saying they were caregivers. Another 20 percent expect to step into that […]
At the link is an interesting piece at WealthManagement.com that compares the reasons people gave in 1927 for not making a will with the reasons people give now. It’s worth a read if for no other reason than the photographs from those bygone days are great. That said, here are the reasons people gave in […]
So by now, you probably know that the Larry and Gail Miller family insured that the Utah Jazz would forever be the Utah Jazz–musical Mormon jokes aside (by the way ever heard of BYU’s Synthesis?). They did so via a so-called dynasty or legacy trust, a trust intended to live on and on and on, well […]
In case you haven’t noticed, Washington D.C. is a sieve on a sinking ship whose life rafts have holes in them. And I’m not talking about Donald Trump. No, it’s the ATF, also known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explsives, aka BATFE. But they’re going with ATF, and so are we. On […]