Behind all the pink and red, a little green can peer out from beneath all of the sugar on Valentine's Day. No, not green as in cold, hard cash. The type of green flowing through electric cars and compost heaps.
While you shower your sweetheart with love, embrace Mother Nature with a little love, too.
Try these green Valentine's Day tips if you are the last minute type or file them away for the next time you want to show someone some sugar. . . .
So most of us are use to taxes being due April 15. Well my friends, you have two more days this year. Lucky us. Want to know why taxes are due on April 17 this year? Watch this thrilling video made by the IRS. Giving us tax tips, what more could we want!
What I like most is the fact that the IRS looks like the are using a Mac computer calendar. Being classy. I like it. . . .
Every weekend and a few nights a week, Cole volunteers to prepare taxes for people in the Lincoln during tax season. Whether on East Campus or Main Campus, you'll find Cole filter through people's life in the form of numbers, helping them figure out all of the forms the government needs.
Since he freshman year, he has done this through a program called Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA). VITA helps people who make less than $50,000 with basic tax returns. These volunteers, such as Cole, inform the people who visit them about about special tax credits, such as Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and Credit for the Elderly or the Disabled.In Cole's case, he does this on a campus, but libraries, community centers, schools and other convenient community locations also pop up on the VITA map. . . .
For the last few months, I have been working on the railroad. No, not swinging a hammer or picking up tools like the song would suggest. I sit in front of a computer clicking here and there and touching up railroaders who work for companies throughout the United States.
I work for a place called News Link, and I design and change the newsletters the company makes. . . .
