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»  In Pictures: Seven Smart Ways To Save
With tax season fast approaching, there's never been a better time to consider opening a tax-favored savings account.

» Podcast #1 Notes

Podcast #1 is up and running -- see below.

Here's the plan with respect to future podcasts:

#2: Wills
#3: Living Trusts
#4: Health Directives
#5: The Estate Tax
#6: Simple Gifting
#7: Not-so-simple Gifting
#8: Probate Basics
#9: Trust Administration
#10: Probate and Trust Litigation

I'm new to this, so comments are much appreciated. Am I talking too loudly? Too softly? Too quickly? Just let me know, and I'll try to correct it on future podcasts.

The opening and closing music is "Musette," by the French composer Felix Le Couppey (1811-1887).

» Farm owner transfer session planned in Stratford

STRATFORD -- Because of the overwhelming response to the farm transfer workshop in December, Clark and Marathon County UW-Extension will hold a farm transfer workshop March 26 at the Country Aire in Stratford ... via WisInfo

» Down to "The Wire"

I have praised "The Wire" before (here and here) -- I think it's the best thing I've ever seen on TV. Tonight is the series finale. It will probably be impossible to understand what's going on if you are new to the show, but there's always DVD.

"The Wire" isn't a law show per se -- although the show does touch on legal institutions -- but its creator and some of its writers have taken a unique legal position (known as jury nullification) in this article in Time magazine:

If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts of violence or intended violence are alleged, we will — to borrow Justice Harry Blackmun's manifesto against the death penalty — no longer tinker with the machinery of the drug war. No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its poorest, most damaged and most desperate citizens.

» For Real Planning, Start With the Review Schedule
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