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IRS publication or tax adviser?
When writing about taxation of retirement accounts, I've referred to IRS Publication 590-B many times, as it provides guidelines to taxpayers for handling required minimum distributions (RMDs) from inherited accounts and IRA withdrawals in general. I also recommend that you talk with your tax adviser.
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Small farms growing stronger roots in South Dakota farm-to-table movement
Driving up a dirt road to the small produce stand at Bear Butte Gardens just outside Sturgis, one would never imagine the incredibly diverse ways that the organic farm is capitalizing on the rising consumer interest in healthy foods and the farm-to-table movement.
The seasonal vegetables sold at the stand remain a viable revenue ... (full story)
Big Tech's fast-expanding plans for data centers are running into stiff community opposition
SPRING CITY, Pa. (AP) — Tech companies and developers looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don't want to live next to them, or even near them.
Communities across the United States a ... (full story)
Local
Taming the moral menace at capitalism's core
(THE CONVERSATION) Digital disruption and the climate crisis are often framed as economic or social challenges. But they force crucial moral questions. Who will be held accountable for the human cost? What will it take to transform business culture so that those costs are not treated as inevitable and acceptable?
In my view, the ... (full story)
Seeking honor is a double-edged sword – from ancient Greece to samurai Japan, thinkers have wrestled with whether it's the way to virtue
(THE CONVERSATION) Pete Hegseth, the current defense secretary, has stressed what he calls the "warrior ethos," while other Americans seem to have embraced a renewed interest in "warrior culture."
Debate about these concepts actually traces back for thousands of years. Thinkers have long wrestled with what it ... (full story)
State
Trump officials loosen strings on federal education money for Iowa. More states could follow
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is giving Iowa more power to decide how it spends its federal education money, signing off on a proposal that is expected to be the first of many as conservative states seek new latitude from a White House promising to "return education to the states."
Iowa was the first ... (full story)
Hegseth censures Sen. Kelly after Democrats' video urging troops to resist unlawful orders
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced recently that he censured Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over the former Navy pilot's participation in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders.
Hegseth said the censure — by itself simply a formal letter with little practical consequenc ... (full story)