Everyone dreads opening a letter from the IRS. The Lock-in letter is common. It means the IRS has determined an employee is not withholding enough. The letter goes to the employer and the employee. This can happen if an employee…
The Nevada Democratic Party was planning to use an app for their Feb 22 caucus that was written by Shadow, the company who wrote the buggy Iowa Democratic caucus app that crashed the Iowa caucus. NDP did fire Shadow immediately…
It would just be great if deliberate disinformation about coronavirus wasn’t spreading unsourced on social media, along with blatantly anti-Chinese racism and trash journalism about how it is a biological weapon. Ignore any news report on social media that is…
The Democratic primaries and caucuses are proportional, not winner takes all. If a candidate gets 30% of the vote, they get 30% of the delegates. With an important caveat. They must poll at least 15% to get delegates. Any candidate…
The first peak in tax season has started, according to experienced tax pros in the H&R Block office where I’m doing taxes now. The first peak is about 2 weeks or so and is primarily those who got their W-2s…
The Salton Sea is an inland saline lake in southern California. It gets seriously hot in the summer. How hot? Well, one area is called Hell’s Kitchen. That’s where Controlled Thermal Resources is building a highly innovative geothermal energy plant…
Microgrids were installed in ten Puerto Rico schools after Hurricane Maria. They are running and providing electricity to buildings and water pumps after the recent earthquakes. Puerto Rico could use hundreds more microgrids (as could we all!) The important thing…
Who better to convince Republicans and independents to vote Democratic than Never Trump Republicans? They know the territory, where the bodies are buried (maybe because they buried some of them), and have run pitbull ad campaigns against Democrats. Now they…
Astonishingly (and happily), massive renewable energy projects on public land are being approved by the federal government, even as Dementia Donald babbles about windmill cancer and the high cost of renewable energy. He’s wrong on both of course. Wind turbines…