Why is President Trump willing to pay almost $1 billion of our tax money to increase our utility bills? That is essentially what Trump did when he agreed to pay the French company TotalEnergies $928 million to cancel the leases it already had signed for wind farms in the waters off New York and North […]

Let’s step away from the stepped-up basis.

June 5, 2026, marked 45 years since the first case of HIV was reported. In the early 1980s, a diagnosis was confusing and frightening because the condition was not well understood. As a person who had gotten sick with pneumocystis pneumonia in early 1982, I was told to go home and get my affairs in order. I was given the diagnosis […]