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	<title>Domestic Dollars: When two hearts beat as one&#44; save some restraint for the accounting</title>
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Money: In the mainstream&#44; the milestones are more easily recognizable&#46; Boy meets girl&#46; Often&#44; cohabitation follows&#46; An engagement &#45;&#45; or accidental pregnancy &#45;&#45; may follow or precede the move&#45;in&#46; Then marriage&#44; and its attendant benefits&#44; from tax&#45;free commingling of the wealth to a survivor&#39;s Social Security benefits&#46; For the same&#45;sex couple&#44; it&#39;s a bit trickier&#46; Trained to forge our way as taxpayers whose relationships &#45;&#45; from Vermont civil union to imported Provincetown marriage &#45;&#45; have no standing whatsoever from the federal government&#44; including the IRS&#44; that second&#45;class snub encourages us to be a bit more independent than our opposite&#45;sex counterparts&#46; There&#39;s no way&#44; for example&#44; John Curtin and Aaron Overman&#44; a professional couple in Columbia Heights&#44; could ever handle their finances in their parents&#39; footsteps&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Finding a Fearless Future: Masters of money to offer retirement advice for all ages and incomes</title>
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Money: Once upon a time&#44; retirement was the obvious reward for the latter part of life&#39;s journey&#46; Put in your years at the desk&#44; on the assembly line&#44; wherever you may be&#44; then spend your golden years suckling the teat of your pension as you soak up sun in Boca Raton&#46; A new understanding of the dangers of sun exposure alone is enough to send that notion into history&#39;s dustbin&#46; Add to that the scariest economic downturn in a generation and the steady slide employers have made to remove themselves from their employees&#39; retirement equations&#44; and Boca may be looking more like dining on generic cat food and deciding whether your budget means no anti&#45;inflammatory meds or no high blood pressure pills this month&#46; &#34;At the end of the day&#44; it comes down to a core principle&#58; What is your goal&#63;&#34; says Joe Kapp&#44; one of the three experts who will be sharing their financial acumen at a May 31 workshop&#44; &#34;Can I Afford To Retire&#63;&#34;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Nuptial Know&#45;How: Two local couples want to help you find gay&#45;friendly vendors for your big day</title>
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Money: Planning a wedding can be expensive and nerve&#45;wracking&#46; And if you&#39;ve decided to tie the knot with your other half and you just happen to be of the same gender&#44; things can get even more stressful&#46; Kelly Prizel and her wife&#44; Natalie Prizel&#44; got married in September 2008&#46; They recommend gay couples find vendors who are gay or &#39;&#39;actively involved in the gay community&#46;&#39;&#39; &#39;&#39;Your wedding is really the day about committing yourself to someone else&#44;&#39;&#39; Kelly says&#46; &#39;&#39;There&#39;s this love&#44; and you&#39;re openly committing yourself to another person in front of all these people&#46; When you have different vendors working with you on that day&#44; you want to be not only openly affectionate&#44; but feel like these people are cheering you on&#46;&#39;&#39;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Planning the Game of Life: There&#39;s no time like the present for new graduates to make plans for their futures</title>
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Money: As summer approaches&#44; there is one thing on every senior&#39;s mind&#58; graduation&#46; Parents flying in&#44; hats tossed&#44; and the paralyzing fear of knowing you&#39;ll need a job&#46; In this economy&#44; it can get a bit overwhelming&#46; But getting and keeping a job isn&#39;t the only thing those joining the professional masses should be thinking about&#46; There are more than a few &#39;&#39;life&#45;keeping&#39;&#39; practices you can start now &#45;&#45; some because they&#39;re age appropriate&#44; some because they&#39;ll just make your life that much easier down the road&#46; One example is mentorship programs&#46; Most colleges offer some sort of mentorship program&#44; usually through graduate programs&#46; Some programs will set up networking opportunities for students to mingle with alumni&#44; giving them the tools they need to form a mentorship&#46; Others will set up a personal one&#45;on&#45;one relationship between student and alumni&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Vanquishing Vulnerabilities: Investing in insurance may provide premium peace of mind in troubled times</title>
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Money: A birthday is a good time to stop and take stock of one&#39;s situation&#46; How&#39;s the body&#45; The career&#45; The relationships&#45; And so on&#46; Thinking of New Year&#39;s Day as a collective birthday for the world&#44; the start of 2009 is a particularly good time &#45;&#45; what with the current economic bad tidings &#45;&#45; to assess your protection&#46; Or&#44; rather&#44; your insurance&#46; Sometimes insurance can mean knowing you&#39;re in rich Aunt Hester&#39;s will&#44; or that you have all&#45;wheel drive&#46; It can even be bona fide insurance policies celebrities might purchase to insure career&#45;making body parts&#46; For most&#44; however&#44; it&#39;s nothing so exotic&#46; Insurance is&#44; however&#44; crucial and full of choices and variations&#46; &#39;&#39;I sell 95 products &#45;&#45; life&#44; homeowners&#44; liability&#44; health&#44; disability&#44; annuity products&#44;&#39;&#39; says Sharon Eddy&#44; an agent with State Farm Insurance in Alexandria&#44; just getting warmed up&#46; &#39;&#39;I do all kinds&#46; I&#39;ve had 21 years in this business&#46;&#39;&#39;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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