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Your Money: Should you claim social security now and invest your benefits?
5+ hour ago (716+ words) From time to time, we get a listener question on our Sunday morning show on WCCO that opens the door to a much larger financial planning conversation. This is one of those questions: "I'm 62. I don't need Social Security to…...
Alysa Liu walked away from skating. Her fresh outlook when she returned helped her win Olympic gold
1+ week, 1+ day ago (949+ words) By DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer Maybe that is why she won it. The 20-year-old with the striped hair, prominent frenulum piercing and carefree attitude never showed any worry or strain when she took the ice for her free skate…...
White Bear Lake Police Chief Dale Hager will retire May 8, the city has announced
2+ week, 5+ day ago (210+ words) White Bear Lake Police Chief Dale Hager will retire May 8, the city of White Bear Lake announced on Monday in a'Facebook post. Hager became chief in 2023 and overall spent 12 years with the city, including working as an administrative captain in…...
Olympics: Vonn’s coach says he has ‘no doubts’ she will ski in Games
3+ week, 3+ day ago (738+ words) CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy " Lindsey Vonn needed to use a crutch to get around over the weekend. Now she's performing box jumps, working out in a pool while wearing a weighted vest and skiing at high speed. No wonder the 41-year-old…...
Your baby could qualify for $1,000 with a Trump Account. Here’s what to know
1+ mon, 12+ hour ago (801+ words) By MAKIYA SEMINERA and MORIAH BALINGIT, Associated Press Education Writer As a continuation of President'Donald Trump's pitch to Americans on affordability and the economy under his administration, the U.S. Treasury and White House are celebrating the upcoming launch of a program…...
Ice dancer Allison Reed returns to Olympics after 16 years, skating for Lithuania
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (890+ words) From being treated like "cattle" as a young girl to sleeping in her car off a Polish highway, Allison Reed has taken a long, hard road to follow her Olympic ice dance dream. Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Reed has traveled…...
Has figure skating reached the limits of human performance?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (968+ words) It was at a relatively minor event in upstate New York in September 2022 that Ilia Malinin, the self-anointed "Quad God" who was fast becoming the biggest name in figure skating, finally landed the jump that so many people had thought…...
Working Strategies: Timing out your post-60 career planning
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (761+ words) Second Sunday Series " This is the fifth of 12 columns on career planning post-60, which will appear the second Sunday of each month from September through August. It may be mostly symbolic, but the new year is an excellent time for…...
Your Money: A simple financial health check for any age
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (748+ words) When people hear the phrase "financial health," they often picture high income, a perfectly balanced portfolio, or a retirement account with a very large number attached to it. In reality, financial health is much more personal and far more practical....
Out with the old: With 2026 nigh, here’s some wide-ranging intel on managing transitions
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1095+ words) And for something a little different, we gave each interviewee a chance to ask a question of one of the others. So let's talk endings and beginnings. Transitions are professional organizer Laura Olivares' working life. As co-founder of Silver Solutions,…...