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I'm in the office, now, doing the weekly payroll. We're part of the 'old breed', you see, who still use a combination of DOS programs and dot-matrix printers- the DOS & DOT dinosaurs, so to speak. As a result, we have to page through the booklets each year that the IRS and the Social Security Administration send out, to glean the changes for the upcoming year. This year, the powers-that-be have decreed that FICA withholding rates have been changed. To reduce things too english, let's say you earned $ 500.00 this week. You won't receive that money. Instead, of course,...

On Thursday, the Lubbock, Texas city council voted to delay installation of red light cameras after a local television station exposed the city's short timing of yellow lights at eight of the twelve intersections where the devices were to be installed. "Many folks believe this is a money grab and then we found out through KCBD Television there's a discrepancy in timing," Councilman Gary Boren said, as quoted by KCBD. Earlier this month, the station cited the rule-of-thumb that Lubbock City Engineer Jere Hart asserted as the basis for timing lights at city intersections. At most of the proposed camera...