Single seeks tax breaks.
While the above title is unlikely to be seen in the personal ads any time soon, that's probably due to a lack of likely responses more than a lack of desire. Many tax planning strategies and opportunities are reliant on dependents, such as spouses, children or grandchildren, to operate...

News Bites.
* April 23-29 is national "Turn off Your TV" week. Coincidentally, it is also "Roll Back the Rug and Teach the Kids the Electric Slide" week. Americans spend an average of four hours each day, or nine years by age 65, watching TV. Wouldn't you rather spend that time...

Assembly Council faces intriguing dilemma.
FLAMES were everywhere at the March meeting of Assembly Council. The two-day meeting listened to presentations from the Life and Mission Agency, with the various ministries outlining their FLAMES initiatives. FLAMES is the acronym for a six-year focus on specific areas of ministry: Focus on youth, Laity...

Airport Business News - North America.
May 5, 2008 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will set a Tuesday procedural vote on a measure to modernize the nation's aviation infrastructure. The vote functions as a deadline of sorts for Democrats and Republicans to break an impasse over which amendments will be allowed onto...

Company Watch - Auckland International.
Apr 14, 2008 Canadian State Pension Fund (CPPIB) had offered to reduce its voting rights to 24.9 percent, the threshold for overseas ownership, from a previous 30 percent of the Auckland International Airport, to ease government concerns about foreign control. CPPIB had got a total of 63.5...

Airport Business News - Asia / Pacific.
Apr 14, 2008 Auckland International Canadian State Pension Fund (CPPIB) had offered to reduce its voting rights to 24.9 percent, the threshold for overseas ownership, from a previous 30 percent of the Auckland International Airport, to ease government concerns about foreign control. CPPIB had got...

Alaska Airlines Presents Counter-Offers on Pilot Contract.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-21 May 2008-Alaska Airlines Presents Counter-Offers on Pilot Contract(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com As part of its ongoing negotiations with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), Alaska Airlines presented counter-offers on key sections of a proposed contract. Alaska Airlines issued the following...

Airport Business News - Asia / Pacific.
Apr 7, 2008 New Zealand's main international gateway and takeover target Auckland International Airport said on Thursday it would postpone a planned expansion of its international arrivals terminal. The airport, which is awaiting government approval for a NZD$1.8 billion (USD$1.4 billion) partial takeover bid by a Canadian...

Pension tension: our other retirement time bomb.
THE DEBATE over Social Security reform has put the retirement program's fiscal woes in the headlines. But public attention hasn't yet fixed on the foundering Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the government program that insures private employers' pension programs--and that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) calls a "looming train wreck...

The coming GLBT senior boom.
GLBT ELDERS experience a number of particular concerns as they age. In a recent study (Shippy, et al., 2001), three in four gay elders reported not being completely open about their sexual orientation to healthcare workers. Discrimination following disclosure of sexual orientation has been reported in nursing homes and...