Kansas City: There is no small amount of excitement in writing about a significant victory in a serious and long-term fight as I did in reporting on the tentative agreement with H&R Block. The campaigns are so intense and riveting that once done, the report feels mundane. Partly because it is hard to adequately convey all …
Author: wade
The Business of Taxes
Kansas City: H&R Block is the largest tax preparer in the country, grinding out close to 20 million returns a year. They make the market in more ways that one can imagine when it comes to moving taxes and refunds. Their path crosses with ACORN in ways that might surprise until one thinks about it. First, …
Flights from Hell
Washington-Chicago-New Orleans: Modern travel stands math and geography on its head – unless price is no limit, and perhaps even if price is no problem, simply because you can no longer “get there from here.” If you live and work on the road, which I have done for thirty years, you always have stories of travel …