Keep Your Home Heating System Humming with an Annual Check Up Preventive Furnace Maintenance Offers Energy Efficiency and Safety

 As the weather has turned colder, now is the best time for an inspection and tune up of your home heating system by a properly licensed mechanical contractor to make sure your system is operating safely and efficiently to keep you and your family warm all season.

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The Fatherhood Project: Manish Madan: My Two I’s and The Joy of Fatherhood

 

 Enjoying summer bliss with his girls, Irena, 2 years and Ivannah, 4.5 years. Dr. Manish Madan gives shares his life lessons to his children.

 
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Interpersonal Edge: Sharing key facts decreases employees’ anxiety in times of change

 

By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Content Agency
 
Q. My company is facing huge changes starting next year. Rumors are flying around the company, but we are trying to keep the facts about the changes quiet until 2017. The problem is that, along with the rumors, we have increasing anxiety flying around our office. How can we in upper management manage the anxiety without revealing all the data about what will happen next year?

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Choosing the RIGHT Financial Institution

  By Porsche Miles-Grant

 
At this point, as a responsible adult and a productive citizen of America, you should belong to some type of financial institution. Whether it is a bank or credit union, your finances should be located in a safe and secured place. 

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Jill on Money: Forget the election; focus on investment long haul

 

By Jill Schlesinger

Tribune Content Agency

Defying the polls and odds, Donald J. Trump won the presidential election. As the results became clear on the evening of November 8, financial markets around the world reacted swiftly: Stocks plunged (at one point during the overnight session, U.S. futures were down 5 percent, indicating a more than 800 point wipe out for the Dow Jones Industrial Average), the Mexican peso cratered by 13 percent, the U.S. dollar tumbled and safe havens like gold, U.S. Treasury bonds and the Japanese yen jumped.

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Organizing Your Finances: Before and After a Personal Loss

 

Presented by Sara Frank-Hepfer, CFP®, AAMS®
 
Life’s uncertainties can present us with personal hardships that affect us not only emotionally, but financially as well. 

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