Wolfgang Puck: Sugar cookies are always a tasty, reliable treat for the holidays

 

By Wolfgang Puck

Tribune Content Agency

  Whenever I fly to Florida to spend a weekend on Home Shopping Network, Marian Getz – who joins me on-screen and previously worked as executive pastry chef at my Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe in Orlando – always greets me with a plate of freshly baked cookies.

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News Spotlight: Community: SCAM ALERT: Fake Internal Revenue Service calls

  

Please be aware of a scam in the area, where the callers state they are from the Internal Revenue Service attempting to collect money for back taxes, or you will be arrested and charged with tax fraud.

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Movie Review: Steve Jobs

  Studio: Universal Pictures (2 hr. 2 min)

Plot: Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Katherine Waterston, Kate Winslet, Sarah Snook, Jeff Daniels
Rating: R
Bottom Line: ***
 

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TAX SOLUTIONS: What is a Retirement Plan?

  

 

The IRS has a secret account for all U.S. citizens. There is money in the secret account accessible to taxpayers. By filing Form 1099-OID, taxpayers can gain access to their own secret account.  

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Opinion: Was It a Case of Racism or Bad Behavior at Spring Valley High?

 

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

New America Media
 
The mop–up of the classroom floor with a black student at Spring Valley High School by canned South Carolina Richland County Deputy Ben Fields ignited two firestorms. The first was over Fields’ physical manhandling of the student. 

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Interpersonal Edge: Get support for personal tragedy outside the workplace

 

By Dr. Daneen Skube

Tribune Content Agency
 
Q. I’m going through a bad divorce and a cancer diagnosis. I do not know how much to tell people at work. Obviously, I’m thinking about my personal life a lot, but I don’t want other people to see me as incompetent. How can I maintain both my credibility and my sanity through this difficult time? 

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Jill on Money: Health care enrollment season present dizzying choices

 By Jill Schlesinger

Tribune Content Agency
 
  Just in time for the upcoming benefit enrollment period, the Kaiser Family Foundation has released its annual survey of employer health plans, which cover more than half of the non-elderly population, or 147 million people.
 

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The Kid’s Doctor: Middle ear issues can be remedied without surgery

 By Sue Hubbard, M.D.

www.kidsdr.com
 
I read an intriguing study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal about children who have persistent middle ear fluid (otitis media with effusion). The problem is fairly common and is often a reason that children will undergo a day surgical procedure to insert tympanostomy tubes (ear tubes). In fact, my 11-month-old granddaughter just had tubes placed.
 

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