Do You Need a Trust? What Type?
When you start working on your estate plan (a good thing to do), you may want to consider establishing a trust. What are some circumstances which make trusts useful? What kinds of trusts are possible…
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Estate Planning: Not Like This!
We all need to be organized about how our assets, medical care and family responsibilities will be managed when we die or become incapacitated. Simply put, this means having an estate plan. Experts point out…
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Stuck in Traffic: Add It Up!
The cost of freight transport delays have been analyzed by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The conclusion? Yikes! Perhaps understanding just how painful the “chokepoints” along our interstate highways are will help…
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Big Construction in the Northeast?
It’s happening. Step by step, big infrastructure projects are hitting the schematic and pre-design phases. Dollars and budgets are lining up too. Valued at a total of over $132 billion, here are the top 10…
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Charity? Clarify Intentions!
The ongoing difficulties among the founding families of Boar’s Head hit home the important lesson of making our intentions official—legally—before we die. Privacy, Please? How much do you know about the people behind the Boar’s…
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Investing in Bonds
As we steer out of pandemic-induced social isolation, financial experts remind those of us who have been lucky enough to continue working and saving—to invest in bonds—the kind of social bonds we need in life—and…
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88,000 Square Feet Along the River?
What would you build with that? How about constructing a snake run, a flow bowl and an amoeba pool? Sounds like a $6.1 million skatepark, right? After 17 years of planning, fundraising and building…
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Dig This?
For years, building a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River has been deemed a “top priority” infrastructure project for the New York-New Jersey region—and the country. Finally, a plan and funding are coming…
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Wills: Terminology Explained
As you move from thinking you “should” make a will to getting on with doing so, you might encounter some confusing legal terminology. Don’t let that stop you. Here are a few basic terms to…
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