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Now that the elections are over, we are all adjusting to the idea of President Donald Trump. Even typing those words is an odd experience (as it would also have been to type "President Hillary Clinton") ... we've had eight years of President Barack Obama, and however...

I'm specifically putting this together on Monday, November 7th, before Election Day, before we know the outcome of our long national sojourn. So many have been writing things like "I can't wait for this election to be over!" and I have felt the same. But now is when...

I wanted to put this on your radar before the next few weeks, when (apparently) our nation (and perhaps even our little village of Birmingham) will be going down in flames. If we are to believe either/both sides of this nasty election, if Trump/Clinton...

Well, our "extension season" is behind us (as of Monday the 17th), and we here at Team Hancock can finally turn our full attention to what's coming down the pike in 2017.   With the election brewing around us, Congress isn't doing *anything* right now about tax...

In a few weeks, I intend to post here a look at the tax policies being proposed by each presidential candidate. Much of it is "campaign bluster", but some of it does show how each of them might affect your wallet, and mine. In the meantime, there's a lot of argument...

I write these notes on Mondays, and as of today, we don't yet know what kind of drama (if any) will occur during the presidential debate set for tonight. But regardless of all the political posturing, we're all facing so much emotion these days. From the Terence...

With the recent bombings in New York and New Jersey, the nation seems (once again) to be on edge, and the news channels are (once again) analyzing non-stop the ramifications of it all, what should have been done, what could be done, etc. Fear can run rampant within us...

Lots of important things are happening in the world these days, but based on what I'm seeing in social media, perhaps the thing that people are MOST interested in is the return of NFL and college football. Perhaps that causes a mere shrug of the shoulders for many,...

How was your long weekend? Look -- whatever your opinion about labor unions, I think we all appreciate an extra "day off" now and then (though, as with many Birmingham business owners, my "day off" wasn't exactly just burgers and the pool ... we're working hard on...

There are people on social media who are already posting hopeful pictures about "Harvest Time" and "Fall 2016", and I think it might be because this summer has been a really hard one for the nation, and our world. We've had terrorist attacks, Zika, terrible flooding...

A couple things need to be said before I get into the meat of what I'm writing today. Firstly, our thoughts and prayers are with the residents of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast who withstood 7 trillion gallons of rain in just one week, and this disaster is shaping up to...