| Schreck named Corvallis’ First Citizen
For 30 years, Larson has been a community leader in creating breakthrough programs such as integrated preschool, outpatient mental health and speech therapy. Her Old Mill Center has grown from serving eight families at its inception to more than 1,500 today.Robert C. Ingalls Business Person of the Year: Lyle Hutchens of Devco Engineering. Hutchens was recognized for his reputation for honesty, fairness and integrity in business. He serves as a board member of the Greenbelt Land Trust and other local organizations.Business of the Year: Stover Neyhart & Co., tax and financial consulting service. For 33 years, Stover Neyhart has served small businesses and individuals in the Corvallis area. Partners and staff also volunteer on numerous boards and committees including the Corvallis City Club Steering Committee, OSU Athletic Board, OSU College of Business Dean's Circle of Excellence Advisory Board and Willamette Neighborhood Housing Board.
Financial Q&A: Alternative Minimum Tax changes provide relief for some ...
A.m., washington, d.c. A: The AMT is a tricky piece of tax policy that was begun in order to make sure that fat cats didn't get off entirely tax-free just because of loopholes. But it has ended up collaring quite a few lesser mortals, although even now it applies to fewer than 20 percent of taxpayers. Beth Wiggins, a CPA and partner with BKD LLP's Houston office, says that taxpayers are required to calculate taxes the regular way and then the alternative – or AMT – way. Under the alternative way, adjusted gross income reduced by itemized deductions changes for numerous alternative minimum taxable adjustments and preferences. These adjustments and preferences include portions of Schedule A medical and dental expenses, Schedule A taxes, and Schedule A miscellaneous deductions.
Once Colored by Mike Royko, Chicago Newspapers Now Shaped by Money Men ...
Nor do most Chicagoans wake up anymore to the Chicago Tribune or Chicago Sun-Times with their cornflakes. Or end the day with the Chicago Daily News and a martini in their easy chair. (Who remembers easy chairs? Martinis?) With its tail between its legs, the Tribune Company which own the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, other newspapers, WGN television and the Chicago Cubs, just went private under a $8.2 billion buyout engineered by local real estate tycoon Sam Zell. Bedeviled by a $1 billion tax bill from buying Times Mirror and Los Angeles Times in 2000--it was a taxable sale not a restructuring says the IRS--the Tribune Company is now owned by an S-corp ESOP employee stock ownership plan which makes "selling for parts" difficult in the near future since it pays no corporate taxes.
AfterHours Medical Care Sees Record Number of Patients in 2007
ROCHESTER, NY — Lifetime Health Medical Group's AfterHours Medical Care saw a record number of patients in 2007. A total of 30,602 patients were treated in the Rochester area last year. This is an 8.3 percent increase over the number of patients seen in 2006 (equal to a month's worth of patients) and 5.7 percent more patients than AfterHours' prior best year ever (2005). The pace continues so far this month. AfterHours provides urgent care after traditional office hours—offering an alternative to waiting in overcrowded hospital emergency rooms. Since the service began in 1998, more than a quarter of a million patients have been seen in the Rochester and Buffalo regions. According to Richard A. Dudrak, II M.D., medical director of AfterHours Medical Care for Lifetime Health Medical Group for the Rochester region, the increase in patients seen by AfterHours stems in part from the service's appointment-based structure.
Handling Pesticides Associated With Greater Asthma Risk In Farm Women
"Farm women are an understudied occupational group," said Jane Hoppin, Sc.D., of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and lead author of the study. "More than half the women in our study applied pesticides, but there is very little known about the risks." The researchers assessed pesticide and other occupational exposures as risk factors for adult-onset asthma in more than 25,000 farmwomen in North Carolina and Iowa. They used self-reports of doctor-diagnosed adult asthma, and divided the women into groups of allergic (atopic) or non-allergic (non-atopic) asthma based on a history of eczema and/or hay fever. .
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