| Boomers' guide to financial freedom
Just yesterday your financial life was all about scrambling to make rent, learning what a 401(k) was and lobbying to get out of the cubicle and into an office. Now you're pushing 45 or 50, you've got a mortgage and college tuition bills, and you're the boss of a crop of ambitious 22-year-olds.
Face it, you've reached middle age. Sure, you have a long road ahead - three or four decades or more. But when it comes to your finances, you're not a kid anymore.
"Back in your twenties, you probably thought turning 50 was far in the future," says Mari Adam, a financial adviser in Boca Raton, Fla. "Guess what? Your future is starting now."
Will that future work out the way you want? Hard to say, but you'd be wise to see how you're doing so far. That means conducting a head-to-toe money checkup that covers everything from investing to insurance.
SNP criticises Alexander’s month of ‘self-imposed silence’
Labour's Holyrood leader Wendy Alexander was accused yesterday of going on a month-long "self-imposed silence" since the Electoral Commission began investigating an illegal donation to her leadership campaign. The SNP's Roseanna Cunningham said that by Friday a full month would have passed without the Labour leader giving any interviews or answering any questions. .
Fenwick: Live Blogging of City Commission
Thanks again for reading. I hope this has helped everyone with keeping track of the discussion of city meetings. You know...The Mercury should hire a blogger to blog city meetings to help the public record....might be a good thing to do! Anyways I am off to bed. Good night! Final Vote 3-2: Yes: Snead, Phillips, and Hatesohl No: Strawn and Sherow Updated 1:55 AM: Phillips: Had to weigh all the risks to the community when making this decision. Our backs are against the wall we don't have many options. I know I am upsetting a lot of people and I have to live with myself that I know what I am doing now will treat those property owners on the south fairly and eliminates risks. Sherows vision has a lot of merit, but his judgment is that the community is not willing or ready to do that.
Merger talk lifts shares of Delta
Delta Air Lines Inc. shares soared more than 18 percent Thursday following renewed speculation that the nation's No. 3 carrier may be close to inking a deal to combine with another airline. Delta rose $2.46 to close at $15.98 on the New York Stock Exchange. The surge followed a nearly 15 percent rise in Delta's stock on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the head of the Atlanta-based company's pilots union said in a letter to rank-and-file members that a combination involving Delta may be close. Lee Moak, chairman of the union's executive committee, said in the letter that "consolidation may indeed be at our door."
JetBlue seeks Orlando-Cancun route
JetBlue Airways said Thursday that it plans to begin flying from Orlando to Cancun, Mexico. Assuming it wins government approval, JetBlue says the daily flights would begin March 13.
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