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How the Inflation Reduction Act can help small businesses and all of us
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will lower prescription drug, health care, and energy costs. It will lower the deficit and no one making under $400,000 per year will pay a penny more in taxes. It will also fight climate change. This is a pretty good deal for most of us dealing with our changing climate patterns: scorching temperatures, escalating damaging storms, new monsoon seasons and all the havoc they cause. If we can slow climate change down, we all win.
Man reveals honest opinion about friend’s brother
DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Alex,” and I are close friends with another couple who live out of state. During a virtual happy hour, our friend “Darlene” advised us that her brother “Roy” is moving to our area,
Woman learns truth about fiance after moving in
DEAR ABBY: I’m having a hard time deciding what to do about my engagement to my fiance. We met at our old job. Before we got together, he was with someone else, and while he says he didn’t leave her for me, I am sure I helped.
Revenue and taxation
With a record $9.8 billion budget in a good economic year for the state, the Legislature took steps to attract new businesses to Oklahoma. House Bill 4085 creates the Oklahoma Rural Jobs Act, which provides a tax credit to investors who make capital investments into an eligible rural fund certified by the Dept.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Ads go too far Dear editor, Even in the nation’s most red, Gerrymandered state, candidate for the U.S. Senate, Markwayne Mullin’s ads are ads too far.
Friend shows pattern of flaking out when needed
DEAR ABBY: A childhood friend, “Brenda,” moved away 20 years ago. Even though we were living across the country from each other, we remained close.
Wife keeps bringing up husband’s long affair
DEAR ABBY: I have known my husband my whole life. We have been married 20 years and have three teenage children.
Struggling wife at wits’ end with unhelpful hubby
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been together for 12 years and our relationship has started to suffer. We no longer have dates, we don’t spend any time talking with each other unless it’s about the kids, and the intimacy has faded.
Girlfriend is unimpressed by man’s longtime friends
DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend has been hanging out with a group of “friends” since college. He is now 41. The women in this group are unfriendly toward me. They don’t say hello or goodbye or even acknowledge my existence when I am around them. I have talked to my boyfriend about this time and again, and he defends their behavior. He says I “lack empathy.”