…would anticipate and wait for the next tax holiday. As it happened, there was an extraordinary level of response to the tax holiday, more than experts or revenue estimators had…

…little penance to go alongside our pumpkin pie this year. Can you permit me a note of preachy-ness? What makes the commodification of our holidays, and this holiday called Thanksgiving…

…wealthy and corporations, fulfilling corporate lobbyists wish lists that had been circulating for 20 years, including creating a ‘tax holiday’ for corporations to repatriate untaxed profits that they had offshored…

…through the year, which occurs for various reasons, such as national holidays (a good time for a vacation) and the Christmas holiday (when volumes surge). The Commission wanted to see…

…a pre-Soviet holiday that celebrated a victory of the Poles and Lithuanians in 1612. But May Day was also dropped as a holiday, although people still basically take off work…

Juneteenth became a federal holiday on June 17, 2021. President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. When Melynda Price thinks of Juneteenth, she thinks of…

…to the cause. In November and December, seventeen state governors declared state thanksgiving holidays. New York governor Edwin Morgan’s widely reprinted proclamation about the holiday reflected that the previous year…

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from all the Bears…

…and it’s a world of dread and fear. May it stay outside your window next year and beyond….

Ken Houghton We’re off for two weeks in a foreign country, and internet access may be limited in the Great State of New Jersey, so—just in case in can’t find…