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IRS offers cybersecurity steps to protect tax data

The Internal Revenue Service encourages taxpayers to take simple steps to strengthen online security during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which highlights the role everyone can play in protecting personal, financial and tax information from identity thieves and scammers. “Criminals continue to look for new ways to steal taxpayer information and exploit trusted partnerships,” IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank J. Bisignano said in a news release. “Taxpayers and tax professionals can help protect sensitive information and strengthen the security of the tax system by making ...

Trump attempt to muzzle press an attack on First Amendment

Pressed recently on President Donald Trump’s expulsion of three news organizations from the White House, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., shrugged it off as indistinguishable from Trump's own past suspension from social media platforms, saying, “So it goes both ways.” Huh? The senator is either remarkably ignorant of the Constitution from which he derives his power, or shameless enough to pretend to be. What Barrasso didn’t appear to understand is that the First Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, doesn’t go both ways: It protects us from the government, not vice ...

UPPCO customers shouldn’t have to shoulder rate hike

Just too much. That’s our position on the Upper Peninsula Power Co. asking its customers for a $17.3 million rate increase, when people and families have already been pushed to the limit by skyrocketing grocery bills and gasoline costs that are closing in on $5 per gallon Added up, that’s why the Michigan Public Service Commission, the state regulatory agency that has the final say on electrical raters, should reject UPPCO’s rate request as submitted, a proposed hike that would produce an average 15.6% increase for residential customers. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and ...