As I’m sure at least some of you realized, this column was absent last week. I apologize, and I promise it’s not because my Week 3 picks were god awful.

The baseball season is over for the Cubs and White Sox. Sadly for one, mercifully for the other.

I feel a little different today. This column, in a rare instance, was prepared late last night. Many times, I am opining while referring to your Saturday morning in the present.

Planning for retirement should really start as soon as you get your first real job, but it should continue through each stage of life.

We are through Week 3 of the NFL season and Week 4 of the college football season.

So many have come up to me concerned about the condition of our nation. My response back to them is “that we need to pray and then vote!”

Meatloaf – again?

We get many questions each week about Social Security, and rightly so; it is a very important element of retirement planning. It is one of the most popular government programs in history. However, it is complicated and there are many strategies to maximize your benefits.

Some things in life are absolutes. Some things in life will never change. I’m starting to think one of those is that the Bears’ offense will never be good.

I was in the grocery store last week and someone said to me “it feels like you are becoming a grumpy old man.”

Pardon my absence last week. While I had, um… concepts of a process… for a column, I basically had no column September 7.

A Roth conversion is a strategic financial move that involves transferring funds from a traditional retirement account — such as a Traditional IRA or 401(k) — into a Roth IRA.

In my last column, I encouraged everyone to remember that we have countless individuals – your neighbors – addressing “ongoing” concerns and desired services for our taxpayers.

Football. FOOTBALL!!!

I am so angry about Notre Dame losing Saturday, but who I blame is probably not who you expect.

The first, and most important reason, is to protect yourself and your family from financial risks.

I would like to thank Grace College and Seminary for the decision to change the name of the facility in Winona Lake back to Rodeheaver Auditorium and Conference Room!

Oh, how good it feels to be back.

The National Football League’s 2024 season begins on Thursday.

Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, bought the team for approximately $140 million in 1989. He said, in an episode of the NFL Network’s A Football Life, that an entrepreneurial type of businessperson must be comfortable with ambiguity.

We are often asked, “What can I do to be a better investor?” There are many simple steps that you can take to improve your investment results.

I haven’t done one of these for a while, and I felt like it was time.

I returned from my company’s North American controller’s conference Thursday night with a takeaway I’ll share this morning.

I am 55, so retirement, which once seemed so far away, is getting closer and closer. Some folks get to this age, and wake up one morning and realize that they are 55 and haven’t saved anything for retirement.

Long before I was a broadcaster, I was a big supporter of women’s sports.