A Polk County judge told Iowa that it will have to give up to $6.5 million to a Canadian film company . Iowa Eye will get the credits for its film "Clean Out," whick is one of 23 films with "recognized" contracts that were put on hold when Iowa's film credit program ground to a halt in scandal ... Read more

Headline in today's Des Moines Register: Could local-option tax give Des Moines metro area a lift? The Des Moines City Manager, Rick Clark , "wants to explore whether a 1-cent sales tax could help reduce property taxes in the capital and complement other fees the city charges to financ ... ... Read more

There's a new roundup of tax blog posts at Robert D. Flach's place. Meanwhile, Kay Bell has a new " Tax Twitter Tuesday " up, with tax tweets from all over. ... Read the full post ... Read more

$50 billion in federal subsidies isn't enough for Government General Motors. Michigan is now throwing in another $2.6 million to keep the world's largest manufacturing zombie from from moving jobs from Downtown Detroit to... "other Detroit-area facilities." GM will happily take the money, but ... Read more

Clusterstock: We've seen this over and over again. "While Americans seem to recognize that there's been this thing called the housing crash, they don't believe it's happened to them, or at least a lot don't. Zillow : However, the third quarter of 2009 is a different story in both marke ... ... Read more

Interesting account of how a firm called Backblaze constructs huge amounts of cloud storage inexpensively . They need to because they offer unlimited, automatic backup over the Internet for just $5/month (per computer and "except your operating system, applications, temporary files, or th ... Read more

Including " What is reality really ? " ( New Scientist , 10/23.) ... Read the full post ... Read more

New Yorkers' favorite apps . " Are iPhone Apps Headed for Oblivion? " ... Read the full post ... Read more

The MeFites discuss a resource they like and offer suggestions. ... Read the full post ... Read more

It’s always important to try and save as much money as you possibly can. One way you can do this is by seeing if you can lower already existing bills. There’s things you can do like using energy saving bulbs, watering your lawn every other day instead of daily or removing premium channels from ... Read more