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John Grindrod: Simple lessons, deeper meanings when navigating life’s stairways

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Experience has, or at least it should have, taught us some lessons along the way. One, I’ve learned when advancing toward the next landing while going up the stairs, it’s a lot less painful to fall up the stairs than it is to fall down them. While the misstep that caused the fall is pretty much the same, the extra pain of falling backward when we fail to grasp fully the importance of decreasing hastiness and increasing caution has to do with the direction we fall. Falling up the stairs merely momentarily stops us; it doesn’t place us farther away from our next landing.

Legal-Ease: Why is my estate plan different from my neighbors?

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Some of the most important and universally useful documents that attorneys prepare are wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living wills. These documents are often called estate planning documents or advance directives (as for the powers of attorney and living wills).

Reghan Winkler: Back-to-school scams

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Bam! Just like that, it’s back-to-school time again. Elementary school, high school or college, it doesn’t matter; it’s a hectic time preparing for the kids’ return to the classroom.

Noah Feldman: Three major takeaways from the FBI search on Trump’s home

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Based on what we know, there are three major legal takeaways from the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Florida home on Monday.

Jenn Richey Nicholas: An update to James Carville’s 1992 campaign advice

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“It’s the economy, stupid.”

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Things looking up for Biden?

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Bob Strauss, the venerable Dallas lawyer-lobbyist and longtime Democratic Party leader, used to say that, in politics, things are never as good as they seem or as bad as they seem.

Holy Cow! History: The woman who made the president’s mealtime miserable

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Imagine a formal White House meal. Glistening silver, glittering china, gleaming crystal. And the food! The chow there is good.

Paul Steidler: Put the kibosh on porch piracy

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America’s crime wave is coming to your front door if it has not hit there already.

Maha Zehery: Why Lima is a great place

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Dear Lima Beans, among the years, I have lived — and enjoyed living — in many different big cities worldwide.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Dare we hope?

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“Dare we hope?”