Building Permits
      3420 Cline Drive, Thomas and Monica Sedillo, owners, new home, $213,896. Tilson Home Corp. dba Tilson Custom Homes Inc. of Houston, contractor. Nov. 14. 517 Correll, Gonzalo Aleman, owner, storage shed, $2,200. Nov. 7. 1400 U.S. 59, Gulf Coast Medical Center, owner, install fire suppression syst...
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Finishing touches
     Staff Photo by Benjamin Sharp Travis Hill, left, and Philip Mallett cover metal poles with primer in front of the new Dollar General store which is currently under construction on Alabama Road. The pair, with Reeves Development of Lake Charles, La., was at the site on Thursday as a "top out" crew, p...
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Failure to keep financial resolutions can seriously impact retirement goals
      If you make a New Year's resolution, and you don't follow through on it, what are the consequences? It all depends. If you vow to learn French, but you never get past "Oui, mademoiselle," your life will probably go on pretty much as before (unless, of course, you're now living in France).
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IRS updates systems in preparation for tax season
      The Internal Revenue Service has announced it will immediately begin the final reprogramming steps for its income-tax processing systems to prepare for the upcoming tax season following final passage of the Alternative Minimum Tax "patch" this month by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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