Travis R. Martin, CPA

With the ubiquitous white Great Value packages gobbling up shelf-space from national name brands from the likes of Kraft and Smucker’s, some brand-conscious shoppers have begun to turn their back on the world’s largest retailer

If the student-athletes at your school are playing in front of more empty seats than filled ones, maybe it is time to get creative.

Nearly everything I was seeing in the Minor League Ballparks – the wacky promotions, the entertaining mascots, and the carnival-like atmospheres – could easily be applied to high school athletics. Here’s how.

In professional sports you have big market teams and small market teams. And then you have the Beloit Snappers, a Class A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, who play in a market so small, it almost warrants classification as a micro-market. Indeed, if there were a baseball franchise version of life-support, the Snappers would be on it.

If your overqualification is quickly becoming desperation, you may be tempted to put the dumb treatment to your resume. Follow these five tips and you will be on your way back down the career ladder in no time.

21st Century Breakdown has essentially been kicked out of the biggest music retailer in the country, and all Green Day can do is say “no, sorry, we won’t make you another record.”

Come on. That’s so NOT rock-n-roll. Green Day is supposed to be the voice of a misguided, disgruntled generation.

The Summer of 2009 is shaping up to be a bizzaro version of 2007, especially when it comes to the US auto industry.

Mikey is part of a growing number of children being targeted by the IRS for failure to pay taxes on the toy prizes found in their cereal boxes.

KFC may do chicken right, but free chicken? That’s another story. On Friday, KFC issued an apology and a raincheck to angry “customers” who were turned away during a recent promotion for the chain’s new Kentucky Grilled Chicken. The promotion, designed to be the centerpiece of the Grilled Chicken product launch, was fairly straight forward: [...]

What is big and bulky, useless after six months, and costs about $150? Your average college textbook, of course (although the Ford Festiva I drove in college also fits that description). Thanks to e-commerce titan Amazon.com, the textbooks of tomorrow may continue to cost an arm and a leg, but they won’t otherwise physically impair [...]