Almost exactly 50 years ago this week, I got the first big shock of my more-or-less adult life. I was handed my very first paycheck … and it wasn’t all there. I’ll bet you remember that moment, too. You’d put in your time for some agreed-upon sum — for me, a buck-something an hour — and multiplied your reward out …
“Orv, are you still fuming about not being invited to perform at the inauguration?” asks Stan. “You can still do that thing, right? Very entertaining, as I don’t recall. Was it a card trick? Was it an egg yoke? Hee hee.”” “I told you to shut up,” grouses Orville. “I’m busy drinking and thinking.” “That was three minutes ago, if …
Express Scripts is the Medicare provider for the North Dakota retiree program. It’s a great company, and the state’s program is excellent. Sometimes, because of the size of companies like Express Scripts, the little guy has to take it in the shorts. But they don’t have to like it. In late December 2016, just before Christmas, I and other participants …