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Works by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Dyani White Hawk, Emily Sargent, and ​​Hisako Hibi are among the 300 pieces joining the museum’s collection.

Friday July 16  Politics: A Love Story with Bob Bushansky  9am What topic could possibly include the ancient Summarians from 2300 BCE, Cleopatra, and Vlad the Impaler? Why taxes of course! On Politics: A Love Story Bob Bushansky will be speaking to Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod about their new book Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue — Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages. They do include the 3 topics mentioned above and much more. Tune in to Politics: A Love Story at 9 A M on Friday right ...

Saturday July 17 Trading Time 11am The Trading Time Show is a live community swap-shop every Saturday from 11 to noon. Call the KZYX Philo studio with up to 5 items to sell, give away, or that you are requesting. Or you can send an email to DJ@kzyx.org and hosts Doug and Renee will read it on the air. Tune in and call-in to hear whats available in your community, or maybe even help someone find what they are looking for. Trading Time, every Saturday at 11, right here on KZYX and Z.    

The Staples-based health care provider received funding to help build a handicap-accessible crosswalk and paved walkways.

Taxation Tales and the Window Tax Taxation Tales and the Window Tax H.L. Mencken once wrote: "Taxation . . . is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories." Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages.  For those (including economics instructors) looking to replenish and refresh their dusty anecdo...

Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod Michael Keen is deputy director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund. Joel Slemrod is a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, where he is also Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor at the Ross School of Business. Both have been awarded the National Tax Association’s Daniel M. Holland Medal for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study and practice of pu...