When you live in a mostly-civilian town as we have for the past five years after living in high-density military areas for the first 30 years of your life, some of the services's nuances fade from memory.

I get a chill whenever I listen to James Brown soulfully sing "It's a Man's Man's Man's World." I especially like to shout "you got that right" when he says, "but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced today the launch of Financial Frontlines, a new website to provide information and resources to help Florida’s 58,000 military servicemembers fight back against financial fraud and debt.

There's one thing for certain about the looming federal spending cuts. Whether or not there's a deal to avert the blanket cuts, things are going to get financially tight for a lot of people who least expect it.

With my 17-year-old daughter headed to college, I tried out the new college scorecard tool launched by the Obama administration following the president's State of the Union address.

For several mornings in a row, I woke to the same conversation coming from the landing outside my bedroom: "Owen, get my back. Get my back!" "Got it. The enemy's on my tail."

Meet Army Major J.T. Edwards and his wife Melissa. The Edwards bought their first home near Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in 2006, just as the housing market in the region showed signs of deteriorating.