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“I don’t know how many of you have a day job,” says Chubby Wombat, leaning into the microphone between songs. “But I do, and [...]
As I write, it’s already been three weeks since the Academy Awards broadcast on March 7, and I’m still surprised that the judges for Hollywood’s annual ceremony of self-love named The Hurt Locker Best Picture of 2009, awarding it six Oscars in all. The pooh-bahs of mediocrity voted for art rather than commerce, and [...]
Ibrey Woodall
Business Wire’s Director of Client Development, Ibrey Woodall, has an article in today’s Bulldog Reporter IR Alert, “Are You Ready for 3G IR? Investor Relations Should Heed the Momentum of Mobile.” With the explosive growth of the mobile internet, financial and investor information joins the other types of content that needs to be prepared for [...]
Air Force major Richard Hallbeck and his wife Laurie, Long Beach, Calif.
By Lisa Gibbs, senior writerMay 5, 2010: 4:28 AM ET
(Money Magazine) — A transfer in 2005 landed Air Force major Richard Hallbeck, his wife, and two kids in Southern California smack in the middle of the real estate bubble. Home [...]
By Bankrate.com
When you’re drowning in debt and dodging creditors, a debt settlement plan with one low monthly payment to a single creditor sounds like a dream solution. But some debts won’t go into that settlement bucket.
Here are some of those debts and what you can do about them.
Utility bills: Are you [...]
April 30, 2010, 2:19 PM EDT
(Adds Obama comments in second paragraph. See {EXT4 <GO>} for more on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.)
By Jessica Resnick-Ault and Jim Polson
April 30 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Interior Department inspectors began boarding deep-water platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and [...]
Major demonstrations are to be held in 70 cities on May 1 to protest the new Arizona law to cope with an army of half a million illegal aliens now living there.
Since Gov. Jan Brewer signed that law a week ago, Arizona has been subjected to savage attack as the modern embodiment of Jim Crow, [...]
By Bill Fleckenstein
Goldman Sachs. John Paulson. Those are hot-button words that have dominated business news lately, with many of the reports biased toward a black-and-white supposition: guilty.
This column, however, wouldn’t live up to its name if it didn’t take a contrarian view. Not surprisingly, I’m going to discuss the Goldman/Paulson [...]
On April 13, Business Florida hosted a media breakfast that brought together panelists from all sides of the “press release spectrum”: a traditional journalist, a blogger, an SEO expert & a multimedia business reporter.
The audience remained engaged as our moderator, Business Wire Executive Vice President of Media Services & Product Strategy Laura Sturaitis, asked the [...]
By Kate Ashford
Robert And Sharon Nelson have no trouble saving. They’re setting aside nearly 14% of their income for retirement and have amassed more than $250,000 overall. And since Robert is an instructor at Penn State, the couple’s 4-year-old daughter, Olivia, is nearly set for college — the school will pay 75% of her tuition [...]
