Monthly Archives: November 2009

Restaurant Gift Cards Safe For More Than 100 Restaurants In Connecticut

November 23, 2009
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The Connecticut Restaurant Association has followed through with its promise from last year to devise a gift certificate program that will protect consumers. The association and state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced the “One For One Hundred” Gift Certificate Program which allows consumers to purchase a gift certificate valid at more than one hundred...

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Courant Moves Toward Explaining Who Writes What

November 22, 2009
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In a rare positive development, The Hartford Courant is now offering something of an explanation as to who the authors of some of their Sunday pieces might happen to be. Well, sort of. Following criticism here that the newspaper was knowingly running articles without identifying to the readers the authors’ commercial relationship to the...

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Need Extensive Medical/Dental Work? Consider Outsourcing

November 22, 2009
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Are you facing a major medical or dental procedure and are uninsured? There are alternatives to going bankrupt and spending all your nest egg. Consider having your procedure done overseas. One of my relatives needed tons of dental work. It would have cost about $25,000 in Miami, but he got the same work done...

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Under Fire For Revealing Emailer’s Identity

November 22, 2009
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In this new information age, newspapers are having a hard time hanging on to their old business models, and are struggling to hold on to readership and monetize their on-line content. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has obviously not run into this issue, or they wouldn’t be shooting themselves in the foot by getting people...

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