When I told Barry Boardman that the appliance repairman he let into his house to fix his refrigerator, the one who took his $175 deposit check and never returned, had a criminal record for theft, everything suddenly made sense to him. All summer, he kept calling Michael Stoneham asking for a refund of his...
Her husband always handled their home mortgage payments, so when Beatrice Stevenson finally took a look at the papers, she was shocked to see that her homeowners insurance premium was more than double what it should have been. Her husband had let the insurance lapse, so the loan-servicing company put what’s called force-placed insurance...
Sarah Palin blasted “corporate crony capitalism” in an Iowa September 2011 speech to supporters. Many interpreted this as an attack on Gov. Rick Perry’s pay-to-play political machine. Maybe this is an example of the type of thing Palin is talking about: As first reported in the Wall Street Journal and then Dave Lieber’s Watchdog...
Meet Dale Fout and Brenda Godwin. One weekday in April, they both went to a movie theater in Grapevine, Texas. Sat a row apart. Didn’t know each other. By coincidence, they were born in the same year, two days apart. Both are 54. Fout, a marketing consultant, describes himself as a 220-pound “pretty big...
