The state Department of Public Health has found three members of its own Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the panel charged with regulating and disciplining chiropractors in Connecticut, in violation of a state law intended to…
Just moments before I was set to write about the latest rip-off – full page ad in today’s Hartford Courant about the Rare sheets of $2 bills that have “sold at prestigious action houses for thousands of dollars,” I received an email from a Middletown reader about the ad.
The reader, James McAuliffe, said he called the telephone in the ad quickly confirmed his suspicion that it was a ripoff designed to benefit only the “World Reserve Monetary Exchange,” which has many other inflated priced items, and the newspapers that carry these highly profitable ads.
$2 bills ad from eBay
“My operator, Crystal, started asking me my name state and zip code to ensure that I “qualified” (what a joke!). Then she asked my address. At this time I stopped providing information an asked her how many $2 bill I would get for $48. The answer is 4. So, $48 gets you $8. Pretty good return for this scam,” he wrote me.
AT&T – the subject of hundreds of complaints from Connecticut residents – was fined $745,000 Wednesday by state public utility regulators for failing to meet service quality standards. The standard requires the company to make…
Toyota Motor Corp. said today is recalling 2.17 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles sold in the U.S. for carpet and floor mat flaws that could interfere with the gas pedal. Wednesday it recalled 1.28 other…
DEAR DOCTOR KATHLEEN, I am so worried about my son. He is 18 and will graduate from high school this year, and he should be applying to colleges. No matter what I say, he refuses…
“Nationally, when a patient shows up at a hospital for medical imaging for a chest or abdominal malady, the chances that he or she will need a “combination” CT scan, which entails an excess radiation…
“If misery actually loves company, then Connecticut must have a very special bond with Georgia and Indiana. Those two states, with far different cultures than ours, are the last to stand with us in banning…
Acting Insurance Commissioner Barbara C. Spear today said the Department is saddened to learn of the passing of former Insurance Commissioner Joseph Mike, who died Tuesday at his home in Bristol. He was 64. He…
Toyota, which has taken a beating over the past year for failure to act promptly on crucial safety defects, was cleared today of serious accusations that there might be a link between electronic throttles and…
Smart Money has a great story about the “10 things outlet malls won’t tell you.” For anyone who thinks they are consistently getting great bargains, you might want to read the full story. Turns out…
A pair of online news entrepreneurs have launched the Independent Media Network — an online venture designed to provide advertising revenue while also fostering content sharing and growth among locally owned news and commentary websites…
by Paul Kiel and Olga Pierce Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Before he took office, President Obama repeatedly promised voters and Democrats in Congress that he’d fight for changes to bankruptcy…
A major break has occurred in the New London probate case of the late Mary Gennotti, as the Connecticut Attorney General’s office has asked for three investigations. The request came after the lawyer representing her…
“Four LabXpress facilities have been ordered closed and the owners fined for operating without a state-issued license,” according to Connecticut Health I-Team. Operations in New Britain, Manchester, Wethersfield and West Hartford were ordered closed by…
Acting Insurance Commissioner Barbara C. Spear today announced that state regulators have fined two Wisconsin-based companies nearly $400,000 for a series of violations uncovered during follow-up examinations of business practices related to certain individual and…
by Robin Fields ProPublica, Dec. 28, 2010, 9:36 a.m. Valerie Prenkert is haunted each time she thinks of the small Northern California clinic where her mother got dialysis. At the start of a treatment on…
An antelope passes by a natural gas drilling rig south of Pinedale, Wyo. (Douglas C. Pizac/AP file photo) by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, Jan. 25, 2011, 8:34 a.m. The United States is poised to bet its…
by Marian Wang ProPublica, Jan. 13, 2011, 3:14 p.m. Photo by Andrew Magill [1] We’ve reported extensively on the ties between pharmaceutical companies and the physicians they fund to speak, consult and do research [2]….
The Better Business Bureau really knows how to lose credibility. For two years the Connecticut BBB chapter had given Aiello Plumbing of Windsor Locks, Ct., an A rating despite numerous complaints to the BBB as…
One should not jump to conclusions on why a newspaper decides to publish or not publish a particular story. However, some of you might find it interesting that after all that happened with Aiello Plumbing…