Stressed? Try One Of These 10 Little Stress Jobs
If your work has you stressed out you might want to check out this story on CNBC on the least stressful jobs. “If you feel overwhelmed by your job — you’re not alone. Job pressure…
F-150 Pickup Truck Recall Involving 1.2 Million With Potential Major Airbag Issue
Ford Motor and U.S. safety regulators are expanding the recall of the best selling truck in the U.S. and Canada, the Ford F-150 pickup truck. The recall was caused by a possible electrical issue that…
Genital Herpes Study: Can Be Transmitted Easily Even Without Outbreak
For the millions of Americans suffering from genital herpes, the latest study shows that not only do many people don’t know they have it, but its easy for even those to transmit it to their…
U.S. Health Care System Unprepared for Major Nuclear Emergency
By Sheri Fink, Special to ProPublica U.S. officials say the nation’s health system is ill-prepared to cope with a catastrophic release of radiation, despite years of focus on the possibility of a terrorist “dirty bomb”…
Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results
Excerpt from Hope Academy Broadway Campus’s lawsuit against White Hat Management. Inset: Screenshot from a White Hat Management promotional video. by Sharona Coutts ProPublica, April 6, 2011, 10:09 a.m.Since 2008, an Ohio-based company, White Hat Management,…
5 Ways GE Plays the Tax Game
Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) A version of this story was co-publishedwith Fortune. General Electric’s tax department is famous for inventing ways to pay Uncle Sam less. So it should…
NYTimes Latest To Probe Better Business Bureau’s Shady Behavior & Incompetence
The prestigious New York Times has finally discovered that the Better Business Bureau may be more interested in making more money for its executives from business fees than protecting consumers. The influential publication has carried…
Granny Snatching: Narcotic Poisoning – A Bitter Prescription
Police in Saanich, British Columbia, are investigating a narcotic poisoning incident involving an 88-year-old resident of an elder care facility that may provide a classic example of how the elderly in Canada and the United…
LIFE GOES ON: Guilty Girl
GUILT Dear Doctor Kathleen, I am 29 years old and still live at home with my parents. I know this is not normal and would love to get my own apartment. I’ve saved the money…
Granny Snatching: Alzheimer’s vs. Dementia
We hear the words thrown around literally whenever we speak of the elderly, but do we know what they mean? Alzheimer’s and Dementia that is. I took a look at this issue in my book…
Continental Recalls Tires on 2008-2009 Ford F-250/F-350 Trucks
Continental Recalls Tires on 2008-2009 Ford F-250/F-350 Trucks Tread separation could cause a crash, company reports HARTFORD, March 21 – Owners of 2008 and 2009 Ford F-250 and F-350 trucks should watch their mail for…
Granny Snatching: Increasing cases, increasing costs
In the United States an estimated 5.4 million people have Alzheimer’s disease, and a new case develops every 69 seconds – but that number will skyrocket to 16 million by 2050 with a new case…
LIFE GOES ON: From Eeyore to Tigger
FROM EEYORE TO TIGGER DEAR DOCTOR KATHLEEN, I am a worrier. I usually have 3 or 4 problems running through my mind every day. It’s exhausting! Most of the stuff I worry about never even…
Ct Chiropractic Examiners’ Board Members Violated State Law
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…
AstraZeneca Agrees To $68.5 Million Settlement For Improper Serquel Marketing
Ct Attorney General George Jepsen and attorneys general in 36 other states, Thursday announced a record, $68.5 million settlement with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, of Delaware, arising from alleged improper marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel….
Latest Courant Rip-Off Ad: “Rare” Sheets $2 Bills
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.
LIFE GOES ON: Charlie Sheen: The Media Strikes Again
CHARLIE SHEEN – THE MEDIA STRIKES AGAIN Several weeks ago, I wrote a column called “NARCISSISTIC POLITITIANS AND THE MEDIA.” I wrote, “Mental illness is a disease of the brain. It is a PHYSICAL disease…
AT&T Fined $745,000 By Connecticut Utility Regulators
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…
Granny Snatching: Senior Centers Have Depth
Suppose you are caring for an elderly person in your home and you need assistance with some of the day-to-day tasks; where do you turn for help? You could go to the phone book and…
Toyota Recalls 2.17 Million Toyota and Lexus For Accelerator Issues, Even Chinese Upset
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…