Summer’s coming to an end and parents and kids are busy with back-to-school shopping. What are the best deals for Labor Day sales? WalletHub, a personal finance website, offers a report “Best Labor Day Deals and Sales” to help shoppers save money. Best deals and sales Treadmills are the best... Read more →
Summer's ending, with Labor Day weekend coming up soon. WalletHub, a personal finance website, offers these facts and figures on Labor Day 2018: Source: WalletHub Read more →
When I went to Safeway on Sunday and looked to maybe buy a brownie for a treat, I found some brookies. They looked like brownies with chocolate chip cookies baked on top. I thought I’d try them. They tasted great. Never having had a brookie before, I looked up a... Read more →
Nine out of 10 parents with kids under the age of three feed their children packaged food at least occasionally, according to a Consumer Reports survey. So Consumer Reports’ analyzed 50 packaged foods from nine brands, including baby cereals, packaged fruits and vegetables, entrées, and snacks, such as cookies, crackers,... Read more →
Tom Sightings of Sightings Over Sixty says he’s in an "in between" spot. Summer’s almost over, but fall hasn’t yet begun. His children and grandchildren are getting ready to go back to school, and he’s preparing to tutor kids and teach a foreign policy course at the senior center. And,... Read more →
A recall of about 350,000 VH101 Personal Vortex electric space heaters is being reannounced. The recall was first announced in April 2018. The electric space heater can overheat when in use, posing fire and burn hazards. In December 2017, a 90-year-old man in Chanhassen, Minnesota, died as a result of... Read more →
A new study finds there’s no safe level of drinking alcohol. The study shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths globally were due to alcohol use, including 12 percent of deaths in males between the ages of 15 and 49. The report was published Thursday in the medical journal... Read more →
On a party-line vote, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee Thursday approved the nomination of Kathleen Kraninger to be director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Kraninger currently works at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, lauds the committee’s Democrats for their rejection... Read more →
Paul Manafort Michael Cohen Photo: Voice of America Photo: IowaPolitics.com If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you know that I’ve written dozens of articles about how the Trump administration is slashing environmental and consumer laws and regulations as fast as it can. To me, yesterday was a great... Read more →
The Trump administration proposed Tuesday to dismantle the Clean Power Plan, the nation’s first limit on climate change emissions from existing fossil-fuel power plants. The plan is the result of efforts by states and cities, in cooperation with the federal government, to require cuts in the emissions of climate change... Read more →