Have you heard the good news? Its supposed to rain…like h*** this weekend…with the possibility of “changing over.” I hope our weathermen are weatherguessers on this one. I quickly learned from our last “snow storm” (i.e. irrelevant dusting) that the grocery stores go through an apocalyptic supply drainage with the impending doom of “snow.”
Whatever happens….precipitation [...]
I received a phone call this morning from a man in Rocky Point concerned about a phone scam. He says a bill has started showing up in his AT&T bill from a company called USBI. AT&T gives them FREE long distance…but USBI was charging them FOR long distance. Huh?
If you type in USBI into a [...]
First…here is a link to the full report: Red Ink.
Gary Wagner, the report’s co-author told me simply…”there’s an incentive there to issue tickets, apart from public safety.” He said if there wasn’t an incentive…than the relationship depicted by the graph wouldn’t exist.
Wagner said the data came back with 95% certainty.
The average across all counties in North [...]
I’m probably not the only one who feels like being able to afford cable right now seems like a luxury. Affording cable in Wilmington seems to be even more of a luxury…I constantly hear gripes about Time Warner here.
There was an article in the New York Times Magazine about a month ago about Hulu…an online service [...]
Some industries can be considered “recession proof” like health care, education…and funeral homes. I would also have considered the cookie sales for Girl Scouts of America to be another….
Why?
Because no one EVER buys just one box…and no one EVER eats just one cookie. Tag-a-Longs were meant to be eated in series of three….series of five [...]
The looming responsibility of having to do my taxes this weekend is my muse for this entry today. Actually…I LOVE doing my taxes. I really enjoy that return. Now…I realize that I”m getting the return because I am “loaning” the government TOO MUCH money and they are so kindly handing it back. You’d think after [...]
From: Prime Time Money
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From Lucy Crockett
Wilmington Police Department
UPDATE
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 – 11:30 a.m.
This is to confirm that the WPD officer who died early this morning was Officer Richard Matthews, age 28. Officer Matthews was hired in December 2006. He came to us with prior law enforcement experience.
When a reporter gets called in at 2a.m., its inevitable that its very bad news. This morning was no exception. Gavin Johnson reported live this morning from Shipyard Boulevard where an officer careened off the road and hit a tree. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
I was headed to the gym and saw our [...]
Tonight at 11 I have a report on a new technology that can save you $$. It’s called an energy audit. We had one done on our house in New Jersey…where the winters drop below zero and the summers…well they dont get much warmer.
If you’ve ever jacked up the thermostat and
the house never seems to [...]
