There is a lot to account for when choosing a bookkeeping program
Arlene Soto There are hundreds of accounting systems available. Sure, they range from simple to complex, manual to computerized, and inexpensive to thousands of dollars, but don t let it scare you. You can choose a good system for your business, if y...
 3.2K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 699.0 Will cook for food
NORTH BEND Some cooks would find it difficult to make a meal with $8 worth of ingredients. Stretch that sum weekly between 25 culinary students, and the menu sounds meager at best. Culinary teacher Mary Willson says that s the difficult realit...
4.7K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 720.0 Gas prices chugging up for the holidays
NEW YORK (AP) Americans are paying more for gasoline than they did last year as the holidays approached billions of dollars that could go to books, clothes and Barbie dolls instead being spent at the pump. Gas averaged nearly $2.70 a gallon ...
3.8K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 665.0 Check library for recommended books
It s no surprise that public libraries are as strapped for cash as everyone else. That doesn t mean, however, that your local library isn t purchasing new children s books. Many of the books you ll find in this column listed as Books to Buy may als...
4.5K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 983.0 Gas purchase buys suspect a trip to jail
Coos Bay police arrested a Coos Bay man Thursday on charges he used a stolen credit card to buy fuel. Officers received a call Monday from Artic Ice, 925 N. Front St., reporting fuel theft. Police interviewed a suspect Thursday at the police station ...
0.7K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 419.0 Let books be large, in charge
My library has a gargantuan large-print book collection. Here s my question. Why aren t all books large-print? Guess who has got the best eyesight in the world? Children. The library has a huge children s section. And guess what children s books ar...
3.3K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 944.0 Not too scary books for Halloween
Kendal Rautzhan, columnist Few children are aware that the roots of Halloween began over 2,000 years ago as a Celtic festival of the dead at the onset of winter. The originators of Halloween offered gifts of wine and food for the souls of their ances...
4.4K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 771.0 The food metamorphosis
PORTLAND To see the new face of grocery shopping, look around your neighborhood. Spot the dude toting a cooler to a porch or parking lot near you, and follow him. When he leaves, sneak a peek inside chances are you won t find cold beers, but you ...
6.8K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 855.0 Health models do work
It s amazing deliberations over U.S. health care reform involve next to no discussion of health plans in other industrialized countries, where everybody is covered, costs are lower and health outcomes are better. Advocates rarely cite the success of ...
3.0K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 504.0 Oregon Outdoor Report: Umpqua River kicks off first derby of season
Chinook salmon fishing has remained strong in all local rivers. We are just starting to see a better catch inside the jetties in Winchester Bay and mooching on the bar at Charleston has also picked up. The large number of jacks has been the topic of ...
4.1K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 563.0 Cable channel shift reflects Disney s boy trouble
BURBANK, Calif. A funny thing happened on the way to remaking the Toon Disney channel into one that catered to tween boys: It got a lot more popular with girls. Perhaps it s because teenagers Hutch Dano and Adam Hicks, the stars of the channel s ...
6.4K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 648.0 Business stacks up
Nate Traylor Staff Writer NORTH BEND Coos Bay Area Habitat for Humanity is reaping rewards for relocating its retail operation. ReStore, a used-building supply store, has doubled its inventory since setting up shop on Broadway Avenue earlier this...
4.3K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 584.0 Getting back to basics
With households watching every penny, a growing number of Americans are ditching their takeout menus and heading into the kitchen to cook dinner at home. The trouble is, many don t know how. We have forgotten how to cook, says author Mollie Katzen, ...
6.1K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 910.0 Brooklyn man accused of buying and selling kidneys
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn called himself a matchmaker, but his business wasn't romance. Instead, authorities say, he brokered the sale of black-market kidneys, buying organs from vulnerable people from Israel for ...
7.1K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 699.0 Island of sin?
MANAMA, Bahrain This tiny Gulf island nation is sick of its reputation as a seedy off-shore Las Vegas and a hotspot of sin for Saudis, so it's starting to rein in the booze. Already it's flooded with Saudis looking for tamer fare they can't get at ...
5.2K - Jul. 21, 2009; scored 656.0 Regulators shut banks in Calif., Ga. and SD
WASHINGTON (AP) Regulators on Friday shut two banks in California and two smaller banks in Georgia and South Dakota, boosting to 57 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed receiver ...
5.3K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 656.0 NBA free agency starts with air of uncertainty
Some big names will be out there. The big spenders will be harder to find. Free agency opens in the NBA today, but there should be few fireworks this July. The blockbuster trades were last week, and the real free agent bonanza is next year. Financial...
4.0K - Jul. 1, 2009; scored 665.0 Jackson music sells out quickly
NEW YORK (AP) Michael Jackson s death has led to skyrocketing sales of his music and videos, with major retailers selling out of products that have regained immense popularity over-night. Bill Carr, Amazon.com Inc. s vice president for music and ...
4.4K - Jun. 27, 2009; scored 622.0 Stocks and the single girl
In the late 70s, it was hard to pick up a magazine that didn t have a story about testing your sexual IQ - or your boyfriend s. And for a while it seemed that one best-selling book after another was a sexual textbook. The Hite Report and Masters a...
3.2K - Jun. 24, 2009; scored 733.0 Sports Briefs: Reinsdorf will make bid to buy Phoenix Coyotes
PHOENIX Chicago Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf has promised to make an offer by Friday to buy the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes and keep the team in Arizona. Reinsdorf s attorney Alan Klein said his client is in the midst of conversations wit...
5.3K - Jun. 23, 2009; scored 665.0 | 
