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 179.0 Go big for discounts
Coupon Queen, Jill Cataldo In the past couple of months, I ve shared some of the best and most exciting Super-Couponing secrets with you. This week, I have another. Like some of my previous tips, this one may challenge your assumptions about getting ...
3.9K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 231.0 Coupon Queen Oct. 27
In the past couple of months, I ve shared some of the best and most exciting Super-Couponing secrets with you. This week, I have another. Like some of my previous tips, this one may challenge your assumptions about getting the best possible price whe...
3.9K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 231.0 Xerox to buy ACS for $6.4 billion
NEW YORK (AP) Xerox Corp. has agreed to buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc. or ACS for about $6.4 billion in cash and stock in a deal. It will boost the size of Xerox s services business and take it another step away from its roots as a ...
1.4K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 179.0 Eugene firm launching electric vehicle
Tim Christie, The (Eugene) Register-Guard EUGENE Tucked away in a nondescript garage off an unpaved alley in Eugene s Whiteaker neighborhood, a group of young entrepreneurs is trying to catch the next wave of human transport by building an affordab...
6.1K - Sep. 22, 2009; scored 231.0 Coupon Queen Sept. 15
In previous columns, I ve stressed the need to hold on to all of the coupon inserts we receive each week in the newspaper. The biggest mistake that casual coupon users make is to cut out the coupons for the items they think they ll buy and then tos...
4.0K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 231.0 Jordan soars into basketball Hall of Fame
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Michael Jordan s thank-you list went well beyond friends and family. There was the coach who cut him. The player who dissed him. The media who doubted him. Anyone who ever provided Jordan with motivation to become a better player...
5.7K - Sep. 12, 2009; scored 179.0 Public busing adds extra route as demand increases
Coos County Area Transit has partnered with the Coquille Indian Tribe to almost double its public bus stops. The growing demand has way outstripped our ability to provide services, transit manager Bruce Bennett said. We needed to expand. CCAT, a no...
2.4K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 179.0 Coupon Queen Aug. 25
Last week I introduced you to some of the fun ways shoppers can make Buy one, get one free (BOGO) sales even more rewarding. Anytime we can buy one item and get another free, we re essentially buying two at half price each. So how do we make a half...
3.2K - Aug. 25, 2009; scored 359.0 Lottery may cut commissions it pays to taverns
PORTLAND (AP) With overall lottery revenue declining, Oregon Lottery officials are opening debate on whether to cut more deeply into the video gambling commissions paid to bars and taverns that host the machines. Last year, the lottery paid out abo...
3.2K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 179.0 Study shows Americans spend $34B on alternatives
ATLANTA Americans spend more than a 10th of their out-of-pocket health care dollars on alternative medicine, according to the first national estimate of such spending in more than a decade. Chiropractors, massage therapists, acupuncturists and herb...
6.0K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 231.0 Mail: Husband questions her grocery stockpiling
It s time again to answer some questions from readers like you who are learning to be Super-Couponers: Q: I have been following your method for about a month now and I m having a lot of fun with this! But I am having trouble getting my husband to un...
4.2K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 231.0 Coupon Queen for July 21
Last week, I mentioned that pairing dollar coupons with dollar sales at the grocery store are one of my favorite ways to get items for free. Another easy way? Double-coupon days. Coupon doubling occurs when a store matches a coupon's face value and...
4.2K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 554.0 Cost cutting pays off for Ford in second quarter
DEARBORN, Mich. Helped by a lightened debt load, Ford Motor Co. posted a surprise second-quarter profit of $2.8 billion today, following the worst loss in company history a year earlier. Shares rose 10 percent. The net profit ends a string...
4.4K - Jul. 23, 2009; scored 296.0 Vivian and the play readers
BANDON In the western boroughs of Ireland in 1965, 50 cents would buy the service of the town crier. He d ring his bell and cry the play about to start in the parish house at the Catholic church. The price of a pack of cigarettes, 35 cents, would b...
3.1K - Jul. 9, 2009; scored 231.0 Vivian and the play readers
BANDON In the western boroughs of Ireland in 1965, 50 cents would buy the service of the town crier. He d ring his bell and cry the play about to start in the parish house at the Catholic church. The price of a pack of cigarettes, 35 cents, would b...
2.8K - Jul. 4, 2009; scored 231.0 State's winners and losers
Some of the major bills approved by the 2009 Oregon Legislature: JOBS With Oregon's unemployment rate second highest in the nation, Democratic legislative leaders used state bonds and raised taxes to put thousands of people to work on public works pr...
4.8K - Jun. 30, 2009; scored 179.0 An ounce of prevention ... Is it worth a pound of dollars or good health?
CHICAGO - When it comes to health care spending, an ounce of prevention is seldom worth a pound of cure. Take Mrs. Jones, a hypothetical 55-year-old obese woman at risk for diabetes. It costs $900 a year to hire a personal lifestyle coach t...
6.0K - Jun. 29, 2009; scored 348.0 Electricians union approves freeze in wages
Local electricians, facing a shortage of work on the South Coast, will forgo a scheduled pay raise next week. Members of the Local 932 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union voted unanimously to surrender a 50 cent wage increase...
3.5K - Jun. 26, 2009; scored 179.0 House eyes tax on soda cans to fund health care
WASHINGTON (AP) - Early work on the ambitious health care overhaul the Obama administration is seeking has exposed the kinds of in-house fights that typify just how hard it will be to get meaningful legislation this year. Case in point: A proposal to...
4.4K - Jun. 19, 2009; scored 231.0 | 
