In the job market? What do you really need to know about sending your resume? After spending countless hours getting your resume prepared with excellent content and no spelling or grammatical errors, the last thing you want to think about is a cover letter, right? Wrong! The cover letter is and can be just as [...]
There are plenty of products that will legimately save you energy and/or will make you eligible for a tax break, but there are others that may not meet the government’s guidelines. The PA Attorney General’s Office says: do your homework before buying a product or a service. Check out this link for more information on products [...]
Looking for something fun to do this weekend, without spending a dime? Bank of America’s Museums on Us® Program now offers cardholders free admission to more than 120 museums nationwide the first full weekend of each month through December 4-5, 2010. LOCATIONS: Philadelphia African America Museum in Philadelphia National Constitution Center Pennsylvania Academy of the [...]
Attorney General Tom Corbett is urging PA consumers to shop carefully when considering products or services advertised as being “energy efficient,” and to thoroughly review claims about financial savings or tax benefits related to certain purchases or home improvements. Those who are considering home improvement projects like the replacement of windows and doors, or other [...]
Rendell chose to keep all state employees working during the budget impasse this year, under the condition of no paycheck because the state has been without budgeted appropriations since July 1st. About 77,000 state workers are still unlikely to be paid this week or next, but Rendell said that full paychecks could be coming soon, [...]
Before the House takes their summer recess, they’re taking emergency measures to ensure that people getting unemployment checks or hoping for a low-interest housing loan won’t lose any of those services while Congress is gone. The three part house bill includes bolstering the federal unemployment insurance and highway trust fund as well as increasing lending [...]
The state Liquor Control Board is considering two different initiatives to sell wine at local supermarkets and gourmet food stores in Pennsylvania. Wine kiosks, similar to soda machines but more technologically savvy, could be implemented by the end of the year in up to 100 supermarkets. Here’s how it works: shoppers would have to insert their [...]
The new Cash for Clunker’s program is already getting a lot of mileage- it spurred 19,328 sales yesterday- worth $95.9 million in subsidies. The trade group for US auto dealers is concerned that the government’s $1 billion program will run out of money before the retailers get reimbursed. A Transportation Department Spokesman said they will [...]
Both my producer Alexis and a friend told me to write this because as one of them put it, “people have a much different perception of what your life is like.” For instance, my friend Gita says that people probably think I go out for lunch at a restaurant every day. If you only knew… [...]
For millions of NJ residents, solar power is coming soon to their neighborhoods – even to the utility poles in their backyards. In a move both bold and expensive, state regulators approved a plan for PSE&G to install solar panels on 200,000 utility poles in its service territory- making NJ the nation’s second-most solar fueled [...]
