Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary
The Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 100th anniversary on Friday with a three-course dinner and live music at the Fireside Inn & Suites in West Lebanon. Founded in 1916, the Chamber now has 352 members representing about 30 percent of the area’s businesses. About 75 people attended the event, which also featured a talk by Steve Taylor about Lebanon in 1916 and the presentation of a commendation, from New Hampshire...
Ways to Save Money On Groceries This Year
Grocery shopping can take a big bite out of your household budget. In fact, a family of four spends up to an average of $1,300 a month on food at home, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That means families can shell out more than $15,000 a year on groceries. With the right strategies you can cut your grocery spending in half or more. Just ask Kyle Taylor, founder of personal finance blog ThePennyHoarder.com. When he was...
Consumer Confidential: AT&T Stumbles in Helping Customer With $24,000 Phone Bill
It wasn’t what Ron Dorff said. It was how he said it. The 83-year-old wanted to let me know he was having problems with his phone company, AT&T. I get calls like this every day. But Dorff’s desperation was clear. I could hear it in his voice. “It’s the bill,” he explained. “The company says I have to pay it. I can’t pay this bill.” I asked how much it was for. “Twenty-four thousand dollars,” Dorff replied. Clearly something...
Ben Bernanke: Interest Rate Critics Wrong
Washington — Federal Reserve chairs are experts at being boring. They use words like “moderate,” “uncertain,” or “stability” like we use the words “um,” “and,” or “but.” It’s, as former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan put it, a “language of purposeful obfuscation” that drones on so long you forget what was just asked, let alone whether this answered it, just as long as it’s mercifully over. But now that he’s free of the strictures of office,...
