Scott McNutt's Snark Bites: Operation Silk Purse from Sow's Ear: Council explores ways to make pension plan sexier

Source: KnoxNews

Knoxville City Council has chosen the nips and tucks for the employee pension plan face-lift, and council members are considering other ways to make the plan "sexier" to attract the public's attention. Ideas in ...
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'Too early to quit'

Source: The Daily Advertiser

As the investigation into the disappearance of Michaela "Mickey" Shunick enters its second week, police and volunteers aren't giving up hope that the missing bicyclist whose case has generated unprecedented c ...
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Randy McClain: Banker offers credit do's, don'ts for college kids

Source: The Tennessean

Rob McNeilly, president of SunTrust Bank for the Nashville area, is a banker but also a father. He has seen three of his children go off to college and succeed. Oh, to be sure, two have graduated and a thir ...
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Memorial Day: He lost son, found strength for others

Source: The Orange County Register

BREA – Just a folded scrap of paper tucked in a wallet. But it's so much more. It's a reminder of how to live for Gary Brattain, whose son was killed in Iraq. Brattain remembers their last dinner, their last hug and last farewell before Pfc. Joel B ...
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California tourists robbed at gunpoint in Falls

Source: Niagara Falls Gazette

NIAGARA FALLS — Falls police are investigating a report of armed robbery from a parking lot in the 100 block of Niagara Street Saturday. Police said two California women, staying at a Main Street hotel, were at their vehicles at 12:10 a.m. when they we ...
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Recession generation has adulthood on hold

Source: GoErie.com

MINNEAPOLIS -- Alyssa Kjellberg still can't believe it. Two years beyond college, her career path has led only to jobs at a greenhouse, a hotel front desk, an aunt's office and a seasonal landscaping company -- all payin ...
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Smart Ideas: Dieting on a dime

Source: Reading Eagle

Summer is coming and with that comes the latest wave of new fad diets to the hit the market. You may have seen the newly released USDA study showing that healthy foods don't cost more than junk food, but for many of us, t ...
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When all else fails, rob the poor

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

May 27, 2012 12:30 am Share with others: By Barbara Ehrenreich Individually, the poor are not all that tempting to thieves. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you'll be lucky to get bus fare to fle ...
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D-backs open wallet for Montero

Source: MLB.com

That's exactly what the D-backs did on Saturday by locking up All-Star catcher Miguel Montero through his first five years of free agency at $60 million, the most money handed out to a player in the short 15-year hist ...
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