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MarksJarvis: Dividend stocks risk a drop as 'fiscal cliff' approaches
The darlings of cautious investors are sitting on the edge of the "fiscal cliff" and feeling twinges of tax anxiety. Much to the surprise of some investors, dividend-paying stocks — sleepy investments like utilities — along with real...
Tags: Mutual Funds, Politics, Realty, Money and Monetary Policy, Real Estate
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MarksJarvis: Investors turn eyes to 'fiscal cliff'
America is marching toward the fiscal cliff, and investors are on alert for the consequences of plunging from the peak. Re-elected President Barack Obama and congressional leaders must decide in the next 54 days whether they are willing to ignore their...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Labor Markets
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Jackie Lacey, for the prosecution
It's a tidy coincidence that Jackie Lacey, newly elected as Los Angeles County's first female and first African American district attorney, is a graduate of the city's Susan Miller Dorsey High School, named for L.A.'s first female schools superintendent....
Tags: Laws, Toys "R" Us, Inc., Politics, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice
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Fire damages home near downtown
Indianapolis firefighters were called to a neighborhood near downtown on reports of a house fire. Dispatchers received the call shortly before 8:30 a.m. Saturday of a fire in the 700 block of North Lexington. When firefighters arrived, heavy fire...
Tags: Fires
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MarksJarvis: Investors singing a new tune in the new year
The stock market has surprised investors with an unusually strong surge, even enticing individuals to throw billions into the stock funds they've feared for years. But is the enthusiasm for stocks due to an economy that is greatly stronger? Actually,...
Tags: Mutual Funds, Federal Reserve, Economy, Business and Finance, Stock Market, Europe
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Dads and diaper makers hug it out
A stay-at-home dad, offended by a television commercial that made dads look like dummies, has used social media — the same cudgel that forced Bank of America to back off last year from plans to hike fees — to get the makers of Huggies...Tags: Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Media Industry, Social Media, Advertising, New Products
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'Book of Mormon' announces day-of-show ticket drawing
The much-anticipated Chicago company of the hit Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" has its first preview performance tonight at the Bank of America Theatre, 18 W. Monroe St. Nic Rouleau and Ben Platt star, along with Stephanie Umoh and James...
Tags: Entertainment Events, The Book of Mormon (musical), Christianity, Religion and Belief, Theater
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Kevin Hunt: $30 For AT&T Operator Assistance?
The Hartford CourantRemember the operator-assisted telephone call? Way before Skype, FaceTime and voice-over-Internet phone systems, people often used an operator for person-to-person, international and third-party calls — even calls made from pay phones. Operator-...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Politics, Banking, Diabetes, Bob Brown
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'Fiscal cliff' deal delivers $64 billion in tax breaks
When President Obama signed the "fiscal cliff" legislation, the middle class wasn't the only group saved from tax hikes. The new law, which rescinded the automatic tax increases and spending cuts that would have gone into effect beginning Jan. 1,...Tags: Tax Credits, Politics, Credit and Debt, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Crime, Law and Justice
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Here's what Obama failed to say during debate
The identifying characteristic of progressives' syndrome, which I believe psychiatrists have been following since the Truman administration, is their defensiveness about their own policies when they're challenged by Big Business and other stalwarts of the...Tags: Paul Ryan, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Solyndra LLC, Tesla Motors, Inc.
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It doesn't have name, but more move into downtown area
I noticed a moving truck outside the old St. Alphonsus parochial school in the west side of downtown Baltimore on Saratoga Street. Someone was moving into an apartment in this Victorian building, once home to a school that made a a valiant attempt to...Tags: 2010 Census, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, Pratt Street, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Rudy Giuliani
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MarksJarvis: Stocks reach pre-recession peak
With the urgency of the "fiscal cliff" behind the nation and the earnings hurdle for companies low, investors have pushed the stock market close to the high that occurred before the financial crisis. The Standard & Poor's 500 closed the week at 1472,...
Tags: Earnings, China, Stock Market, Economy, Business and Finance, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
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