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Shop around for deals on prescription drugs
If your insurance has ever stopped covering a prescription drug or you don’t have coverage at all, you know how quickly costs can mount. Americans spent, on average, $758 out of pocket for medication in 2012, according to a recent Consumer Reports...Tags: Plavix (drug), Pharmaceuticals, Lipitor (drug), Lexapro (drug), Clopidogrel (drug)
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Washington County Public Schools meal prices going up 10 cents
julieg@herald-mail.comMeal prices for Washington County Public Schools’ students and staff will increase for the third consecutive year, due mainly to cost increases such as food and paper supplies, Food and Nutrition Services Supervisor Jeff Proulx said. The Board...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Congress, Students, Nutrition, Public Schools
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Larry Wellborn: Scaling back on postal services
The Postal Service has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. The Postal Service has lost billions of dollars while losing market share to electronic forms of communication. But this is not entirely the fault of the Post Office or the...Tags: Politics, Mail Order Industry, Consumers, Interior Policy, Patrick R. Donahoe
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Jonathan Lesser: Measuring the full cost of Md.'s wind farm subsidy
With the approval of Maryland’s legislature, Gov. Martin O’Malley will soon sign into law new state subsidies to lure power companies to build windmill generators off the coast of Ocean City. The legislation will raise electricity bills, but...Tags: Politics, Solar Energy, Companies and Corporations, Environmental Issues, Economy, Business and Finance
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Tom Firey: Four decades of slowly making people rich
Forty years ago this month, Americans received a powerful tool for increasing their wealth when Princeton economist Burton Malkiel’s book “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” first appeared in stores. Instead of offering esoteric...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Real Estate Buyers, Stock Market, Finance
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O'Malley calls for new sales tax on gas to fund backlog of transportation projects
Associated PressMaryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Monday called for establishing a new sales tax on gasoline and enacting other measures to raise hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fund a backlog of transportation projects. O’Malley, a Democrat,...Tags: Politics, Government, Consumers, Bob McDonnell, Public Transportation
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With no farm bill, Maryland dairy farmers lose safety net
Capital News Service“You can’t turn these cows on and off,” said Bill Kilby, whose family has owned a dairy farm in Cecil County, Md., since 1961. “You cannot stop feeding the cows, you’ve got to take care of them.” That’s the...Tags: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Politics, Natural Disasters, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Cecil County
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Flood insurance rate increases to go into effect on nonprimary residences in Berkeley County
matthewu@herald-mail.comRate increases of 25 percent per year for government-subsidized flood insurance premiums for certain nonprimary residences have been set in motion. The rate increases, which started Jan. 1, will continue each year until they reflect full-risk rates,...Tags: FEMA, Mike Thompson
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Last ditch effort to avoid fiscal cliff under way
Associated PressThe end game at hand, the White House and Senate leaders made a final stab at compromise Friday night to prevent middle-class tax increases from taking effect at the turn of the new year and possibly block sweeping spending cuts as well. “I’...Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Fiscal Cliff, John Boehner, Harry Reid
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Franklin County leaders tie salaries to price index
waynesboro@herald-mail.comThe Franklin County (Pa.) Commissioners on Thursday set salaries for themselves, seven other high-ranking elected officials and 20 tax collectors for the next several years. Starting in 2014, pay adjustments will be tied to the Consumer Price Index in...Tags: Politics, Market and Exchange, Public Officials, Economic Indicator, Consumer Confidence
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Letters to the Editor - Jan. 6
Mallard Fillmore cartoon was absurd To the editor: Never having seen a Mallard Fillmore cartoon prior to the one in question, I have to wonder if they are equally absurd. To say that Obama’s re-election is due to the mainstream media beggars...Tags: Politics, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News Channel (tv network), U.S. Department of State, The Washington Post
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Falling food, gas costs lower U.S. wholesale prices
AP Economics WriterU.S. wholesale prices fell for the third month in a row last month, pushed down by falling food and gas costs. The drop is the latest evidence inflation is tame. The producer price index dropped 0.2 percent in December, the Labor Department said Tuesday....Tags: Inflation and Deflation, Labor Markets, Money and Monetary Policy, Consumers, AAA
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