Welfare recipients forced to wait hours for food stampsKTNV Las VegasThe state gets a total of 15,000 food stamp and Medicaid applications every month only about 76 percent of them get processed in a timely manner. A big set back is the mandated furlough. They lose 5,000 man hours a month, and with three holidays…
Planes come and go at the Albany Airport al the time, but now one plane sits there, and won't be leaving the ground. FexEx donated a plane to emergency safety… More: continued here
SNYDER: Buy a duck stamp, help conservationYorkdispatch.comTake the long-term success of the national duck stamp program. To the outsider, it doesn't sound like much — just a $15 license that lets hunters bag migratory birds. But anybody who has followed the program through the decades knows duck stamps play …and more » More: continued here
Yahoo! News (blog) Postal Service expects 20% increase in holiday packagesUSA TODAYThe Postal Service will continue with its five-year plan to consolidate mail-processing facilities and cut hours at some post offices, Donahoe said. The Postal Service has also asked Congress to allow it to deliver the mail five days a week instead of …Postal Service…
Forbes Inside eBay Billionaire Pierre Omidyar's Battle To End Human TraffickingForbesPierre Omidyar looked out over Nepal's Kathmandu Valley this past February, scanning the horizon with his camera in hand. All the billionaire eBay founder could see for miles were huge, belching chimneys taller than houses and mountains of red bricks …and more » More: continued here
Stamps getting closer to lineup decisions; Brandon Smith once again overlooked …Calgary Herald (blog)Spencer Wilson and Edwin Harrison were sharing reps on Thursday, but Stamps coach and GM John Hufnagel confirmed afterwards that it's not simply a matter of which of them performs better in practice this week that will determine his starter on Sunday….
eBay Reminds Holiday Shoppers That Ponies Are Dangerous Animals and …mediabistro.comTaking the lead for Christmas 2012 is eBay, that magical monolith of online shopping, who in this spot for VB+P is reminding idiotic, out-of-touch wealthy parents that buying your young daughter a pony is a fucking stupid idea. Sorry, dumb parents, but … More: continued…
Royal Mail will hire 1,000 employees and expand package-processing hubs. Online sales in the U.K. will account for 12.4% of gross domestic product by 2016, according to consultancy Boston Consulting Group. More: continued here
Kaneville residents speak out against reduced post office hours KANEVILLE—Kaneville residents on Nov. 1 attended a forum expecting to plead their case against the United State Postal Service’s pending decision to reduce Kaneville Post Office hours. More: continued here
Do You Know Someone on Food Stamps? Is the Program Abused?Millionaire CornerAbout one in seven Americans now receives food subsidies through SNAP, a Department of Agriculture program popularly known as food stamps. A record 46,434,141million Americans participated in SNAP in July 2012, the most recent month reported by the … More: continued here