Company wants food stamps for fast foodWANEFORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The parent company of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver's, and KFC is lobbying in Washington, DC to be allowed to accept food stamps. That's causing some nutrition experts to worry about expanding waistlines. … More: continued here
Blackout: Food Stamps Recipients May've Been Hit HardVoice of San DiegoThat may not be so easy in the kitchens of more than 200000 of the county's poorest residents who rely on county food stamps to stock their refrigerators. Social service and food pantry workers don't know the magnitude of those losses, …and more » More: continued…
Groupon Leaps Into E-Commerce in the UKBusinessWeek(Bloomberg) — Groupon Inc. has begun offering discounts on products sold over the Web in the UK, thrusting the Internet-coupon company into closer competition with the likes of Amazon.com Inc. and EBay Inc. The Chicago-based …and more » More: continued here
KDLT News Residents Voice Concerns For Post OfficeKDLT NewsMany towns have been fighting to keep their post offices from shutting down, and the US Postal Service is holding several town meetings this week to give people the chance to voice their concerns. … More: continued here
Mail to come later as post office combines routesWSOC CharlotteThe post office consolidated dozens of routes throughout Charlotte. The post office on Carmel Road in south Charlotte was one of the first to get new technology that sorts mail so that postal carriers don't have to. That technology is spreading to many …Later mail likely…
Business Recorder Great Portland swoops on two London officesCITY A.M.The London property developer has agreed to buy a 2.3-acre site near Oxford Street from the Royal Mail Group for £120m in cash – its largest deal to-date. Royal Mail will lease back the site until June 2013, then vacate it to allow Great Portland begin…
Get your low-income cell phone discount!WNEM SaginawTo qualify for Lifeline in Michigan, the customer's household income must be at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, or the customer must participate in one of the following assistance programs: Medicaid; food stamps; …Kentucky offers free telephone service for food stamp recipientsExaminer.comPUC deals available on…
Fox News Opinion: Don't let the Postal Service collapseNorthJersey.comBut such enterprises would not restore the kinds of value an actual post office provides to the hundreds of communities and neighborhoods that soon may find themselves without one Fair Lawn Deputy Mayor Joseph Tedeschi, whose town faces the closing of …Postal Service faces prospect of defaultPoliticoLeaders…
Residents in a small Brevard beach community are rallying around their local post office, which is in danger of getting stamped out of existence. More: continued here
Over 3,000 post offices around the country are facing potential closure. That includes the Powell Post Office in McDonald County. More: continued here