Google, eBay race to offer buyers same-day deliveryThe Seattle TimesGoogle, eBay race to offer buyers same-day delivery. Google Shopping Express will add pressure to companies like eBay that are growing their own same-day delivery programs in what has become a fierce race between tech giants. By Heather Somerville. More: continued …
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Hollis reader stumps Babe Waxpak with baseball stamp questionNashua TelegraphDear Babe: I was going through a bag of early 1900s postage stamps and came across three baseball cards or stamps of sorts (image attached). They show Jimmy Sheckard of Chicago, Nat., Dots Miller of Pittsburgh, Nat., and Johnny Evers of …
Read More »Fan on eBay Tried to Sell Johnny Manziel’s Autographed Air From Rice Game – Rant Sports
Rant Sports Fan on eBay Tried to Sell Johnny Manziel's Autographed Air From Rice GameRant SportsJohnny Manziel is one of those athletes that seems to make headlines no matter how he performs week in and week out. This offseason has been an eventful one for the reigning Heisman winner, seemingly …
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The Government aims to float the postal service on the stock market by the end of the financial year in April 2014. More: continued here
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DYERSBURG, Tenn. — As a self-described "true Southern man" — and reluctant recipient of food stamps — Dustin Rigsby, a struggling mechanic, hunts deer, dove and squirrel to help feed his family. He shops for grocery bargains, cooks budget-stretching stews and limits himself to one meal a day. More: continued …
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Read More »Kansas delegates: Farm bill, food stamps on table – Topeka Capital Journal
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Bridgeton history hysteria; Post office parking; BEN Column, Sept. 7, update 2NJ.comHandicap blocking at the Bridgeton Post Office. It's bad enough that the Tahoe parked in the no parking zone in front of the handicap parking at the Bridgeton Post Office, but then a Mariner came along and totally blocked …
Read More »OH to limit food stamps for some adults
The administration of Ohio Gov. John Kasich plans to limit food stamps for more than 130,000 adults in all but a few economically depressed areas starting next year. More: continued here
Read More »This Report Contradicts Everything Republicans Have Told You About Food … – PolicyMic
PolicyMic This Report Contradicts Everything Republicans Have Told You About Food …PolicyMicMuch has been made about the GOP desire to make $40 billion in cuts to the federal food stamp program vital to millions of American children and families, as Congress negotiates over the latest version of the 2013 Farm …
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