| Clinton Rallies, Counterattacks At Debate
After two bad weeks in the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign, she recovered her footing and pushed back sharply at her opponents in a debate Thursday night." Obama "had only an average night, and on a couple of questions he seemed flummoxed." And Edwards "should have stayed home." In a Newsweek online exclusive, Howard Fineman says, "Hillary Clinton said she was wearing her 'asbestos pants suit' in Las Vegas, but, more important, she was wearing a smile and carrying a fistful of ammo and sound bytes. It was time to drop her rising challenger, Barack Obama, and she did it with the grin and grace of a Park Avenue gun moll." Time today rates the candidates, and gives Clinton the highest marks of the contenders. In his column in The Politico, Roger Simon writes, "The (rhymes with rich) is back," noting that Clinton "gave as good as she got.
Feds' wallet opens to individuals hit by flood
Saturday, Bush had issued a limited emergency declaration as some of his top emergency and transportation officials were touring flood damage with Gregoire, Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, and Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton. Carlos Castillo, FEMA's assistant administrator for disaster assistance, was on a helicopter with them and was urged at stops in Lewis and Grays Harbor counties to speed approval of federal aid. There were also FEMA teams on the ground in both places gathering information needed before the more expansive disaster aid could be approved. The Saturday declaration was for so-called public assistance. That freed up federal money for debris removal and any continuing emergency-response needs. But the individual assistance is what Gregoire has wanted.
Personal Finance Notebook: Keep tabs on credit reports, or freeze them
Q: What can I do about online identify theft? Basically, some guy sitting at home in his underwear opened an account with Bank of America using my name and Social Security number. I knew nothing about it until the bank contacted me by letter, letting me know that "my" account was about $600 in the hole. The guy had deposited fake checks to open my account and drained it before they bounced. I shred everything and thought I was safe. Now, I've been forced into a new hobby: filing a police report, contacting my bank and creditors, putting an alert on my credit report, making sure my Social Security number is protected. How can I keep this from happening again? .
Experian Consumer Direct With FamilySecure.com Sponsors the Joyful ...
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Experian Consumer Direct(SM), the leading provider of online direct-to-consumer credit reports, scores and monitoring products including FamilySecure.com, today announced its support of The Joyful Feast, a fundraising event designed to celebrate The Joyful Child Foundation's accomplishments and raise funds to expand its efforts to prevent predatory crimes against children. The event takes place Oct. 24 at 6 p.m. at The Grove of Anaheim, Calif. and features a live, half-hour acoustic performance by Grammy-winning artist Cyndi Lauper. The Joyful Child Foundation is a nonprofit, for public benefit organization dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse and abduction through programs that unite and uplift communities. The foundation was inspired by the life of Samantha Runnion, whose life was cut short after being abducted in front of her Orange County, Calif.
New Phishing Scam Email Circulating Through Tri-State
Phishing scams are easy to spot. They may appear to come from a bank you don't do business with. But two days ago, a new phishing scam appeared in the Tri-State. The e-mail claimed to be from Equifax-- the credit reporting service that keeps all our credit information. Charlene Mecklenburg of Colerain Township received the email and calls it very dangerous. It asks the recipient to update their account information. Mecklenburg and her husband check their credit record yearly with Equifax and realize only a scammer would be sending out something like this. But someone might fall for it and go to the crooks' fake website - billed as Equifax eport. If you update your personal information here you could become the victim of identity theft. I called Equifax and it has now put out a warning about this on its website.
Residents return home, many find only remains
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