New Verizon Hub Puts a Communications Command Center in the Home; Available in More Than 2,500 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores Households across the nation can now experience for themselves the most talked-about new consumer electronics device on the market, the Verizon Hub. The Verizon Hub is an intuitive device that puts a communications command center [...]
VisitPa.com to offer live Web cast of Groundhog Day prognostication On Feb. 2, join Groundhog Day celebrants for Punxsutawney Phil’s annual weather forecast through a live Web cast from Gobblers Knob at visitPa.com/groundhog. Each year the famous groundhog emerges slightly after 7 a.m. from his stump to predict the fate of winter. According to folklore, [...]
On the eve of Black History Month, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life released a new analysis that paints a detailed religious portrait of African-Americans. The analysis finds that African-Americans are markedly more religious than the U.S. population as a whole on a variety of measures, including reporting a religious affiliation, [...]
Thriving entrepreneur Scott Baxter weighs in In today’s doomsday economy, few CEOs can boast of creating jobs and increasing profits. Scott Baxter, the recession-busting founder of SA Baxter (http://www.sabaxter.com/), a high-end manufacturer of architectural hardware, had the most successful business quarter ever and is thriving both domestically and internationally. He successfully launched his third venture [...]
Workers Making $75,000 Would Get $500 in Relief; Seniors with Average Social Security Income of $13,836 Would Get Just $300 The U.S. Senate version of the economic stimulus package would provide Social Security recipients and disabled veterans a one-time extra payment of $300. The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) supports the $300 payment to seniors, but [...]
Los Angeles EITC Partnership Supports Families with Refund Filing, Free Tax Preparation, and Financial Counseling throughout Los Angeles County The Greater Los Angeles Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Campaign Partnership, led by United Way of Greater Los Angeles, today announced its annual effort to help qualified low and moderate-income families reach financial stability during a [...]
Data Privacy Day tomorrow, opportunity for consumer education on privacy issues Consumer Policy Solutions released a new survey examining consumer awareness and understanding of online privacy. With Data Privacy Day tomorrow, this is an especially timely survey intended to help raise consumer awareness of privacy issues and give consumers the knowledge and tools needed for [...]
What do Troy Polamalu, Coca-Cola and Steel have in common? As fate* would have it, Steelers safety Polamalu will appear in a Coca-Cola ad Super Bowl Sunday — and not only bring back memories of the 1980 commercial where “Mean Joe Green gets comforted by a kid who hands him a coke(1)” — but will [...]
Tens of thousands of pro-life supporters filled the boulevard along San Francisco’s waterfront for more than a mile in the 5th Annual Walk for Life West Coast today, walking behind a 10-foot-long “Abortion Hurts Women” banner. The Walk came four days after President Barack Obama’s inauguration and one day after Obama reversed the Bush administration’s [...]
Interactive Game Turns BURN NOTICE Fans into Spies with Seven New Action-Packed Video-Based Missions USA Network announced today that its digital team will continue its aggressive push into the online gaming world with the launch of COVERT OPS 2.0, an alternate reality game (www.burnnoticeops.com) themed to the #1 scripted series on cable, BURN NOTICE. Developed [...]