by Colin Lovett, PICurrent Managing Editor When you left college, you probably left behind a lot of books, some not so close friends and probably more than a few stained shirts. But if your like millions of recent graduates, the one thing you didn’t leave behind was your tuition debt. It still lives with you, [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Help Coming for College Student Loan Debt
Posted in Crash Course, Education, Money, tagged college loans, debt, department of education, federal student loans, income based repayment, Money on June 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Skilled Workers Wanted: Are You Missing Out on Job Training Opportunities?
Posted in Crash Course, Employment, tagged apprenticeships, assistance, career help, career one stop, Employment, high demand jobs, job search, job services, jobs, on the job training, Recession, skills on June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
by Alexis Cala, PICurrent Assistant Producer Despite monthly unemployment numbers and the recession, employers are still looking for skilled workers. Many people think jobs are out of reach because they don’t have the experience. Leaving many job hunters discouraged and out of work, and employers understaffed. However, there is a growing number of well paying, [...]
Stopping Childhood Diabetes in its Tracks
Posted in Health Care, tagged childhood diabetes, diabetes, health, Health Care, healthy lifestyle, prevent diabetes, Symptoms, type 2 diabetes, warning signs on June 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Alexis Cala, PICurrent Assistant Producer Nearly 20 million Americans are living with diabetes, including children and teenagers. In fact, more kids today are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Is it time to change some of our bad habits? According to the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) over 186,000 children under the age of [...]
Fed Looks at Regulating Bloggers
Posted in Money, tagged ads, bloggers, blogs, conflict of interest, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, technology on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Colin Lovett, PICurrent Managing Producer You’ve seen the reviews on different blogs for products and services. They tell you to buy this phone or subscribe to that online service. Some really do have your best interests at heart and offer independent reviews. Others, however, are paid to give the reviews. And often they don’t [...]
Tech Corner: New Tools and Controversy
Posted in Money, tagged Bing, cell phones, competition, google, iPhone, overstream, Pre, search engine, subtitles, technology, video on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by Colin Lovett, PICurrent Managing Producer The big tech news this month is two arrivals. The first is Bing, a new search engine from Microsoft that is aimed at giving Google a run for its money (that is a lot of money to run for). Bing seems to be easy to use with some [...]
Zicam Cold Medicine Warning: What You Should Know
Posted in Health Care, tagged cold remedy, consumer warning, FDA warning, health, loss of smell, Matrixx, nasal gel, Zicam on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Alexis Cala, PICurrent Assitant Producer With all the sniffles, sneezing, and flu going around, everyone should be taking extra precautions to stay healthy. However, some cold medicines might do more than you’d like them to. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers about certain Zicam nasal cold remedy products. It seems [...]






