by Susanna Pak | Apr 30, 2012 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a postal reform bill Wednesday aimed at stopping the U.S. Postal Service from hemorrhaging $25 million per day, but critics of the bill say it will actually make things worse. Robert Cohen, a former Postal Regulatory Commission official,...
by Susanna Pak | Apr 20, 2012 | Business & Tech
For years it’s been a Tax Day tradition: long, snaking lines of last-minute tax filers filling out their forms outside post offices, trying to get their mail postmarked by midnight. That’s not the case anymore because more people are filing...
by Susanna Pak | Apr 13, 2012 | Business & Tech
Postal workers protest Senate bill from Medill Washington on Vimeo. WASHINGTON – Postal Service workers protested outside lawmakers’ offices across the country Thursday, calling for “no” votes on a postal reform bill that could stop Saturday delivery and end...
by Susanna Pak | Apr 9, 2012 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON – With the Greek elections about a month away, the resolution of the country’s debt crisis is proving to be “primarily a political problem,” according to the mayor of a town in central Greece. Kostas Bakoyannis, mayor of Karpenisi, said in a conference call...
by Susanna Pak | Apr 5, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman said Thursday the tax service is “putting a big dent in offshore tax evasion” as part of its plan to focus on large businesses. “We upped the ante in a meaningful way with our work on Swiss financial...
