by Susanna Pak | May 10, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, who co-sponsored a House bill aimed at saving the U.S. Postal Service, said a proposal announced Wednesday is nowhere near strong enough to rescue the quasi-government agency for good. The ongoing saga’s latest...
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 Mara Grbenick | Apr 24, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON— The United States will be at a competitive disadvantage in the global online marketplace if federal laws and regulations aren’t changed to meet the demand for video streaming, top executives of Amazon Inc. and Microsoft Corp. told a Senate committee...
by Mara Grbenick | Apr 23, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON—Tax filing day has come and gone, but for small businesses trying to plan for the future, worries lingers about complicated tax forms and burdensome federal regulations. Businesses with 500 or fewer employees pay more than larger ones to comply with federal...
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 Mara Grbenick | Apr 17, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — As Congress considers a plan to use U.S.-made steel in pennies and nickels to save hundreds of millions in taxpayer money, it can look to Canada for some common sense on cents. The cost of zinc, copper and other metals used in the coins has risen,...
