A few years ago almost every night when I would go home from work there would be at least one message on my home phone machine. The caller was usually loud, sarcastic and intimidating.It was a man calling from a debt collection firm trying to collect some money. But they had the wrong guy. The ...

The Kansas Attorney General's office has produced an identity theft repair kit.Released only a few days ago, the kit is a brochure that describes how to prevent and repair damage caused by identity thieves, according to a news release from Attorney General Stephen Six.Identify theft is the ...

How have you kept expenses down while planning for international travel? I've found the following ideas useful:1) Money conversions. Generally, I've stayed away from travelers' checks because I like to travel as simply as possible, and not all the places where I want to spend money will accept ...

Grandparents in Kansas who are raising their grandchildren have better access to information they need when it comes to insurance issues.Earlier this month Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger announced expanded components of the Insure U consumer education program. You can find ...

At the end of July the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee passed a bill that would curb predatory credit card lending practices. It now awaits a vote on the House floor.The bill, H.R. 5244, is called the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights and was introduced in February ...

So just how bad is the poverty rate in Lawrence? Is it really 20 percent of the population, as the latest U.S. Census Bureau data indicates and [as was reported earlier this week][1]?How about heads, "yes," tails, "no."Some callers and those who placed comments online about the story noted that ...