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...more afraid in public because of this experience? To this day, I never, ever, ever answer the door if I don't know who's out there. Halloween frightens me to death...
These days, though, with hungry tradesmen chasing fewer homeowner dollars, consumers who may not know the difference between a nail and a hammer have the upper hand. If you've got the money, someone who knows his way around a band saw has got the time, and often at a very good price. And chances are, depending on where you live - best spots: the West Coast and the Northeast - he'll be right over...
More and more contractors are offering deep discounts, especially when three or four competitors show up to bid on a project, no matter how small. "It's pretty tough right now," says Paul Witcovich, an independent contractor in Lafayette, Colo. "I know that I'm charging less than I did in 1978, which is about $30 per hour or less...
Every political coalition needs a catchy name. The 1840s had the Know-Nothings, the 1980s had the Boll Weevils, and now there are the Blue Dogs, a group of 52 fiscally conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives whose staunch resistance to the White House's health-care legislation efforts might delay a vote well past President Obama's August deadline. (Read "Why the Blue Dogs Are Slowing Health-Care Reform...
...they work," says Chuck Loveless, legislative director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Of the Kerry excise tax proposal, Loveless says, "We're looking at it very closely and we're trying to calculate the cost of excise tax on our plans, but I do know it's going to hit some union plans...