| Survey: State's Largest Cities Rank As Relatively Safe
MILWAUKEE -- Residents of the state's bigger cities can feel safe. According to an analysis, Milwaukee is the only Wisconsin city among the nation's top 100 dangerous cities. Milwaukee ranks as the 36th most dangerous city in the U.S., with Racine coming in at 167th, Kenosha at 243rd, Green Bay at 245th and Madison 269th. The 14th annual "City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America" was published by CQ Press, a unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc. It's based on the FBI's Sept. 24 crime statistics report and ranks. The report looked at 378 cities with at least 75,000 people. It considered per-capita rates of homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft. According to the analysis, the top three dangerous cities are Detroit, St.
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About face! Google finally honors Veterans Day
It took nearly a decade, but Internet giant Google is finally honoring Veterans Day with a special holiday design for its famous logo. Users who log onto Google's home page today will see three World War I-era helmets capping the letters "o" and "e" in Google's name. The decoration is a marked departure for the company, which has come under fire from veterans' groups for ignoring American holidays such as Veterans Day and Memorial Day since Google's inception in 1999. The firm, known for its widely used search engine, regularly modifies its logo to commemorate holidays, historical events and figures. (Story continues below) "Maybe all the pressure is paying off," said WND reader Donna Hunter of Philadelphia. "God bless all our soldiers!" When the Los Angeles Times asked the California-based firm about the issue, spokeswoman Sunny Gettinger responded, "Google's special logos tend to be lighthearted and often scientific in nature.
Best Online Newsletter of 2008 to Be Named by Web Marketing Association
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Good credit can help you save on insurance, maybe even get a job
When one longtime St. Louisan saw his car insurance bill jump 28 percent, he was shocked.
He was even more irate when he learned the reason: an unresolved issue with a creditor had left a blot on his otherwise unblemished credit report. He didn't understand what his credit report had to do with his car insurance rate.
More and more, credit information is being used by businesses other than lenders or credit card issuers. Bad credit could hurt your search for a job or even leave you without a place to live.
Carolyn Gorman, vice president of the Insurance Information Institute, said the ease of obtaining credit data has prompted a variety of businesses to add credit checks to the tools they use to evaluate people. .
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