CONROE – Visitors to the Montgomery County Fair can get free, practical advice for managing their family’s budget. The Texas Agricultural Extension Service-Montgomery County will provide the service to visitors at their exhibit through March 25. The exhibit will be at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds, 9031 FM 1484, Conroe. It will be staffed by Texas…
ARLINGTON More than 200 Texas professionals working in family and consumer science will gather at the Arlington-Hilton March 2-4 for their annual meeting, which will focus on how technology impacts families. “We’ve combined business with two days of professional development sessions,” said Joan Imlay Gillespie, vice president for professional development for the Texas Association…
CLARENDON No business ever outperforms its employees, says best-selling business author and syndicated newspaper columnist Don Taylor, director of West Texas A&M University’s Small Business Development Center program. “Finding, training and keeping good people is just good business,” said Taylor, who is the featured speaker at the Feb. 22 workshop slated from 7 to…
COLLEGE STATION Food safety is what has been cooking in the United States in the 20th century, and researchers of the 21st century should be pro-active in finding the causes and develop prevention strategies to minimize further food-borne illness outbreaks, according to the director of the Center for Food Safety at Texas A&M University….
Writer: Melanie Maxcey, (979) 845-2895,m-maxcey@tamu.edu Contact: Jenna Anding, (409) 847-9927,j-anding@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Everything is bigger in Texas, or so the saying goes. Trucks are bigger. Buildings, hair and steaks are bigger. And now, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Texans are getting bigger too. Since 1991, the percentage of obese…
COLLEGE STATION When retirement is still a long way off, it’s often hard to focus on the details that get you there. But some opportunities are just too good to pass up, says Certified Financial Planner Nancy Granovsky. “One of the best opportunities is the Roth IRA,” says Granovsky, family economist with the Texas…
COLLEGE STATION A recent survey by Zillions magazine found that kids are spending more money on snacks than any thing else about $5 a week on drinks, candy, chips, cookies and other foods. An economist with Texas A&M University suggests that parents encourage children to manage their money so that their spending habits…
COLLEGE STATION Appliances labeled “ENERGY STAR” by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency save consumers money and conserve energy, states a housing specialist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Consider that a typical household does nearly 400 loads of laundry per year, using about 40 gallons of water per full load with a conventional washer….
COLLEGE STATION In October 1999, the Social Security Administration began to mail individualized Social Security Statements to 125 million workers age 25 and older who are not currently receiving Social Security benefits. This is the largest, customized mailing ever undertaken by a Federal agency and what workers learn from their statements can help them…
COLLEGE STATION Many consumers think that everyone pays the same amount for auto insurance, but what you and your neighbor pay can be very different. “What you pay depends on your insurance company, the kind of car you drive, where you live and the coverage you carry,” explained Nancy Granovsky, family economics specialist with…
