Melissa Thompson

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Melissa Thompson writes about a wide range of topics, revealing interesting things we didn't know before. She is a freelance USA Today producer, and a Technorati contributor.

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My Rules for Traveling with the Kids

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Every year, we look forward to our family vacation. Everyone gets a chance to step away from life and have some fun. The only...

6 Simple Ways To Protect Your Car From Theft

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Nobody wants to have to deal with the stress of having their vehicle stolen. Follow these six tips to make sure that your vehicle...

Outdated Colorado City Sewer System Forces City to Ban Development for 1 Year

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The sewer system in Westminster, Colorado is so overburdened and outdated, the city has been forced to ban development for the next 12 months....

Indiana School District Introduces Biometric Gun Safes as Part of Security Upgrade

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Indiana school districts are undergoing intense security upgrades following attacks at schools in Parkland, Sandy Hook and Noblesville that left scores dead. Every school...

4.6M Foreign Gold Coins Stashed Away in West Point, New York

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The Freedom of Information Act has led to the release of information involving 4.6 million foreign gold coins that have been stashed away in...
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How Buy Now, Pay Later Debt Changes Your Bankruptcy Decisions

Finance
Does buy now, pay later debt count when you're deciding whether to file for bankruptcy? More and more, yes, even when the balance never touched your credit report. Split-pay loans from apps like Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm, and Zip have become

The Debt Collector’s AI Voice Agent: How Synthetic-Voice Dunning Calls Are Colliding With Decades-Old Consumer Protection Rules

Technology
Most consumers assume the friendly voice on a collection call belongs to a person following a script. It is often a script following a person. A synthetic voice, cloned or generated by an AI agent, working a call list on behalf of a collect

The Black Box in the Crossover: What Vehicle Event Data Recorders Capture in the Seconds Before a Fatal Pedestrian Crash

Legal
A pedestrian killed by a crossover has, on average, about 20 seconds of the driver's inputs sitting inside the car that hit them. Throttle position. Brake pressure. Steering angle. Whether the seat belt was buckled and whether stability con

When the CFO Leaves: How Growing Companies Keep the Books on Track

Business
Most owners assume a CFO exit is mainly an HR headache. Post the job, run the search, backfill the seat. The seat is the easy part. What breaks first is the reporting cadence: the month-end close nobody owns, the covenant calculation that u
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