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Feb 10, 2025 | 
arcamax.com | Bob Goldman |Jill Schlesinger |Zig Ziglar |Cliff Ennico
Q: I just bought a pristine 2017 Mercedes-Benz GLA250, only 60,000 miles, with brand new run-flat tires. Love the car! Hate -- I mean hate -- the ride! My teeth jar going over bumps! These tires are just terrible! My mechanic took some air out of the tires but told me if I want a more smooth, regular ride, I need to buy “regular tires.” I only drive about 12 miles round trip to play pickleball and do some shopping and I have AAA, so I’m not concerned about a flat tire.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
arcamax.com | Bob Goldman |Jill Schlesinger |Zig Ziglar |Cliff Ennico
LYNNWOOD, Washington — Bill Cusick, president of Ran‐Tech Engineering, a manufacturer of metal aerospace parts employing 60 workers near Portland, credits a dramatic change in Boeing’s approach to suppliers with helping his company survive the Machinists strike last fall. When the strike hit, 90% of Ran-Tech’s business was on hold as Boeing instructed suppliers to stop shipping parts.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
arcamax.com | Bob Goldman |Jill Schlesinger |Zig Ziglar |Cliff Ennico
There’s a design consistency to the best luxury car brands, a continuum of style that unconditionally declares what it is. Go back to 1938 and you’ll recognize the BMW 328’s grille. The same is true of Mercedes-Benz. Cadillac became synonymous with egg crate grilles and tailfins, boasting a sinister yet sublimely luxurious vibe. Then there’s Rolls-Royce, with a grille as imposing as a bank vault, with a price tag that requires robbing one.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
arcamax.com | Bob Goldman |Jill Schlesinger |Zig Ziglar |Cliff Ennico
Insurance regulators spent more than seven months considering the 14% average rate hike proposed for homeowners covered by state-owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and ultimately voted thumbs down. Rate hikes proposed by Citizens in June by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. were slashed in a final order by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation obtained Thursday by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
arcamax.com | Bob Goldman |Jill Schlesinger |Zig Ziglar |Cliff Ennico
TAMPA, Florida — Pine Key — the Tampa Bay landmark better known to locals as Beer Can Island — has seen better days. Hurricane Helene put the private island about eight feet underwater, said co-owner Russell Loomis. The storm destroyed every structure on the island, wiping out the concert stage, tiki bar, giant slide and food truck. Hurricane Milton followed with winds that toppled about half of the island’s trees. “When you go out there, now it looks like a bad hair day,” Loomis said.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
arcamax.com | Bob Goldman |Jill Schlesinger |Zig Ziglar |Cliff Ennico
Phone companies represent a critical line of defense when it comes to warning about or blocking robocalls and robotexts. But most telecom carriers are failing to adequately protect their customers, which is contributing to a rebound in the number of spam messages, according to a report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. About 2 billion unwanted calls and 19 billion unwanted texts go out in the U.S. every month.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
arcamax.com | Bob Goldman |Jill Schlesinger |Zig Ziglar |Cliff Ennico
U.S. job growth slowed at the start of the year, the government said Friday, as business services, manufacturing and other major industries held back on adding new jobs amid increased uncertainty around the economy. The exceptions were retail, healthcare and government, which accounted for almost all of the 143,000 net new jobs added last month. That's still healthy growth, but lower than the 170,000 economists were expecting.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
arcamax.com | Bob Goldman |Jill Schlesinger |Zig Ziglar |Cliff Ennico
MARYSVILLE, Ohio — The 2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz EV has rolled up wins this auto awards season — including North American Utility of the Year — because it’s iconic, roomy and just so doggone adorable. Though the Hoover family may disagree.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
arcamax.com | Bob Goldman |Jill Schlesinger |Zig Ziglar |Cliff Ennico
President Donald Trump suggested Friday on stage with Japan's prime minister that Nippon Steel will not be allowed to buy U.S. Steel. "They'll be looking at an investment rather than a purchase," Trump said. "U.S. Steel is a very important company to us. It was the greatest company in the world for 15 years, many years ago, 80 years ago, and we didn't want to see that leave, and it wouldn't actually leave, but the concept psychologically [is] not good.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
arcamax.com | Bob Goldman |Jill Schlesinger |Zig Ziglar |Cliff Ennico
WASHINGTON — U.S. job growth slowed at the start of the year, the government said Friday, as business services, manufacturing and other major industries held back on adding new jobs amid increased uncertainty about the economy. The Los Angeles-area wildfires, which began Jan. 7, didn’t have a material effect on the nation’s employment numbers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics noted. But analysts said it remains to be seen what the fires’ impact on jobs will be for California and beyond.
