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Economy still got you down? Sign up for a free Money Smarts workshop and learn how to stretch your dollar. AARP has teamed up with a bunch of experts including folks from the Attorney General's Office to teach consumers how to spend less, save more and outwit the latest economic scams and schemes.

Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna (总检察长)  is again reaching out to Chinese-American community leaders to help protect residents from fraud and unfair business practices. McKenna, working with Chinese-American community leaders, will host a free public forum focused on consumer protection issues this Saturday at the Attorney General’s Seattle office.

With the price of gold reaching record highs of well over $1,000, you might be thinking about finally dumping that wedding band from your first marriage or cashing in on that broken, out-of-fashion chain. But before you trade in valuables for cash, you should ready Attorney General's Rob McKenna's latest Ask the AG column.

Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna is again reaching out to Chinese-American community leaders to help protect residents from fraud and unfair business practices. McKenna, working with Chinese-American community leaders, will host a free public forum focused on consumer protection issues Saturday, May 29, at the Attorney General’s Seattle office.

For years now, the Italian restaurant chain The Olive Garden has touted in commercials their cooking school in Tuscany where they send their chefs to “learn the secrets of Italian cooking." ...

By now we have all seen the attention-grabbing U.S. census commercials that first aired during the last Super Bowl.  ... While in the commercials they’re absurdly trying to plan how to literally capture all 300 million Americans on film, the idea is essentially what the census is – taking a snapshot of America. ... This is a huge project, people. ... It looks like your browser cannot or does not support IFRAMES.

Coinciding with the start of Consumer Protection Week, March 7-13, the state Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) released statistics regarding consumer complaints for 2009. Energy companies moved to the top of the inauspicious list, replacing telecommunications.

If you live in the Puget Sound and are planning to make home improvements, curious about the paperwork required to run a nonprofit or interested in data privacy, you may want to check out these events ...

General Tobacco products, including Bronco, Champion, GT, Silver and 32⁰ cigarettes, will soon be removed from Washington store shelves.

Puget Sound Energy customers can comment on the company’s proposed electric and gas rate increases during a public hearing next week in Olympia or by e-mail. This is PSE’s first rate case following the sale of the utility to the Macquarie investor consortium which was approved by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) in December 2008.