Surveys

Tuesday marked teacher appreciation day and there's plenty to thank them for. A national survey paid for by OfficeMax said K-8th grade teachers spend hundreds of dollars of their own money every year to help teach our kids. In return, Houston teachers...

— Forget gay marriage. Put aside the war in Afghanistan. Ignore illegal immigration. All are dwarfed by the big gorilla of 2012 — the economy. Election 2012 is all about the economy — especially jobs — the one issue with the power...

People in the Lehigh Valley walked away from organized religion in numbers more than six times greater than across the nation, according to a national survey comparing religious affiliations in 2010 with those in 2000. The Catholic Church and mainline...

Gayle Anderson was live in Whittier with Glenn Pomeroy, CEO of the California Earthquake Authority and Paul Schulz, CEO of the American Red Cross Los Angeles Region about their partnership to help Californians prepared for the next damaging earthquake....

Gayle Anderson was live in Los Angeles at the Red Cross Emergency Operation Center with Glenn Pomeroy, CEO of the California Earthquake Authority and Paul Schulz, CEO of the American Red Cross Los Angeles Region about their partnership to help...

Floridians' consumer confidence dropped in April for the third month in a row, according to a University of Florida survey released Tuesday. Consumer confidence in Florida dropped a point this month to 73. It had been up to 77 in January before the...

Floridians' consumer confidence dropped in March, as gas prices continued to climb, according to a University of Florida survey released Tuesday. Consumer confidence in Florida dropped two points this month to 74. "The big drag on consumers will...

Property tax assessments for farm land in South Dakota continues to evolve as assessors move deeper into a new system of valuing land based on production values. Codington County Director of Equalization Shawna Constant gave the county's Board of...

A recent episode of a home improvement program unintentionally noted an interesting parallel between home and car repairs. It demonstrated conclusively that delaying a needed repair or maintenance never reduces its cost or complexity when it's finally...

More than 50% of carpooling parents allow the 4- to 8-year-olds in their car ??? even their own kids ??? to skip booster seats, according to a national survey published in the February 2012 edition of the journal Pediatrics. Nearly......

Where do you side in the great real estate buy-sell divide of 2012? If you're a homeowner considering selling sometime in the new year, are you apprehensive that you won't get the price you need or want, and therefore it's possible you won't even try to...

Floridians' consumer confidence returned in December, the highest in nine months, the University of Florida reported Tuesday. Consumer confidence increased three points to 69, with UF researchers saying it reflected a cautious optimism in the economy....