In partnership with Star 101.5

Choose Your Location

Please select your city to read stories, find out about local deals and events and interact with "gals" in your hometown. If you don't see your city, choose our "All Cities" edition for nationwide information, but be sure to check back often. We're adding cities all the time and will be coming to a city near you soon!

Sign up for our newsletter!

Keep on top of the latest deals, promotions, events and news from GalTime.

learn more

Mary Schwager

Mary Schwager
Consumer Watchdog

About the Author

Mary Schwager, AKA Galtime's "WatchDogMary" is a journalist with more than 17 years experience. She's won more than two-dozen local, regional, national and international journalism awards for investigative, consumer, feature reporting and writing including 11 Emmy Awards and 7 Edward R. Murrow Awards and numerous Associated Press honors. She worked as a television reporter, investigative reporter and investigative producer at network affiliated stations across the country including Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Milwaukee, WI, Indianapolis, Indiana and in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating from Marquette University in Milwaukee, she also conducted criminal and insurance fraud investigations as a state licensed detective. Mary is a national consumer columnist for The Examiner. Do you have something you want Mary to check out? Do you have a story idea? Please email her at maryschwager@galtime.com You can also follow her on Twitter @WatchDogMary and "like" her on Facebook.

From this Author

Best Gas Credit Cards

Best Gas Credit Cards

Who isn’t mad about gas prices? It’s getting outright ridiculous ---many businesses that make deliveries are now even charging extra fuel...
Smishing- The Latest Identity Theft Threat

Smishing- The Latest Identity Theft Threat

The newest threat when it comes to electronic identity theft is no longer your computer! It’s your phone and your wireless tablet!  The...
Working Mom Reality Check

Working Mom Reality Check

Some bleak news for mom’s this Mother’s Day! A new survey found that, though the economy is improving, working moms say they’re...
9 Financial Rules to Live By

9 Financial Rules to Live By

Should you make paying off bills or saving a priority? How do you get ahead budget wise? Money headaches and digging out of debt are something so...
Could Bad Credit Cost You a Job?

Could Bad Credit Cost You a Job?

How do you feel about your boss getting a peek at your credit history?  If you’re looking for work it’s very possible you’ll...
Are You a 'Returnaholic'?

Are You a 'Returnaholic'?

Do you find yourself in the return line at the store as much as the checkout line? We’ve heard of shopaholics but are you a returnaholic? Be...
How to Attend a Wedding on a Budget

How to Attend a Wedding on a Budget

First there's the wedding showers, then the Thursday pre-party, Friday rehearsal dinner and the main event. If you're "in" the...
Medical credit cards:  Life savers or money mistakes?

Medical credit cards: Life savers or money mistakes?

Have you ever thought about getting a “medical credit card”? Maybe you’ve seen ads for them at your doctor or vet’s office?...
Affairs of the Wallet: Tips on Combining, Sharing and Separating Money

Affairs of the Wallet: Tips on Combining, Sharing and Separating Money

From the amount of shoes it's 'necessary' to have, to how the word 'clean' is defined, experts say men and women think...
Craziest Tax Deductions

Craziest Tax Deductions

Some call it “Creative Accounting 101”. Others call it an “audit magnet”. Either way, we’re talking about tax...
Welcome!
View this business

Ask an Expert

(If you're a human, don't change the following field)
Your first name.
Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.
To prevent automated spam submissions leave this field empty.