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
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Why You Might Need Wedding Insuranceconsumers: consider wedding insurance before you say "i do" When most people get married, they expect nothing but perfection. After months... |
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Spotting Air Conditioner Issues BEFORE a Meltdowntips to keep your air conditioner working efficiently It never seems to fail: You’re in the middle of a summer heat wave, your air conditioner... |
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Budget Friendly Wedding Tipsbudget savvy wedding planning It’s supposed to be fun, but let’s face it, wedding planning can be downright stressful. There’s the... |
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5 Common Mistakes That Could Cost You Your Homeimportant information for consumers If you think the foreclosure crisis is over, I’ll show you my inbox. It’s filled with emails from... |
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7 Ways to Speak Geekbe a smart consumer by learning how to effectively communicate with "geeks" Can you speak geek? Can you understand geek? When you walk into... |
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10 Ways Not to Get Ripped Off Buying Wineconsumer tips for smart wine buying When you’re strolling through the wine section in the liquor store or purusing the wine list at a... |
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8 Tips for Resolving a Complaintways for consumers to complain and get results Who hasn’t been in a situation when they feel like they’ve been duped, ripped off or... |
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10 Ways to Protect Yourself While FlyingConsumers can take steps for safe flying It was the flight I'll never forget. Years ago, back in college, I was on a commercial airline jet... |
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Portable Pool Warning For Summer 2012It’s 85 degrees out, and your kids are complaining about the heat, so you pick up one of those plastic or blow up portable pools at the store... |
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New Shopping Trend: Do You Scan and Scram?Are you a “scan and scram shopper”? This new, high-tech way of buying has some well known retailers with physical store locations... |
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