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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Texting Behind The Wheel Up 50%!Texting while driving: Though its flat out illegal in many states, a new study by the Feds reveals the potentially deadly habit has actually... |
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Results Are In: Which Carriers Have the Best and Worst Cell Phone Service?Who's the best and worst rated cellular carriers in the country? Consumer Reports just released its annual survey and some of the findings may... |
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Does Your Pet Need a Flu Shot? |
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Top 10 Searches of 2011Stop. Don’t read any further. Get out a pen and paper and write down your answers to this question: What topics do you think people searched... |
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Fun, Affordable Nights INEven in financial tough times, everyone is still in need for some fun! What are creative, innovative ways you can stay in with your girlfriends or... |
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What Would You Do If... You Received Flowers Like These?What would you do if you received flowers from your guy and they were wilted, weak ...or just plain ugly? Our Gal About Town Mary Schwager took to... |
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Holiday Shopping SCAMS To Watch ForDuring the holiday shopping season, shoppers cheer, “We’re going to SAVE big bucks!” But what they may not realize is bad... |
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Official Shopping Forecast: Will You 'Self Gift' This Year?“One for you… two for me.” “One for you… two for me.” According to a new survey, that’s how many... |
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What Makes Men HOT On the Dance Floor?Move over Austin Powers. We’ve got the info on how all guys can ‘Move Like Jagger' and bring their 'Sexy Back'.... |
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Are Self Service CheckOut Lanes Checking Out?I'm going to confess my bias in the beginning of this column: I detest self service store checkout's. Inevitably something always goes... |
