Author: M.S. Enkoji

A customer picks a card at Pulp Papery in east Sacramento. Co-owner Manpreet Bains says the recession has hurt but there will always be a market for paper cards.A few days before Valentine’s Day, shoppers jostled shoulder to shoulder before overflowing racks of greeting cards with touches of red at…

It’s time to wrap up that online shopping if you’re hoping your purchases arrive in time for Christmas. Deadlines set by many online retailers are expiring this week and a sizable chunk have set Friday as your last shot, according to a survey of retailers for Shop.org. Online holiday shopping…

An estimated $100 million in potential sales tax revenue never makes it into state coffers – and won’t any time soon – even in a monumental year of budget shortfalls. A bill to close what some call a loophole for Internet purchasers stalled in the Legislature earlier this year in…