A Good Week for Green Funds (TheStreet.com)
Energy bill boosts ethanol producers.

What Does That Medicare Plan Really Offer? (KiplingerForecasts.com)
This is the perfect time to research options because it's open enrollment season.

AARP is drug plan advocate, marketer (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)
When Kim Andrews advises seniors in suburban Delaware County, Pa., on choosing a Medicare drug plan, she finds that the AARP-branded options are not typically the cheapest. The AARP plans often cost hundreds of dollars more a year than the lowest-priced competitors, according to estimates by the government's Medicare Web site, which Andrews uses. "They're usually not in my top 10 on a comparison ...

Military housing checks increase (Everett Herald)
The disparity between the allowances for single and married service members is slowly disappearing.