Lots of letters today about House Speaker Thom Tillis' decision to use taxpayer money to pay two former staffers an extra month of salary after they resigned over improper intimate relationships with lobbyists. You'll see most of these in the paper, too.

If Nutella has had a regular spot on your pantry shelf,  you may have a refund coming to you.

That's the result of the $3 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit challenging advertising claims that the chocolate hazelnut spread was a “wholesome” food that could be served as part of a "balanced" and "nutritous breakfast."

Thanks to all the Campbell Law School students and staff who spent their Wednesday evening with me learning about coupons, rebates and frugal living.

If this is your first time reading the blog: Welcome!

I really enjoyed meeting all of you and hope you will make the Centsible Saver blog a regular part of your day as you look for grocery deals, freebies and other tips on saving money and living a frugal lifestyle.

Look for new posts about savings opportunities seven days a week. And be sure to check in on Wednesday and Sunday mornings when I post the best sales and coupon matchups at the supermarkets and drugstsores -- all of them tailored to Triangle shoppers.

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The CORRAL Riding Academy raised more than $20,000 at its inaugural Gala Fundraiser held Feb. 19 at the Angus Barn Pavilion in Raleigh, the nonprofit organization announced this past week.

The money, which included more than $3,000 raised in the night’s silent auction, will be used in the treatment of at-risk and adjudicated teenage girls who are paired with rescued horses in the nonprofit organization’s riding and mentoring program.

The recession has been particularly unkind to the legal profession, where a combination of lost public sector jobs and consolidated private firm services has created a job vacuum.

This hasn't been good news for the hundreds of new lawyers streaming out of North Carolina law schools over the last few years.

As I report today, the job market for new lawyers is still lagging, as is the market for summer jobs for current law school students.

It's bad enough that one local law school dean recently sent an email plea to his alumni asking them for help finding jobs. Even those that don't pay anything.

I'm guessing this story will prompt a great deal of tut-tut-tutting about how there are too many lawyers. This is actually quite hard to gauge. The industry itself doesn't have a distinct way to measure market saturation, and law schools say they don't restrict enrollment when times get tough because of the lag time between when a student starts law school and when he or she graduates.

It's a three-year journey, and a lot can happen to an economy, good or bad, in that time.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer will visit Duke Law School on April 14.

Breyer, a member of the nation's high court since 1994, will take part in the law school's "Lives in the Law" forum  with Dean David F. Levi and Professor Walter Dellinger.

The conversation will begin at 12:15 p.m. in Room 3041 of the Law School. A light lunch will be served on a first-come, first-served basis, according to a Duke news release.

The event is intended for law students and undergrads and is not open to the public because the venue isn't large enough, a Duke law school spokeswoman said.

A Harvard Law graduate, Breyer received his AB from Stanford University and a BA from Magdalen College, Oxford.

It's always a big deal when a sitting justice visits a law school. Duke has had plenty over the years, including at least two chief justices, William Rehnquist in 2002 and Earl Warren in 1962,

In the last decade, the law school at UNC-Chapel Hill has hosted associate justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Sandra Day O'Connor.

And N.C. Central University's law school scored a coup last year when sitting chief justice John Roberts came to town.

Nominated by President Clinton, Justice Breyer took his seat on the Supreme Court on August 3, 1994. From 1980 to 1990, he served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as its chief judge from 1990 to 1994.

Dellinger, Duke's Douglas B. Maggs Professor Emeritus of Law, is chair of appellate practice at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C., and a frequent Supreme Court advocate. He served as acting U.S. solicitor general for the 1996-1997 Supreme Court term.