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Credit unions remake themselves in image of payday lenders

By Ben Hallman

Credit unions remake themselves in image of payday lenders

Excerpts from this story referencing "Los Angeles":

"… Park, a middle-class Mexican-American neighborhood just north of downtown Los Angeles. Heredia had come for the Nix standard payday loan offer: a $400, 14-day …"

"… ighborhoods, Nix Check Cashing is one of the largest payday lenders in the Los Angeles area. The Nix chain was acquired four years ago by Kinecta Federal Credit …"

Fights over tribal payday lenders show challenges of financial reform

By Michael Hudson and David Heath

High-interest payday lenders are teaming up with Native Americans to shield their online businesses from lawsuits and consumer-lending regul

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… ders have found unlikely allies: Native American tribes.In legal fights in California, New Mexico, West Virginia and Colorado, a group of Internet-based payday …"

"… still more fees.Interest Rate Over 1,200 PercentA payday loan customer in California, Amy Baillie, claims that after she borrowed $300 from a tribal-affiliated …"

"… Baillie’s cases are among three private lawsuits filed in New Mexico and California against tribal-affiliated lenders. All seek class action status.The lender …"

"… g that they actually owned the businesses. The same scenario played out in California in 2007, when the state Department of Corporations went to court to try to …"

Excluded groups want in on health information technology funding

By Kimberly Leonard

Economic stimulus package has $27 billion for health IT; excluded providers are fighting for a slice

Excerpts from this story referencing "Rhode Island":

"… , a measure introduced in March by Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island that is designed to expand funding for health IT. Republican Sen. Susan Co …"

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Koch's web of influence

By John Aloysius Farrell

The Koch Industries web of influence

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… t use heavy Canadian crude.”When lawmakers in Washington and states like California sought to address global warming by requiring the use of low carbon fuels, …"

"… ists listed the legislation as a lobbying priority on Capitol Hill. And in California, where a wide-ranging series of measures to slow climate change were launc …"

"… ntation of the low-carbon standards and other remedial climate measures in California.Energy industry tax breaksKoch lobbyists spend much of their time, accordi …"

Food safety labs may not have capacity to handle a crisis like Japan's

By Aaron Mehta and Laurel Adams

IG criticizes agencies charged with protecting American food safety as unprepared and understaffed

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… era, testing has confirmed higher levels of radiation in milk from cows in California, Washington, Arkansas, Hawaii and Vermont. Officials have said the radiati …"

Green bundler with the golden touch

By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

Investor Steve Westly straddles the worlds of venture capital, presidential fundraising and government advising

Excerpts from this story referencing "EdeniQ":

"… gy Department loans, grants and stimulus money: Tesla Motors, RecycleBank, EdeniQ and Amyris Biotechnologies. Two of those firms, Tesla and Amyris, went pub …"

"… 009, the Energy Department awarded stimulus grants of $20.4 million for an EdeniQ bio-refinery and $25 million for Amyris to develop a diesel substitute thr …"

"… e’s very focused on financials for us.”In December 2009, Westly-backed EdeniQ landed a $20.4 million Energy Department grant in partnership with Logos T …"

"… ore of a runway to develop new technologies,” said Will Gardenswartz, an EdeniQ contractor on the grant, who said the link with long-established Logos was …"

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Climate facts — and fancy

By Chris Hamby

Truth and fiction, from God’s role to the culpability of cows

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… ade – reduction in emissions – but not through a cap and trade system. California Democrat Henry Waxman tried to make the denial official by reading into th …"

Court clash in Vermont might alter balance of power over nuclear plants

By Mark Clayton / MinnPost.com

Court clash in might alter balance of power over nuclear plants

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… appears to fall under precedent set by a 1983 Supreme Court case in which California succeeded in blocking Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) from building …"

'Green' biomass isn't always so clean

By Ronnie Greene

Toxic plumes spew from an unlikely source: renewable energy plants

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… ce unless the agencies lean on them.” …"

"… ich argues that troubles involving plants such as those in Tallahassee and California’s San Joaquin Valley are not emblematic of the industry’s record as a …"

"… just say we disagree with what they say,” Turner said.Fouling the air in CaliforniaIn California’s agricultural belt, the two Global Ampersand plants opened …"

"… isagree with what they say,” Turner said.Fouling the air in CaliforniaIn California’s agricultural belt, the two Global Ampersand plants opened in 2008 with …"

Skipping safeguards, officials rushed benefit to a politically-connected energy company

By Ronnie Greene and Matthew Mosk

Did White House hurry to spur jobs - or favor firm backed by fundraiser?

Excerpts from this story referencing "California":

"… it hurried to approve an energy loan guarantee to a politically-connected California solar power startup, iWatch News and ABC News have learned.The Energy Depa …"

"… s pick up the tab if the borrower defaults.At groundbreaking, Chu and then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger were on hand. “This announcement today is par …"

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