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 "Kansas":

"… ere headquartered in an office complex in Overland Park, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City. Other than mailboxes on Indian land, James said, there was nothing t …"

"… ditional fees.The Better Business Bureau, which lists addresses in Nevada, Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma for Ameriloan, reports that the lender has received …"

A more likely nuclear nightmare

By Susan Q. Stranahan

A more probable nuclear power threat than quake or tsunami: recurring fires

Excerpts from this story referencing "Kansas":

"… The other two are the Fort Calhoun reactor in Nebraska and Wolf Creek in Kansas, where emergency systems to keep reactors cool had failed.Robinson will be …"

Fact Check: Obama releases long-form birth certificate to try to satisfy critics

By FactCheck.Org

FACT CHECK: Obama releases long-form birth certificate to quell birthers

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"… the president has said. And it lists his mother’s birthplace as Wichita, Kansas, and his father’s as Kenya, East Africa. The certificate is also signed …"

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Campaign cash: The independent fundraising gold rush since 'Citizens United' ruling

By Peter H. Stone

For many powerful GOP operatives and allied fundraisers, the luncheon last April felt like one part reunion and one part strategy summit for

Excerpts from this story referencing "Kansas":

"… a 501(c)(4) that’s closely linked to David Koch, the co-chairman of the Kansas-based energy giant Koch Industries. David Koch, who earlier this year gave …"

Blue Dogs, decimated by defeats and retirements, turn to lobbying shops

By Aaron Mehta

A third of Blue Dog congress members who left office in January are now on K Street

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"… ttractive to lobbying firms, Professor Burdett Loomis of the University of Kansas said that the Blue Dogs also cultivated ties with lobbyists. “I think th …"

No guarantees at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

By John Solomon

Last November, the federal corporation charged with protecting Americans’ retirement funds issued an ominous public warning: the amount of p

Excerpts from this story referencing "Kansas":

"… e to plug leaks so bad things don’t happen.”Added Snowbarger, a former Kansas congressman who joined the corporation during the Bush administration: “ …"

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Some lawmakers sold BP, transocean stock

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and at least three other federal lawmakers have sold their holdings in companies tied to the Gulf of Mexico

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"… 6/16/10 5:00 PM: The office of Sen. Sam Brownback told the Center that the Kansas Republican and his wife sold their BP shares a little over a month ago. Br …"

Blue Dogs fill their bowls with cash

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

Whether the subject is health care reform, climate change, or pay-as-you-go budgeting rules, almost everyone, it seems, suddenly wants to ta

Excerpts from this story referencing "Kansas":

"… y clear. A recently published study by Burdett Loomis of the University of Kansas observed that though Blue Dogs “have centrist tendencies,” in recent y …"

Justice Dept. gun-tracking program should share more info with other police agencies

By Laurel Adams

A Justice Department program to help reduce drug cartel violence along the U.S. border found 90 percent of guns smuggled into Mexico came fr

Excerpts from this story referencing "Kansas":

"… and Security Dept. wants to create a National Bio- and Agro-Defense lab in Kansas to study dangerous foreign animal diseases, like the highly contagious foo …"

Nine states don’t deploy radiation safeguards

By John Aloysius Farrell and Laurel Adams

Critics in Congress question state claims that quick evacuations make iodine pills unnecessary; Japan is distributing iodine to people in th

Excerpts from this story referencing "Kansas":

"… diation crisis like that in Japan.Nine states — ArKansas, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, and Washington — do not participa …"

"… were echoed by officials from Texas, Washington, Nebraska and ArKansas.In Kansas, KI pills are stocked for emergency workers and for “special populations …"

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