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

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"… fficials were surprised when two Indian tribes, the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska and the Miami Nation of Oklahoma, intervened in the case, claiming that th …"

"… mpany, SFS Inc., explained that it was owned by the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska and that it made loans under the trade names One Click Cash and Preferred …"

A more likely nuclear nightmare

By Susan Q. Stranahan

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

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"… are most concerned about.” The other two are the Fort Calhoun reactor in Nebraska and Wolf Creek in Kansas, where emergency systems to keep reactors cool ha …"

Analysis — Insurers lobbying on the fine print may erase consumer protections

By Wendell Potter

One of the provisions of the health reform law that insurers hate most requires that they spend at least 80 percent of what we pay them in p

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"… s members. On the other side of the Capitol, Ben Nelson, a Democrat from Nebraska, has signaled that he will help lead an effort to change the law in the Se …"

"… e. Nelson is a former insurance company executive who previously served as Nebraska’s insurance commissioner. Getting Congress to pretend broker commi …"

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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

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"… apan.Nine states — Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, and Washington — do not participate in the federal program admin …"

"… Ricca said. His comments were echoed by officials from Texas, Washington, Nebraska and Arkansas.In Kansas, KI pills are stocked for emergency workers and for …"

The buying of the presidential debates

By Josh Israel

This year’s presidential debates will be brought to you by beer, technology outsourcing, and bottled water, among others. The Commission on

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"… r William Buffett, he was a Republican elected official in Douglas County, Nebraska, but has given at least $1,000 to the Obama campaign. The Howard G. Buffet …"

Federal bureaucracy dismisses most Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower claims

By Michael Hudson

Whistleblower protections passed after the Enron accounting scandal have been largely gutted by the federal bureaucracy responsible for prot

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"… ection.Richard Moberly, an associate professor of law at the University of Nebraska who has studied Sarbanes-Oxley’s whistleblower provisions, notes that si …"

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States are battleground in drive to regulate lawsuit funding

By Caitlin Ginley

The latest story in the Center's "Betting on Justice" series about the fast-growing litigation finance industry looks at lobbying efforts in

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"… the lenders can charge.Maine passed this type of law in 2008, followed by Nebraska last year. Sympathetic legislators introduced bills in six other states la …"

Health industry gave millions to state officials involved in lawsuit

By Caitlin Ginley

The state officials who joined together to file a lawsuit challenging health care reform have collectively received at least $5 million in c

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"… ster, attorney general of South Carolina; Jon Bruning, attorney general of Nebraska; Greg Abbott, attorney general of Texas; Mark L. Shurtleff, attorney gener …"

A most favored corporation: Enron prevailed in federal, state lobbying efforts 49 times

By M. Asif Ismail

WASHINGTON, January 6, 2003 — Enron Corp., which ran a formidable lobbying machine in Washington and state capitals, gained favorable treatm

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"… ssued a regulatory order to implement retail access. All the states except Nebraska have considered restructuring at some point, according to Channele Carner, …"

Club 100: Over 100 Americans gave more than $100,000 to state political parties

By Robert Moore

WASHINGTON, November 21, 2002 — Political party organizations will never do business quite the same way again. ...

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"… orth Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Jersey and Nebraska.And some big donors made single contributions to party committees of state …"

"… ects and sells business and demographic information. He contributed to the Nebraska Democratic Party.67. John McGovern – $110,000McGovern, a retired physici …"

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