Credit unions remake themselves in image of payday lenders

By Ben Hallman

Credit unions remake themselves in image of payday lenders

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"… rom a modest 12 percent with no fees at State Employees’ Credit Union in North Carolina to the high triple-digits loans sold by Mountain America. It has become a …"

"… it unions have closed since 2009. Thomas Glatt, an industry consultant in North Carolina, said that his analysis of financial reports suggests that 700 mostly smal …"

Mexican tobacco growers: Economically shunned by industry, still used as lobbyists

By Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

Big Tobacco cultivates more people, less land, in Mexico

Excerpts from this story referencing "North Carolina":

"… ; he was getting ready for a long summer and fall in the United States, in North Carolina and Kentucky. His bet was that the vitamin-enriched serum he was absorbing …"

"… rrano is a labor contractor for the U.S. Tobacco Growers’ Association of North Carolina. He was about to embark on a series of cross-border work trips with 2,500 …"

"… bus headed for the U.S. His tours north of the border usually take him to North Carolina. There, he said, he’ll stay from four to seven months, working up to 14 …"

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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"… eral found in 2008.In 1999, an inspection at the Shearon Harris reactor in North Carolina turned up more problems with Hemyc. Plant engineers couldn’t prove to NR …"

"… ord Nuclear Generating Station in Louisiana and McGuire Nuclear Station in North Carolina, came up with similar doubts about the product’s performance. That promp …"

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Climate facts — and fancy

By Chris Hamby

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

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"… e CO2 [carbon dioxide] does not contribute to climate change.”  And North Carolina Republican Virginia Foxx referenced books by climate-change skeptics and l …"

'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 "North Carolina":

"… .”That deferral comes as health organizations have raised red flags. The North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians said the “burning of poultry litter and woo …"

"… been mounting against others proposed.Critics rally to “debunk biomass”North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League this year launched a multi-sta …"

Analysis – Insurers’ cynical calculations on the cost of doing business

By Wendell Potter

Insurers are punished for misbehavior all the time, but almost no one notices and the firms see the penalties as the cost of doing business.

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"… ably are not aware that CIGNA, my last employer, was fined $600,000 by the North Carolina Department of Insurance earlier this week for, among other things, not cha …"

"… pany will have to shell out several hundred thousand dollars in refunds to North Carolina employers whom regulators say were charged too much over a three-year peri …"

"… argest being a $1.8 million fine in 2003 against Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina for underpaying claims for emergency care. The news about the CIGNA fine w …"

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Geithner's threat to tap congressional retirement funds rings hollow

By John Aloysius Farrell

Don't worry if Treasury is tapping the G Fund; it'll be paid back in full

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"… would save $114 billion over 10 years.”Republican Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma have introduced legislation that would abolish …"

Political inaction committees: How political action committees are spending your donations

By Josh Israel, Aaron Mehta and Gabriel Debenedetti

Jay Peters is a psychology instructor at a Durham, North Carolina, community college who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to conserv

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"… tributed to this report. …"

"… r aide’s legal bills.McHenry, 34, was elected to Congress in the western North Carolina 10th District in 2004. Two years later, he formed More Conservatives PAC ( …"

Advice on the 'bailout bonanza' from a controversial pitchman

By Nick Schwellenbach and Aaron Mehta

Meet Fred Steinberg. He “will personally outline what you must know for your company to prosper under the ‘new capitalism’ emerging from Wa

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"… contracts between Boyd’s TV Guy Orlando and Fort Bragg, an Army base in North Carolina beginning in 2008 and continuing into 2009.Steinberg has not responded to …"

Ghost soldiers

By Mark Benjamin and Barbara Slavin

The Pentagon sent ill-equipped and poorly trained reservists into harm's way as it scrambled to fill Civil Affairs units to rebuild Iraq and

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"… to Fort Bragg, she said.“I don’t know what kind of training he got in North Carolina,” she said. She does recall that Morrison told her that just before they …"

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