Regulatory brawl over debit cards sidesteps the real fee-setters: card companies

By Amy Biegelsen

Lobbying brawl sidesteps the real fee-setters: card companies

Excerpts from this story referencing "Wal-Mart":

"… , Inc. Over the past decade, the Justice Departmentand mega-merchants like Wal-Mart have won concessions on grounds that Visa and MasterCard’s behavior has …"

"… case, the two card companies reached a $3 billion settlement in 2003 with Wal-Mart and other plaintiffs. As part of the deal, Visa and Master Credit agreed t …"

Back to school for the billionaires

By Rita Beamish

Business titans find reforming schools much harder than just writing checks

Excerpts from this story referencing "Wal-Mart":

"… omputer magnate Michael Dell, investor Eli Broad, and the Walton family of Wal-Mart fame have collectively poured some $4.4 billion into school reform in the …"

The climate lobbyists

By Matthew Lewis

A sampling of power players

Excerpts from this story referencing "Wal-Mart":

"… int PLM Group, headed by former Rep. Toby Moffett (D-CT). Climate clients: Wal-Mart, BP America, Sunoco, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management Distri …"

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Congressman takes swipe at program to reduce Medicare fraud

By Naseem Miller and Joe Eaton

As health reform bills consume Congress, a battle over a program designed to help cut soaring rates of Medicare overpayment and fraud is pla

Excerpts from this story referencing "Wal-Mart":

"… pment manufacturers and associations to the retail companies CVS Caremark, Wal-Mart, and Target.Considering the stakes, Paul Precht, spokesman for the Medicar …"

Residents and developers battle to a draw in Bucks County

By Joe Eaton

Residents and developers battle to a draw in Bucks County

Excerpts from this story referencing "Wal-Mart":

"… an says the growth changed the township’s culture. “The pressure for a Wal-Mart comes exclusively from people who just moved in and probably won’t be he …"

Exporting an epidemic

By Jim Morris

Human toll reaches millions as asbestos industry expands worldwide

Excerpts from this story referencing "Wal-Mart":

"… trial city on the western flank of Sao Paulo, the past is buried beneath a Wal-Mart Supercenter and a Sam's Club at the intersection of Avenida MariaCampos an …"

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Little-known Texas patron guided Bush policies on vouchers, tort reform

By Kathryn Wallace

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2000 — Only three days after Texas Governor George W. Bush was inaugurated in 1995, he declared the state of the Texas

Excerpts from this story referencing "Wal-Mart":

"… hief executive officer of the Indiana-based Golden Rule Insurance Co., and Wal-Mart heir John Walton.Leininger got the idea of getting involved in vouchers fr …"

Bankers take debit fee duel to friendly territory in House

By Julie Vorman

Bankers dueling with retailers over a Federal Reserve plan to limit debit card processing fees took the fight into friendly territory today

Excerpts from this story referencing "Wal-Mart":

"… in the world” and hurt small family-owned stores as well as giants like Wal-Mart, Welch said. Welch’s largest political contributors are mostly labor uni …"

Reform reading: JPMorgan CEO not embarrassed to be banker

By Julie Vorman

A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law....

Excerpts from this story referencing "Wal-Mart":

"… arrassed to be a banker” and sees his institution as a kind of financial Wal-Mart that sells products ranging from mortgages to credit cards to commercial l …"

Wal-Mart’s mysterious missing exit signs: A tritium health risk?

By Marina Walker Guevara

What do Home Depot, the Mormon Church, and the U.S. Coast Guard have in common? Answer: Radioactivity. According to the Nuclear Regulatory

Excerpts from this story referencing "Wal-Mart":

"… its way into our drinking water. The NRC was prompted to step in following Wal-Mart’s recent disclosure that 15,000 tritium exit signs have mysteriously dis …"

"… rovide emergency light and direction during evacuations.From 2001 to 2007, Wal-Mart bought 70,000 tritium exit signs to install in its stores and warehouses, …"

"… ng such levels of tritium,” read a DEP letter to the NRC.Daphne Moore, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman, said the company has replaced all its tritium exit signs with …"

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