Payday loans hurt Texans in rising debt trap
The Texas outlook shows payday and auto title lenders charging higher loan fees and keeping borrowers in debt longer than in 2012. Community Loan Center in Brownsville offers $1000 one-year loans with payroll deductions and $20 fee, yielding about 5 percent default. Credit unions test payroll deduction savings. Activehours lets advance pay via app. Cities like Dallas, Austin regulate predatory lending. CFPB fined Ace Cash Express and Cash America for lending practices.
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Center For Public Policy Priorities
Brownsville
Community Loan Center
Activehours
IR the Know
Lawmakers contact details for Texas representatives
A roster of federal officials and office addresses for U S Rep Mike Conaway Randy Neugebauer Pete Gallego and Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, with office addresses in Midland Odessa Lubbock Alpine and Washington and contact methods including phones faxes and emails. The list provides district and senate offices and official channels for constituents.
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Mike Conaway
Republican
Midland
Rayburn House
Washington
D.C
Odessa
Eighth St
Desta Drive
Suite
Conaway
House
Randy Neugebauer
Lubbock
Longworth
Fox
Randy
WLS
Pete Gallego
Alpine
Cannon House
Gallego
John Cornyn
Hart Senate
Washington, D.C
Cornyn
Senate
Ted Cruz
Dirksen Senate
Cruz
Parents blame teens and parents after 16-year-old Camaro crash
A reader criticizes parent responsibility following a 16-year-old driving a 2014 Camaro into a Roger Street house after police ceased pursuit on Dixie. The letter recalls personal driving history, argues high horsepower requires parental limits, and urges youths start with older cars to learn value and accountability. It also notes a correction about Susan Graham Day in Midland, detailing origins and sponsors.
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Roger Street
Dixie
Chevy
Graham Day
Midland
Susan Graham Day
Gene Hardy
Edith Libson-Hardy
Midland Opera Theater
Susan
Obama could learn from Perry energy push
Opinion piece argues President Obama should imitate Texas Governor Perry by using campaign style outreach and ads to boost US coal sales abroad and domestic energy policy. Claims Germany's nuclear phaseout boosts coal reliance and suggests Keystone pipeline to improve rail and energy security.
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Rick Perry
California
Illinois
Connecticut
New York
Perry
Obama
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U.S
Jochen Homann
Federal Network Agency
Reuters
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United Nations
WSJ
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America
Jerry Brown
Toyota
Mid land Rock hounds win Texas League championship
Readers offer thumbs up to the Midland RockHounds for clinching the Texas League title. Editors invite comment on current topics with a thumbs nomination process via email.
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Midland Rockhounds
Odessa
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