Credit card charges under fire by congressional panel
Washington lawmaker Frank Annunzio discusses usury problems in credit card practices. Victims like Robert Thomas and Frank Windisch describe delayed billing and average daily balance calculations that inflate interest. Annunzio proposes ending late mailing, average daily balance, and other tactics. hearings begin Sept. 20.
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Erie paupers’ graves haunt plan for industrial park
In Erie, Pennsylvania, a long-forgotten graveyard of more than 600 paupers buried 1878 to 1918 under the Erie County Poorhouse is being reopened. Reporter Jeff Pinski uncovered a handwritten burial register and a tale of vanished markers, leading to a county probe and grave finder Robert Schueler using a divining rod to locate buried remains for relocation to clear land for Rob Ferrier’s proposed industrial park.
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