08.31.2009 9:03 pm

Utilities shouldn’t use payday lenders as collection agents.

Photo by Candiche via Flickr.com

Sending the poor to pay utility bills at a payday lender is like sending the hungry for a meal in a shark tank.
It’s the worst kind of business synergy. Missouri utility regulators should halt the practice.
Payday…

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10.13.2008 11:00 pm

MINK column: “The Choice” profiles McCain and Obama

By Eric Mink

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

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I didn’t know that when Barack Obama was elected president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990, he named more student members of the ultra-conservative Federalist Society to top editor jobs at The Review than he named African-American law…

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Utilities shouldn’t use payday lenders as collection agents.

MINK column: “The Choice” profiles McCain and Obama

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