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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…
Missouri Senate Chamber
The walls are made of marble, topped by 16 Ionic columns. The ceiling soars 50 feet above the floor. Everything about the Missouri Senate chamber reeks of dignity and statesmanship — everything except the people who sit in it.
The…
Missouri Public Service Commissioner Jeff Davis is a walking conflict of interest. Since 2005, he’s been involved in four incidents that raise questions about his objectivity and that of the utility regulatory body on which he serves.
In a tearful 2007 interview…
In the general election of 2000, the full impact of the term limits Missouri voters had imposed on their state Legislature eight years earlier kicked in. Ninety of the 163 members of the Missouri House elected in 2000 were freshmen.…
Jeff Davis helped engineer a deal that resulted in a blatantly anti-consumer utility law in 2005.
He helped write the rules that dictate how the law can be used to fatten utility company bottom lines.
And when one of those utilities files a…
