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  • Beaverton, Chicago Mayors Clash Over Business February 8, 2010
    BEAVERTON, Ore. -- The mayors of Beaverton and Chicago are feuding over which state is best for business.On Jan. 28, Mayor Richard Daley told the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper that he's recruiting Orego... […]
  • Detailed Work Begins on Vandalized North Oregon Coast Lighthouse February 8, 2010
    (Cape Meares, Oregon) - Specialists who work with historic lighthouse lenses and on historic structures descended on the Cape Meares Lighthouse to evaluate damaged caused by vandalism January 9 and 10... […]
  • Ore. traffic stop nets $282K in marijuana February 8, 2010
    KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon State Police say a trooper who stopped a car in southern Oregon for several traffic violations found more than a quarter million dollars worth of marijuana neatly pa... […]
  • Car dangles from parking garage; driver OK February 8, 2010
    MILWAUKIE, Ore. (AP) -- Clackamas County officials say an 83-year-old man accidentally crashed his car through a concrete wall of a parking garage, leaving the car dangling on the edge of the second f... […]
  • E Coast Storm Strands Teachers; Cancels School February 8, 2010
    SALEM, Ore. -- There wasn't any snow on the ground, but a blizzard canceled classes Monday at one Salem school.The teaching staff and principal from Western Mennonite School were stranded in a record-... […]

RSS NYT > Payday Loans

  • The Places They Go When Banks Say No January 30, 2010
    As traditional banks have spurned small businesses, many have turned to firms that provide a relatively expensive alternative: purchase-order financing. […]
  • These Rates Would Shock a Loan Shark November 24, 2009
    At consumer debt court, high interest rates are the norm, but they are not illegal. That could change, though, if a new effort bears fruit. […]
  • Banks Balk at Agency Meant to Aid Consumers June 30, 2009
    The administration’s proposal for the new agency marks the first shot in a battle over how to regulate home mortgages, credit cards and other forms of lending. […]
  • Pay Pals June 9, 2009
    Senator Christopher Dodd should go after, not cozy up to, the payday-loan industry for its egregious exploitation of people’s desperation. […]
  • Lenders Thwart Ohio Law Intended to Limit High Interest on Payday Loans April 15, 2009
    Despite a law capping the annual interest rate for short-term loans at 28 percent, some lenders are using different laws to charge up to 680 percent interest. […]
  • 391 Percent Payday Loan April 12, 2009
    Congress should resist an ersatz reform that would allow lenders to continue to charge exorbitant interest rates on payday loans. […]
  • LETTERS; Check Cashers, Redeemed November 22, 2008
    Four letters on Douglas McGray's Nov 9 article on check-cashing services and payday loans; writers are Jose Cisneros, treasurer of city and county of San Francisco, Joseph Coleman, chairman of Financial Service Centers of America, Liana Molina of California Reinvestment Coalition and Donald M Seib […]
  • Check Cashers, Redeemed November 8, 2008
    Many low-income Americans were wary of banks even before the latest round of failures and takeovers. Is a semi-reformed payday lender the right guy to bring the urban poor into the banking system? […]
  • Mailing Our Way to Solvency October 5, 2008
    The United States should go back to using the one government institution that is found in most neighborhoods the post office as local savings bank. […]
  • Some States Set Caps to Control Payday Loans September 7, 2008
    To aid borrowers, Ohio lawmakers push for new regulations capping payday loans. […]