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Thursday, April 14, 2016
Spotlight (2015)
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
POTD: Bucket List
From 2016 02 05 Agra |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from Agra, India, where someone checked off a high-value item on her lifelong bucket list. The visit was every bit as delightful as she had hoped.
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
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Monday, April 11, 2016
Finally, Cracking Down on Payday Lending
Not the official campaign HQ of Rep. Pete Sessions |
Payday lenders like CashAmerica and ACE Cash Express often make loans with annual percentage rates of 350 percent or more. They prey on the poor, trapping borrowers in debt they can never pay off. Sixty percent of borrowers are repeat borrowers who string together loan after loan, using the proceeds of the next loan to pay off the last.
But help is on the way. Finally.
Friday, April 8, 2016
POTD: Every Which Way
From 2016 02 05 Agra |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from a street in Agra, India. The automobile hasn't taken over the streets in that country — yet. There's still room for auto-rickshaws, motorbikes, bicycles, pedestrians, even cows. I wouldn't recommend it as an urban planning ideal, but neither do I recommend, say, Central Expressway as an urban planning ideal.
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