Texas Payday Lenders Charging Even More in Fees
by Forrest Wilder / Posted on | 5 CommentsA new report finds that Texas payday lenders are making fewer loans but raking in even more in fees, about $1.4 billion in 2013.
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Have You Ever Seen Dallas from a Bullet Train at Night? Someday You Might.
by Natalie Krebs / Posted on | 6 CommentsTexas Central Railway, a private, for-profit Texas-based company, claims it can finance and build a high-speed rail line from Houston to Dallas by 2020.
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Rick Perry Wasted $40 Million on Toyota
by Forrest Wilder / Posted on | 15 CommentsRick Perry gave Toyota $40 million to relocate to Texas from California but a company executive says Toyota was coming anyway.
Read full post The Future of ‘Corporate Welfare’ in Texas after Rick Perry
by Forrest Wilder / Posted on | 11 CommentsLegislators are considering what to do with Rick Perry’s big corporate subsidy funds that have been plagued by charges of cronyism and inefficiency.
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This Week in Upside-Down World: Payday Lenders Upset about ‘Special Interests’
by Forrest Wilder / Posted on | 2 CommentsNot content to employ an army of former lawmakers and staffers, payday lenders are upset that
“special interests” are saying mean things about them.
Believe in the ‘Texas Miracle’ But Trust in Facts
by Forrest Wilder / Posted on | 4 CommentsGov. Rick Perry and others say Texas enjoy a “miracle” economy. But small businesses and poor and middle-income Texans pay taxes higher than much of the nation, argues Phillip Longman in Washington Monthly.
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American Media Misses the Story on Mexican Oil Reform
by Shannon Young / Posted on | No CommentsMexico is opening its oil industry to foreign investment. But energy reform is unpopular with Mexicans, who fear that oil companies will benefit while corruption will remain.
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Triple D Security Settles Suit Over Deadly 2010 Wreck
by Patrick Michels / Posted on | No CommentsA lawsuit over the on-the-job death of Ray Wauson, a 24-year-old guard with Triple D Security, revealed dramatic details about the dangers Triple D’s drivers confronted every day.
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Welcome to the Drone Star State
by Brad Tyer / Posted on | 3 CommentsAt Corpus Christi’s celebration of the launch of a new drone industry, the word “drone” was conspicuously absent.
Read full post How the Payday Loan Industry Works Regulators from the Inside
by Forrest Wilder / Posted on | 4 CommentsTexas Finance Commission Chairman William White and his company, Cash America, have been intimately involved in trying to undermine the efforts of Texas’ big cities to regulate payday and auto-title loans at the municipal level, documents show.
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