Op-Ed: Council should heed the red flags from Chicago
A bad deal with no way out. This is the parking situation in Chicago, post-privatization. This could be Cincinnati’s future, if we allow City Council to follow in Chicago’s footsteps.
View ArticleFirst ever Democracy Day draws wide array of opinions in Brecksville
BRECKSVILLE - The first Democracy Day town hall meeting allowed for the exchange of a wide variety of ideas about the issue of whether or not a 28th amendment to the Constitution is necessary.
View ArticleCompany that would oversee parking meters had trouble in other cities
CINCINNATI - A company on track to assume control of Cincinnati’s parking meters was the subject of a blistering audit in 2007 for its performance managing meters in Washington, D.C.
View ArticleParking Meter Company's Past Problems Resurface
The company that would operate Cincinnati’s parking meters if the city passes its controversial parking plan this week was mired with audited problems and complaints in the past. The issues surfaced...
View ArticleCordray, bureau deserve support from senators
It is time for Cordray’s opponents to back off and let the CFPB do its job.
View ArticleBipartisan support growing for Brown plan to breakup large banks
WASHINGTON — During the final days of intense debate in 2010 over a bill aimed at preventing another financial meltdown such as the one in 2008, Sen. Sherrod Brown pressed for an amendment that would...
View ArticleCredit Bureaus’ Deal to Improve Accuracy ‘Huge’ for Consumers
(Bloomberg) -- Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest U.S. consumer credit reporting services with New York.[...] “It’s a sea change in...
View ArticleHow Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score
This story in The Nation explains our work challenging the way data brokers use "black box," or secret, algorithms to make scoring decisions that may violate the law and deny credit opportunities. This...
View Article12 of America's Biggest Highway Boondoggles
Given that expanding highways at great public cost doesn’t improve rush-hour traffic, there are better ways to spend this money, argue report authors Jeff Inglis of Frontier Group and John C. Olivieri...
View ArticleLATimes: Obama's consumer protection legacy defined by aggressive agency
[This weekend, the Los Angele Times chronicled President Obama's consumer protection record, with heavy emphasis on the history and fight over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB):]"[...]...
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