Oshawa, Ontario For a change, big data seems to have been enlisted in a good fight rather than for spying on us or selling politicians and schlock. With the recent action of the state legislature Alabama became the thirteenth state along with Illinois and Florida to require payday lenders to report their customers to a …
Month: September 2013
Senate is Unanimous: Shut Up!
New York Finally, we have found an issue where the entire United States Senate is unanimous: Ted Cruz has to shut up! After wasting more than 21 hours on a Tea Party ego-trip rant about health insurance, Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, where there are 5 million uninsured, even voted, bizarrely, to silence himself. This …
Will We Finally Win Justice from Lead Paint Manufacturers?
New Orleans In 1978 paint companies were barred in the United States from using lead in paint used in homes, yet for 35 years paint companies, including the giants like Sherwin-Williams, have successfully avoided having to take any real responsibility for poisoning so many. Worse, ACORN International has found repeated evidence that some of these …