Little Rock There was an interesting piece in the paper about what one commentator jokingly referred to as a “hot bank on bank” story based on First American Bank of Chicago going public and shaming Bank of America and Mastercard for not shutting down and issuing warnings about taxicab machines that were perpetrating debit card …
Month: March 2014
Do We Need a New Party to Turn Texas Blue?
Dallas With the results of the recent primary elections in Texas, perhaps it is time to look at the progress of Battleground Texas and the notion of “turning Texas blue,” as the Democrats call it. The hope in a nutshell is essentially that “demographics are destiny.” Robert Draper in the Texas Monthly summed it …
Expanding Post Offices into Financial Services
Houston The United States Postal Service is looking for a way to become more self-sufficient in an era where email has increasingly replaced stamped letters and bills more than love letters flood mailboxes. In a recent report, they have suggested that providing financial services to the “underserved” might be the ticket, and I for one …