The bill would have curtailed the power of the incoming Democratic county executive, Adam Bello.
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Predatory loans: on borrowed time?
In the late 1980s, when Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura teamed up for the film Predator, America was deregulating and otherwise fantasizing its way into economic trouble. Soon enough, ordinary working people spied some monsters among the dollar signs. One was called consumer debt, with credit-card marketers getting top billing. There are stealth predators, […]
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Farm bill: mostly fertilizer
With the recent passage of the Farm Bill — a monster package of federal subsidies covering the next six to 10 years — Congress has shoveled billions upon billions of dollars, largely where they aren’t needed. The conservative American Farm Bureau Federation is pleased, however. “Prompt implementation of the Farm Bill is imperative,” says […]
