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wifr.com | Jake Pearson
DeKalb, Ill. (WIFR) - Encouraging artists to celebrate the 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence, the city of DeKalb is looking for help transforming fire hydrants into works of art. Applications are open for the 2025 Paint-A-Plug program, through the city of DeKalb and its Citizens’ Community Enhancement Commission. Through Paint-A-Plug, artists from the stateline are encouraged to paint a fire hydrant and transform it into a work of art. Paint-A-Plug began in 2017.
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2 weeks ago |
propublica.org | Jake Pearson |Joel Jacobs |Byard Duncan |Corey Johnson
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Connecticut Mirror. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. This year, the head of Connecticut’s Department of Motor Vehicles made a startling public admission, telling lawmakers that the agency, which regulates the towing industry, has never enforced a century-old law meant to protect drivers whose cars are towed.
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3 weeks ago |
news-journal.com | Jake Pearson
Since the Trump administration moved to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month, the bureau has dropped nine lawsuits that it had brought on behalf of consumers. The actions effectively freed major financial firms like Capital One and the mortgage giant Rocket Homes from the threat of consequences for their alleged significant wrongdoing, shocking consumer advocates and raising questions about the future of America’s consumer watchdog.
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4 weeks ago |
nationalmortgageprofessional.com | Jake Pearson
Since the Trump administration moved to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month, the bureau has dropped nine lawsuits that it had brought on behalf of consumers. The actions effectively freed major financial firms like Capital One and the mortgage giant Rocket Homes from the threat of consequences for their alleged significant wrongdoing, shocking consumer advocates and raising questions about the future of America’s consumer watchdog.
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propublica.org | Molly Parker |Jake Pearson |Joshua Kaplan |Justin Elliott
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. CARBONDALE, Ill. — I grew up off a gravel road near a town of 60 people, a place where cows outnumber people. Southern Illinois University, just 40 miles north, opened up my world.
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NOT DEAD YET: Judge revives CFPB for now, says there’s “substantial risk” wo court ruling that Trump appointees will kill off agency “completely in violation of law well before the court can rule on the merits, and it will be impossible to rebuild.” https://t.co/q1oIHYlCJS
NEWSWORTHY: A DHS staffer is on administrative leave and is likely to lose security clearance after inadvertently including a reporter from a “conservative Washington-based print publication” on internal, “unclassified” email re: an ICE raid in Denver. @JuliaEAinsley
The episode, which has not been previously reported, raises questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers in the Trump administration https://t.co/7PnFfyBv11
RT @AASchapiro: Last year, Marc Andreessen went on Rogan & accused the Consumer Fin Protection Bureau of terrorizing tech firms. It turns…