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Congress tackles payday lenders after SCOTUS lets them off the hook April 29, 2021 11:03 AM CDT By PAI
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, veteran Illinois Democrat, is leading the charge in Congress to correct the damage done by a Supreme Court decision that allows payday lenders off the hook for scamming customers. | AP photos
WASHINGTON Well, that didn’t take long.
A week after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously handed one of the sleaziest sectors of the corporate class, payday lenders, a big judicial win, lawmakers took up the suggestion by the ruling’s author, Justice Stephen Breyer, that they could reverse the victory.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Industry at Night, by Horatio C. Forjohn, c. 1940. Smithsonian American Art Museum, transfer from the General Services Administration.
Most discussions of fatigue at the turn of the twentieth century begin with neurasthenia (from a Greek term meaning nervous exhaustion), the diagnosis popularized by neurologist George M. Beard in 1869. Like other physicians at the time, Beard viewed the body as a machine powered by energy produced by the nerves. The depletion of that energy resulted in the condition he called neurasthenia. Although sufferers reported an array of vague symptoms, including irritability, weight loss, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impotence, fatigue was the most important and rest a commonly prescribed remedy. We tend to assume we live in a time of unprecedented and overwhelming social and technological change. In the late nineteenth century, similar anxieties were provoked by the advent of telephones, telegraphs, trains, and what contemp
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West Chicago High s 2020 LifeSmarts Team places 7th in national competition West Chicago LifeSmarts players representing Illinois are getting ready for an early round of competition. They are: David Kuehn (top row, second from left), Sean Slattery (fourth row, third from left), and David Fatheree (bottom row, fourth from left). Courtesy of West Chicago High School District 94
Updated 4/26/2021 11:48 AM
A year ago, the student team from West Chicago Community High School captured the 2020 Illinois state LifeSmarts title, earning the chance to compete for the national title at an event which was subsequently postponed due to the pandemic. The rescheduled event took place virtually on April 17. West Chicago returned to battle against 23 other state champion teams for the national title and finished in seventh place. This teams best performance of the tournament was their victory over Florida 180-50.
This was the first time in JHS history that a team won the national championship. Written By: Kathy Steiner | ×
The Jamestown High School 2020 LifeSmarts team won the national championship on Monday, April 19. The event was postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Jamestown team had won the North Dakota LifeSmarts to advance to the national event, which was held virtually. The four team members are, from left, Jessie Paulson, Chris Sayler, Jarron Larson, captain, and Garret Wright. Kathy Steiner / The Sun
It was a long time coming but it was worth the wait.
The Jamestown High School LifeSmarts team from 2020 won the National LifeSmarts Championship on Monday, the first time in JHS history that one of its teams won the event.