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Consumer Advocate: Shopping tips for Buy Now, Pay Later loans

Buy Now, Pay Later loans are becoming a popular way to buy large items with bite-sized payments. BNPL is a type of loan that allows consumers to take their item home immediately while paying for it in bi-weekly installments. The pandemic created an eCommerce boom, giving even more of a platform ...

OPINION: What’s causing changes in college enrollments?

Traditional college enrollments among high school students are on the decline. Online enrollments for working adult learners, though, are up. Way up. Why is that?“May you live in interesting times,” I once heard someone say. For those of us following college enrollment trends, the times are ...

Eye on the Pie: The Goldilocks questions

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution declares the intent of the document: “to form a more perfect Union.” They weren’t talking about labor organizations.Fragmentation was a major issue faced by the Founding Fathers. Political fragmentation of the 13 contentious states — not the human ...

Leo Morris: Beware ‘The next big thing’

I’m so old that I remember when the Establishment set the rules, and rebels tried to break them. Now, we seem to be embarked on a great experiment in which the former rebels are in charge and determined to get rid of all the rules.Sometimes, I think the experiment is to see how outrageous the ...

April 13 – Eye on the Pie: Terre Haute — celebrating now, hoping for later

A new convention facility is stirring hopes in Terre Haute for economic expansion. New downtown visitors and new businesses are foreseen in conjunction with the realization of a casino. The band is practicing, “There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight.”Once upon a time, Terre Haute ...

Letter to the editor

Dear Editor:May elections are nearing. I am writing in hopes many will get out and vote for change.This article is for anyone who has interacted with the current and past Leo town Council, including surrounding communities. Have you had a concern, but received an answer from Leo town Council ...

Consumer Advocate: Be careful with crypto donations

With donations to Ukrainian causes rising – scammers aren’t very far behind. The Ukrainian government has been accepting cryptocurrency as a form of donation, but with the uncertainty and confusion behind cryptocurrency and the war in Ukraine, scammers have quickly latched on to this ...

April 13 – Leo Morris: We can trust ourselves

In the current political context, I am more traditional than progressive, although with a few liberal skeletons in my conservative closet.But in my philosophical soul, I am a libertarian, with a fervent belief in individual rights and a tolerance for only the minimum government necessary to ...