This week for BuzzFeed News, Kendall Taggart and Alex Campbell uncover how Texas traffic courts flout the law by jailing people too poor to pay fines. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.
In Texas It's a Crime to Be Poor — BuzzFeed News
People in Texas get thrown behind bars just because they can’t afford their traffic tickets. That’s a disaster for people who are already struggling. It’s also completely against the law. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
Photograph by Steven St. John For BuzzFeed News
Here's How Uber Beat the Las Vegas Taxi Industry — BuzzFeed News
Johana Bhuiyan uncovers how the Las Vegas taxi industry used every political maneuver in its arsenal to keep Uber and Lyft off the strip — and why it didn’t work. "In Las Vegas, Uber and its pugnacious CEO Travis Kalanick really did run into the corrupt taxi cartel bogeymen that they had long claimed to be saving us from...But when push came to shove and the fight turned ugly, the world’s fastest-growing company ran right over its entrenched opposition." Read it at BuzzFeed News.
Photo illustration by Jared Harrell / BuzzFeed News; Photos: Getty images (4)
How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40 Million — Bloomberg Businessweek
Zeke Faux bros out with "semiretired" best friends Abe Zeines and Meir Hurwitz, two former Orthodox Jews who cashed in big on the lucrative business of merchant cash advances, yet feel their returns are diminishing. “It’s a matter of time before we get involved with something else...We can’t sit around and golf and f--- beautiful ladies all day.” Read it at Bloomberg Businessweek.
Photograph by Christopher Gregory for Bloomberg Businessweek
Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com — East Bay Express
Nextdoor.com, a social networking site for neighborhoods, has grown exponentially in recent years, allowing neighbors to swap updates about everything from community meetings, to furniture sales, to babysitters. But after visiting with black residents of Oakland, CA, Sam Levin discovers how the site has also encouraged racial profiling — with potentially disastrous results. Read it at East Bay Express.
Photograph by Bert Johnson for East Bay Express
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