MN, WI and IA -2000 to 2004 vote increases
Earlier today NYFM posted a diary that looked at the increased Bush voting in 3 blue states. As someone who did Dem GOTV in Wisconsin, I thought we had buried the GOP with our increased turnout, and...
View ArticleTwo minute activism on banking issues
Fight back against the OTS The Office of Thrift Supervision proposed a serious weakening of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) for its member thrifts on November 24. The CRA which was passed in 1977...
View ArticleBush is economically challanged
This from Reuters for your late night chuckle."The word "challenges" -- a main theme of a two-day White House economic conference that ended on Thursday -- was misspelled on a large television monitor...
View ArticleSeymour Melman Presente
I haven't seen anyone else mention this; if it has been, let me know and I'll delete this diary. If anybody wants to read the NYT obituary it is here. Seymour Melman really understood "framing." In...
View ArticleNew Data on Housing Affordability
The National Low Income Housing Coalition has put out their annual report "Out of Reach 2004" for those interested in affordable housing issues. If you were listening to NPR yesterday you may have...
View ArticlePittsburgh limits check cashing businesses
"Pittsburgh City Council has given final approval to a law that restricts the location and hours of check-cashing businesses within city limits." See rest of story here. The grassroots efforts to pass...
View ArticleExcellent Union Activism on SS
The Washington Post reports that Edward D. Jones & Co. has left the Alliance for Worker Retirement Security because of grassroots pressure from the AFL-CIO. The AFWRS is a coalition of...
View ArticleRemember Rumsfeld's questioner?!
Back in mid -December Spc. Thomas "Jerry" Wilson caught a media wave by asking Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld a tough question about vehicle armor. From what I know about how whistleblowers are dealt...
View ArticleGrassroots win -FDIC backs part way down on CRA attack
Back last year the Office of Thrift Supervison (OTS) and the FDIC proposed doing serious harm to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) by offering a proposed regulation that would have made thrifts and...
View ArticleWhat is happening with bank regulators?
Today the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) announced a final Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rule; last Friday afternoon the Federal Reserve put out a press release announcing that it was joining...
View ArticleBanking policy wonks seek data digging dogs (strictly platonic)
Two nights ago I wrote a diary tracing some of the recent history of the banking regulators' kerfuffle over the Community Reinvestment Act. Dancing Larry, organizer that he is, took a fancy to the idea...
View ArticleBitch About a Bank
There are some good financial institutions. . . .and some real asscaps. This is your opportunity to tell the world about a home mortgage gone bad, a credit card company from hell, a bank that wouldn't...
View ArticleMBNA has upcoming CRA evaluation
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) next Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) evaluation of MBNA America Bank, National Association is scheduled for April of 2005. This provides an...
View ArticleCommunity Reinvestment Act attack - 5 minute activism
On Friday, March 11, three of the four banking agencies announced their proposal to revise the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). This change in the regulation requires a period of public comment period...
View ArticleFederal Reserve slaps Citigroup
Some of you pay attention to the Community Reinvestment Act and how it is used by community activists to convince banks to do a better job in their communities. During bank applications, community...
View ArticleBankruptcy's Bastard Brother - Time to Take Action
[Promoted from the diaries, with minor edits, by DavidNYC. I think our side got caught a bit flat-footed on the bankruptcy bill. Let's make sure that doesn't happen again.] Following on the heels of...
View ArticleSend the OTS a get well card
The folks over at the Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina (CRA*NC) are known for taking the fight to the bad guys in very clever ways. When James Gilleran, the head of the Office of...
View ArticleGilleran resigns as head of OTS
This resignation happened over a week ago, but it hasn't received much attention in the corporate media except for this short article in the Washington Post. Readers of the banking diaries on daily...
View ArticleBankruptcy's Bastard Brother - Part Two
While most of our attention will be focused on the filibuster action in the Senate this week- as it should be- there will be a joint hearing in the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit and the...
View ArticleBankruptcy's Bastard Brother - Hearing Today
Today there was a joint hearing in the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit and the Housing and Community Development subcommittees of the House Financial Services Committee. The hearing was...
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