| Lekota arrested for speeding south of Joburg
A Reiger Park resident has told 702 Eyewitness News illegal drag racing in the area is out of control.
The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, says drag racers are using residential areas, placing other motorists and pedestrians' lives in danger.
Late last year, a child was critically injured after being run over in a drag race. The resident says that incident was by no means isolated. Back to headlines .
Video: FHLBank San Francisco Awards $65 Million in AHP Grants ...
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco) today announced that it awarded $65 million to help finance affordable housing projects in the past year, which includes $3.3 million in grants for Nevada. At the announcement ceremony, the Bank's 2007 Friend of Affordable Housing Award was presented to Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV). To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/fhlbsf/31313/ Highlighting the impact of grants from the Bank's Affordable Housing Program (AHP), the announcements were made during groundbreaking for the Las Vegas Rescue Mission's expansion. The Rescue Mission received a $1 million AHP grant to support rehabilitation and growth of their Men's Center, which provides residents with housing and supportive services aimed at breaking cycles of alcohol and drug dependency.
Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?
I rarely get e-mail from the USA Today's Byron Acohido (who from time to time interviews me for my opinions on tech). But today, Acohido drew my attention to a story that he has co-authored with Jon Swartz under the headline FTC under fire as credit bureaus sell consumers' data. The story draws attention to a complex Web of potentially conflicting interests involving Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras, the law firm she used to work for, her husband who still works for it, how that law firm represents one of the big three credit reporting bureaus, and whether or not the FTC has morphed into an agent of the credit reporting bureaus' success from the consumer guardian that The People have entrusted it to be. While the targets of this follow-the-money like inquest deny any impropriety, I can certainly understand the position of Robert Kuttner, author of The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity who, who in response to the USA Today inquiry, said: Federal agencies that are supposed to be looking out for the consumer are really protecting the companies that do bad things the agencies were set up to prevent.
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