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Archive for: August, 2007

Congress Eyeing Mortgage Crisis

Could strike deal on legislation sponsored by Sen. Mel Martinez
By Jessica Holzer
reprinted from TheHill.com
As investors and lenders stampede away from risky home loans, the Senate Banking Committee is hashing out a narrow bill that may be the most serious response by Congress to the troubles rocking the mortgage market.
Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Richard Shelby [...]

Lynum Responds to WDBO’s Race Bait Attack

To whom it may concern:
I am in receipt of a transcript of your August 21, 2007 morning broadcast where you state that Juan Lynum’s company, Excel Development, LLC is involved in a lawsuit against the City of Apopka.  Further, the broadcast led listeners to believe that Attorney Juan Lynum, in his individual capacity is a [...]

Racist Apopka Meets Juan Lynum

     WDBO recently showed its true colors, recently when it sided with a clear and arbitrary dscision was made by the city of Apopka to stifle and stall an affordable housing project thas been championed by Orlando attorney Juan Lynum.
Long a part of the old boy network, Apopka has demonstrated its racial animosity against blacks [...]

The Worst Black-on-Black Crime in Decades

By: Gregory Kane, BlackAmericaWeb.com
“Our crime rate is far too high.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote those words in his 1958 book, “Stride Toward Freedom.” He was referring to the disproportionate amount of crime among black Americans, an issue King didn’t flinch from facing.
Nearly 50 years later, King might be inclined to follow that sentence with [...]

How poverty generates violence in the Black community

By Mac Walton ,
reprinted from Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Remember: 25 percent of Black people are poor, and more than 50 percent of Black children are poor by U.S. government standards.
Week before last, we spoke of poverty of income: the 37 million poor Americans by the U.S. government’s statistics ($19,971 for a family of four), the 90 million [...]

Orlando is Full of It: A Commentary

by Gabe Kaimowitz
Listen up, folks.
The dead black souls at last are messing with your property values
like you messed with their lives for decades in the last century. They’ve left
you a present.
While you were voting to have a billion or more dollars for more places to entertain your historically white sports, theater, and music followers, [...]

Town Hall Meeting

“Property Tax Reform: How Much Money Are You Actually Saving”
Commissioner Tiffany Moore invites you to join her for a Town Hall Meeting to be held on Thursday, August 23, 2007. The purpose of the event is to have an informed discussion about property taxes paid by our Orange County residents.   There will be detailed presentations [...]

Did Tiffany Get it Wrong?

To onlookers, it appears Tiffany wasn’t down with the Community Venue’s project.
District 6 Commissioner Tiffany Moore joined with Commissioner Fred Brummer, and sided against Central Florida’s future, voting her conscience and dissing her constituents.

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