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It is this reporter's opinion that we are now witnessing a new, lucrative game being played on the illegal alien front. Let's call it "banking on illegal immigrants" - American banks engaging in providing home loans to "undocumented" U.S. residents. The banking industry is opening its doors to a controversial new market: illegal aliens. An increasing number of banks have discovered an untapped resource for growing their own revenue. As one participant puts it, "We are institutionalizing illegality." Indeed, in this business there is no distinction being made between those who follow the rules and those who break our laws...

Penguin and the great katie.com hijackBy Kieren McCarthyPublished Wednesday 4th August 2004 10:20 GMT It was a book that taps into many people's fears over Internet technology - how children may be at risk from adults manipulating the anonymous online exchange. There have been numerous TV programmes, articles and even laws created that cover and hope to battle the perceived menace of Internet chatrooms. However, Katie.com is unique in that its author - US teenager Katherine Tarbox - was actually a victim of an online predator. She was 13, so was Mark. Except Mark was really a 40-year-old called Frank, and...

WASHINGTON, DC— Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding the threat of bioterrorism: "The President singled out bioterrorism as a top priority for homeland security immediately after September 11th. He has increased spending on research and preparedness for bioterrorism by more than $4.8 billion since taking office and has provided an additional $4.5 billion to states, local governments and hospitals to assist them in preparing for possible bioterror attacks. "John Kerry’s political attacks on the President and failure to acknowledge these historic gains are just another example of Kerry playing politics with national security. After voting six times...

(March 30, 2004) George Putnam started in tv at a Minneapolis/St. Paul experimental station in 1939. George Putnam started in L.A. on KTTV/Channel 11 in 1951. George Putnam started one more time yesterday as he launched a noon – 2 p.m. show on Art Astor’s KSPA-Riverside (1510 AM) and nationally on Cable Radio News Network. The 89-year-old L.A. legend was off and running from the Art Astor complex in Anaheim surrounded by press, sponsors, friends, and colleagues. George didn’t miss a beat from his last SoCal broadcast at KPLS that ended the day before Christmas last year. “For 40 years...

George Putnam did his last live show on KPLS on Wed. 12/24... He announced that he will be going back to KRLA...Putnam stated that the time slot will be determined later. He still has to talk more with the KRLA management. I am glad that George will continue to stay on the air... I don't agree with him on everything. But, he has interesting stories to tell...He has talked about his meetings with famous actors and politicians. I am surprised that George will go back to KRLA...George left that station after a bitter dispute...

Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Putnam Investments, the Boston-based money manager that's suffered more than $9.2 billion in withdrawals by public pension funds this month, was fired by Wal- Mart Stores Inc. as manager of two funds in its 401(k) plans.

One Reporter's Opinion: Know Him by His Deeds George Putnam Friday, Oct. 31, 2003 It is this reporter's opinion that the revisionists, the mythmakers and outright liars who write the histories of great men and women have distorted the biographies of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, both Roosevelts and Sir Winston Churchill. Now, apparently, it's Ronald Reagan's turn in the bucket. CBS is about to broadcast a two-part miniseries, "The Reagans." It depicts happenings and conversations in Reagan's life that never took place. Producers of "The Reagans" do not deny that, and the young scriptwriters depict one of the great presidents of...

Washington, D. C. -- The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that federal disaster aid has been made available to help families and businesses in northwestern Ohio recover from the string of violent tornadoes that ravaged the area last week. FEMA Director Joe M. Allbaugh said President Bush authorized the assistance under a major disaster declaration issued for Ohio following a review of the agency's analysis of the state's request for federal relief. The declaration covers damage to private property from severe storms and tornadoes that occurred November 10. "President Bush understands how devastating these storms...