Greensboro gas pumps busy amid pipeline shutdown, but experts call for calm
We don t know how long the Colonial Pipeline will be shut down, but gas prices could continue to go up. Filling up your tank unnecessarily could make it worse. Author: Grace Holland Updated: 7:12 AM EDT May 12, 2021
GREENSBORO, N.C. There s a panic at the pump, up and down the east coast.
More than a thousand gas stations in the Southeast said they would run out of fuel Tuesday. People are flocking to them after a cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline.
Operations are shut down for at least a couple more days. Many gas stations in Greensboro have long lines or no gas at all.
N.C., S.C. attorneys general join group against Instagram for kids N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein and S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson are among 44 attorneys general now asking Facebook not to launch a version of Instagram for children. (Source: Pexels) By WBTV Web Staff and WMBF News Staff | May 11, 2021 at 12:46 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 4:16 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. (WMBF/WBTV) - North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson are among 44 attorneys general now asking Facebook not to launch a version of Instagram for children.
According to a press release, the coalition is citing concerns about the safety and well-being of children under the age of 13 and the âharm social media poses to young people.â
Last October during the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and its rippling economic downturns, a key federal financial regulator adopted a rule that blesses the “rent-a-bank” scheme where predatory lenders partner with banks to evade state interest rate limits.
Known as the “True Lender” rule, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) gave a green light to predatory lenders. It effectively overrides a string of state laws in almost every state enacted to end abusive payday, car-title, and installment loans with explosive interest rates of more than 100%.
Taking effect in late December 2020, the rule facilitates a scheme whereby payday and high-cost installment lenders pay fees to banks for use of their name and charter to dodge state interest rate laws by claiming the bank’s exemption from those laws for itself.
As discussed in our
earlier blog, the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing on April 28, 2021 entitled “The Reemergence of Rent-a-Bank?”.
The hearing focused primarily on the
final “True Lender” rule issued by the OCC on October 27, 2020, which was effective December 29, 2020. The True Lender rule clarifies when, under existing law, a national bank is the “true lender” that makes a loan in the context of an arrangement between the bank and a non-bank entity that facilitates or services the loan. Since the non-bank entity frequently is a fintech, these arrangements often are referred to as bank-fintech partnerships or marketplace lending arrangements. Democrats have launched an
In North Carolina, It Takes A Court Order To Release Police Body Camera Footage
Details Published: 27 April 2021
Six days after sheriff’s deputies in North Carolina fatally shot Andrew Brown Jr., the body camera footage has not been made public.
That’s because state law requires a court order before the video can be released.
After several days of pressure, Pasquotank County Attorney Michael Cox filed a motion on Monday to get that order. But the slow pace of this process has already provoked widespread frustration in the community.
“If Andrew Brown would have done something illegal or incriminating, I guarantee you that video would be all over CNN and every other news station,” the family’s attorney, Ben Crump, said Monday night on CNN.