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How being a veteran cost restaurant owner bite of COVID relief By: Newsy Staff and last updated 2021-07-22 18:12:12-04 Bob Freeman is the majority owner of the Buena Vista Cafe, a restaurant long known for serving Irish coffee to tourists visiting San Francisco.  Freeman is also a Navy veteran.  “The military was good to me,” Freeman said, sitting at the same bar Andy Garcia picked up Meg Ryan in the ‘90s film, “When a Man Loves a Woman.”   Odd as it sounds, Freeman’s status as a veteran became a problem when he applied for a fede...

July 22, 2021 Lawsuits blocking women and minority restaurant owners from getting COVID relief appear to be also locking out military veterans. SHOW TRANSCRIPT Bob Freeman is majority owner of the Buena Vista Cafe, a restaurant long known for serving Irish coffee to tourists visiting San Francisco.  Freeman is also a Navy veteran.  “The military was good to me,” Freeman said, sitting at the same bar Andy Garcia picked up Meg Ryan in the ‘90s film, “When a Man Loves a Woman.”   Odd as it sounds, Freeman’s status as a veteran became a problem when he applied for a f...

City of Madison faces lawsuit over police oversight board Now, it’s the subject of a federal lawsuit against the City of Madison.  The lawsuit is brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a conservative legal firm. WILL is bringing the lawsuit on behalf of David Blaska, a local conservative blogger, former Dane County Board Supervisor, and former mayoral and school board candidate. Blaska, who is white, was not appointed to the  oversight board but was one of about sixty applicants. He says certain rules establishing the membership of the board amounted to a racial q...

<p><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/8726556/capitol-dome-white-house-money_350x219.jpg" alt="US Capitol White House money background" class="ImageFloatRight"/>The white, male owner of a Tennessee restaurant has finally received grant money from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, but it hasn't been easy.</p>

USDA defends race-based loans after white farmers sue Friday, May 7, 2021  |  Chris Woodward, Billy Davis (OneNewsNow.com) English Spanish A group of white farmers who are suing the United States Dept of Agriculture over a race-based loan forgiveness program have been informed where they stand in the eyes of the federal government, but the attorney representing them predicts a court will right the wrong. "Our clients just want to be treated equally," attorney Dan Lennington says of the five Midwest farmers who filed suit after learning the $4 billion program explicitly leaves out whi...