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California has about 1 million households that don’t have bank accounts, the majority of which are Black and Latino, according to data from the federal government. But they could soon have access to state backed, no fee checking accounts after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1177 last week.
SCENE: Dumers Lane in Radcliffe A RADCLIFFE man has appeared in court after brandishing a Taser in the street. Anthony Murray, 20, of Seddon Avenue, told police officers he had bought the banned weapon on the internet for £15 and only had it with him to “show his friends”. At Minshull Street Crown Court, Eleanor Myles, prosecuting, said on November 26, Murray had been drinking alcohol when he left his home, where he lives with his parents, taking with him a rucksack containing a “torch-like object” which was in fact a Taser. Murray was next seen walking down Dumers Lane with ...
Author of the article: The Whig-Standard Publishing date: Apr 26, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 3 minute read Allan Jones, president of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 560, at the branch in Kingston. Photo by Michael Lea /The Whig-Standard Article content For the third time in two years, thieves stole the ropes from our flagpoles at (Royal Canadian Legion Branch) 560 on Montreal Street. You read that correctly, the ropes for hoisting our flags have gone again, complete with new clasps we had to buy the last time. Until we can find the $100 per pole to replace six of our eight ropes and r...
Author of the article: Ian MacAlpine Publishing date: Apr 21, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 4 minute read Staff, volunteers and summer students of the brigantine St. Lawrence II gathered at Portsmouth Olympic Harbour on Aug. 21, 2020, to honour Francis MacLachlan, front. He designed and built the tall ship St. Lawrence II in 1953 and was its first captain. MacLachlan died on April 18, 2021, at the age of 95. Photo by Ian MacAlpine /Ian MacAlpine/The Whig-Standard/ Article content Francis MacLachlan, the designer and builder of the sail training brigantine St. Lawrence II and other sail...
Author of the article: Peter Hendra Publishing date: Apr 05, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 5 minute read An April 1989 file photo of Robert Mundell, the 1999 Nobel Prize winner for economic sciences, in Kingston. Photo by Michael Lea /The Whig-Standard file photo Article content Robert Mundell — the Kingston-born economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1999 and was called “the godfather of the Euro” — died Sunday in Italy at age 88. Mundell, a longtime professor at New York’s Columbia University, won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on currency exchange rates. We apolo...