JUSTICE

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HIGHER INCOMES DO NOT ELIMINATE MORTGAGE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
MINORITIES

AP - Higher income does not protect blacks and Hispanics from receiving
mortgage loans with above-market rates, a new study by a group pushing
for reforms to lending laws says. The report, released by the
Washington-based National Community Reinvestment Coalition, concludes
that in 2005 blacks in 171 metropolitan areas were at least twice as
likely as whites to receive expensive loans. The study was based on an
analysis of nationwide mortgage data collected by the Federal Reserve
for the most recent year available.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19699330/

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OREGON EXPANDS STUDENT JOURNALIST RIGHTS

USA TODAY - The nation's first law to help protect Oregon high school
and college journalists from censorship by school administrations will
be signed Friday by Gov. Ted Kulongoski. The Oregon law makes student
journalists responsible for determining the content of school-sponsored
media, and gives them the right to sue schools if they feel free-press
rights have been violated.

It is the country's first law in more than a decade to protect high
school journalists, and the first ever to cover both high school and
college journalists under one statute, said Warren Watson, director of
J-Ideas, a First Amendment institute at Ball State University in Muncie,
Ind. "This is really a landmark for student journalism," Watson said.

Six other states - Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas and
Massachusetts - have laws that protect high school journalists from
censorship. All were passed before 1996.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/
2007-07-10-student-newspapers_N.htm?csp=34


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