by Anthony Colombo | Jan 18, 2018 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking
by gophouse.org | 1/18/18 State Rep. Martin Howrylak, of Troy, today formally introduced a bipartisan package of bills that would create and maintain a state bank. The bank would be authorized to engage in limited banking activities, including the facilitation of...
by Anthony Colombo | Jan 13, 2018 | National, News, Public Banking
by ADELE PETERS | Fast Company | 1/8/18 When the movement to push the city of Los Angeles from keeping its money at Wells Fargo grew in 2017–as in other cities that decided to pull money from the bank because of its fake accounts scandal and funding of the Dakota...
by Anthony Colombo | Jan 7, 2018 | National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
BY DEONNA ANDERSON | DECEMBER 28, 2017 In Portland, Oregon, a movement is slowly building to establish a public bank. After debating divestment from companies whose practices might be harmful to people or the environment, the City Council voted in April to stop...
by Anthony Colombo | Dec 9, 2017 | National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
By Joshua Sabatini | San Francisco Examiner | December 3, 2017 San Francisco could become the first city in the nation to launch a public bank. Supervisors Malia Cohen and Sandra Fewer are advancing the idea of establishing a municipal bank, which would end The City’s...
by Anthony Colombo | Dec 7, 2017 | Local Economies, News
By T. S. Last / Journal Staff Writer | The Albuquerque Journal | November 21, 2017 SANTA FE – One thing was clear from a public forum held by the city of Santa Fe’s Public Bank Task Force, formed to research and identify barriers to forming a public bank: It won’t be...
by Anthony Colombo | Nov 21, 2017 | News, Public Banking, Santa Fe
By T. S. Last / Journal Staff Writer | The Albuquerque Journal | November 17, 2017 SANTA FE, N.M. — Already halfway through its six-month exercise to examine what next steps need to be taken to establish a public bank in Santa Fe and identify potential barriers, the...