The underlying assumptions are that race discrimination is to blame for one and a contentious backer for the other. According to some officials, mortgage lenders and brokers are discriminating against African Americans and Latinos when they set high interest rates for their subprime home loans. Taking their claims of race discriminations to task, Daren Bakst in the Fayetteville Observer, raises some questions that challenge the conclusion that the entire industry needs to be overhauled. In the Raleigh News & Observer, Roy Cordato comes to the defense of climatologist and JLF guest, Pat Michaels, who was blamed in a previous article for receiving grants from utilities companies. In his letter to the editor, Roy gives the other side of the argument left vacuous by the story’s reporter.
