JournalStar.com: City considers ‘red-tagging’ problem houses

Is it my imagination, or are municipalities starting to become more like HOAs?
City leaders are floating the idea of slapping so-called “red tags” on disorderly houses to serve notice to inhabitants, neighbors and landlords that they’re in trouble with the law.

Thriving under our noses, but stealthily: coyotes
Scientists have long thought coyotes intently avoid cities, but a new study has found the opposite. Groups of the historically maligned dog relatives are thriving in some large U.S. cities: they lurk in darkness and come out at night, probably helping the human inhabitants by eating vermin, the study found.

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This study was done in and around Chicago. I see coyotes around, but they are near our home in the boonies, not near my office in downtown Chicago. Or maybe I don't notice them because they dress better when they go downtown.

No Bids for Love Home at Foreclosure Sale - Yahoo! News
Q. What does it mean when they give a foreclosure sale and nobody shows up?
A. That it's Courtney Love's house.

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Courtney Love lost the historic bungalow she bought in the late 1990s to a Los Angeles mortgage company after a foreclosure auction generated no bids.