The Privatopia Papers

Netherlands town bans blasphemy - Yahoo! News Who do these dad gum ramifrazit @%#%&$#@@ busybodies think they are--HOA trustees, or some...

WHEATON, IL: The 109-year-old DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton will be converted to condominiums Now, that's what I call privatizat...

Operation Condo Conversion Invades San Diego From Nancy Levy comes this opinion piece by a fellow who sees the good and bad of condo conve...

Zoning investigator put on leave as city probes trip with developer Chicago Sun-Times story forwarded by Nancy Levy. How could a thing li...

NAMC Newswire - Vegas Grand Condo Lawsuit Nancy Levy forwarded this press release about a class action in Vegas. This release seems to com...

Growing Numbers of Master-Planned Communities Create More Special Utility Districts, Reports Dallas ULI Conference This is a press release f...

Chicago Tribune | Glenview, resident fight on over village's legal-fee rule Mystery Reader urges me to post this nasty neighborhood disp...

AZ: HOAs oppose possible move by thrift shop From Nancy Levy, this story about organized HOA opposition to a thrift store. The race f...

City To Rewrite Code After Cruiser Conflict - Yahoo! News Because of this supremely idiotic HOA behavior, the city is going to change the ci...

Trump Group Selling West Side Parcel for $1.8 Billion - New York Times A consortium of Hong Kong investors and Donald J. Trump are selling...

Dutch Voters Reject EU Constitution - Yahoo! News Big government takes it in the teeth for the second time in a few days. Does this mean ...

Maybe they need an ombudsperson... BANGKOK (Reuters) - Five Thai Buddhist monks have been defrocked and fined after a brawl with monks f...

Angry Apartment Residents Throw Grenade at Noisy Neighbors - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM How many of us have felt like doing this? And of course i...

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries Any nominations?

From Illinois: Bill requires homeowners associations to alert members of meetings Does it seem at all strange to anybody else that the st...

HOAs can ban your political signs in TX anymore... Passed along by Fred Pilot. Don't mess with Texas. AUSTIN - Want to stick a sign i...

Hiker uses martial arts to fight off grizzly bear I just had to post this. An Alberta man on a Bible retreat successfully used his Bra...

Only who can prevent fires? Homeowners seek federal funds to protect land themselves Local News - The Coloradoan Nancy Levy sent this pie...

Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 2005 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America On Memorial Day, we honor the me...

A Bane Amid The Housing Boom: Rising Foreclosures From Nancy Levy, with some speculation that, although this article isn't specificall...