The Privatopia Papers

12 million suburbanites live in poverty - Yahoo! News Fred Pilot sent this link to a story that is buried in the newspapers as well. I have ...

Article - News - Leisure World must open its records This is an interesting turn of events to which I was alerted by the ever-alert Fred Pil...

Flag-raising raises a fuss at Lino Lakes condo Fred Pilot sent this along. The flagpole seems to be in the common area, which creates some f...

Texas House of Representatives: Member Burt Solomons Here's the legislator who introduced HR 222, referenced below. This is the ban on m...

TLO - 80(R) History for HB 222 This is the bill I referred to a few days ago that would do away with municipal mandates for HOAs, at least i...

Judge rewards flagpole lawyer Fred Pilot sent another account of the work of Attorney Barry Silver, who was awarded twice his usual fees for...

TCPalm: Judge awards legal fees to Jupiter man involved in flag flap Latest events in the Georg Andres case, sent by Shu Bartholomew: A Jupi...

The Peace Wreath Look what just came in over the transom. Thanks, Jim, for a fine piece of Peacemas poetry. Every Loma at Lindaville liked...

DenverPost.com - HOA surrenders on peace wreath Thanks to Jim Bowers for pointing me to this. He also suggests a parallel to the big issue i...

American Chronicle: Pretty Fascist Communism Thanks to Nancy Levy for sending the link to this amazing piece of writing by Nancy Levant, who...

Freshly Baked Handouts Forbidden in Fairfax - washingtonpost.com I have this feeling that local governments are starting to emulate HOAs. He...

Article - News - It's good to be a supervisor Fred Pilot sent this amazing story from the Orange County Register about the lavish pay an...

Inca justice system eyed by Morales may use whipping - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper I wonder how long it will take ...

On Architecture: The suburbs don't have to be boring Nancy Levy forwarded this piece about how to make suburbs good places to live and r...

BREITBART.COM - Existing Home Sales Rise, Prices Fall Sales of existing homes posted a tiny increase in October, the first gain in eight mon...

Homeowner associations can be very good or very bad That is the philosophical headline of the recent story about HOAs. I'm quoted if you...

Now, here's a law to reckon with... Here's some language from Texas' HB222, called to my attention by the ever alert Fred Pilot ...

Colo. subdivision bans wreath peace sign - Yahoo! News Thanks to Fred Pilot for this sample of holiday spirit, HOA style. There is a photo o...

trialog zeitschrift für stadtplanung frameset-datei From Elisabeth Peyroux comes the announcement of this new issue of the journal Trialog, ...

Don't try defending your home against an intruder in Canada The basic rule seems to be: beat up a burglar and you go to jail.