The Privatopia Papers

Two Calif. cities to vote on banning smoking in apartments - USATODAY.com We really are seeing a lot more intrusive governing going on at th...

NYC Mayor: Surveillance a City Necessity -- Newsday.com Sometimes I think that raising issues of civil liberties in CIDs, on the grounds tha...

WSLS.com | Man Cut by Campaign Sign People must take politics seriously in Massachusetts. Razor blades inside a campaign sign badly cut a ma...

Are you prepared to be ruled by a homeowners association? - MarketWatch In my case, the answer, is "not unless I have no other alternat...

Some in Fairfax Public Housing Make Six Figures - washingtonpost.com The median new home price in Fairfax County is $960,000, according to t...

Why have municipal Wi-Fi networks been such a flop? - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine Municipal corporations trying to compete with business corp...

The Sun Online - News: Jail ship to ease overcrowding There's nothing like a great big prison ship to bring out the best in people, don...

Las Vegas Business Press :: News : Web site ranks Las Vegas as nation's most overbuilt city Most of this (overbuilt) housing supply is i...

Tom Cruise building '£5m bunker to protect against alien attack'| Showbiz | This is London I hope he went through the Architectural ...

NPR : Town Weighs Ban on Leaf Blowers One of these days I'm going to put together two lists of unusual prohibitions one list for HOAs, a...

Victorville Daily Press : board member settles for seat Challenged 2006 election, now must pay some of association’s legal fees

In Harford Co., residents pay their own way for safe streets -- baltimoresun.com Frustrated with the police response, the residents in this ...

Homeowners Association Sells Disabled Couple's Home | WOAI.COM: San Antonio News But ask anybody who works in this industry and they wil...

Homeowner associations: Friend or foe? | Clayton.Talk Is this a trick question?

Bacteria sent to space come back more infectious Great. Just great. Science marches on. Why not send up some plague while you're at it a...

S&P: US Home Price Decline Accelerates: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance Every article I read with this or a similar headline says that t...

Apes blamed for crime spres |Sky News|World News There is a photo of one of the perps.

Hot property: a spacious missile base as your new home I wonder if there are any old Cold-War Russian missiles sitting in silos with this ad...

The Old "Scientific Consensus" about climate change Ah, the good old days of the early 1970's, when NASA scientists predicted ...

Smog and Mirrors: China's Plan for a Green Olympics Here is a fascinating article sent by Mystery Reader about how China's governmen...