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d/visible » Blog Archive » The Rise of Neuro-Architecture This is a fascinating blog post that I won't even try to summarize. Here is a ...

9NEWS - Article - School sends home obesity notices with students, parent upset I've been teaching college students for a long time. The...

Private Communities website I guess this must be the place to do a search for your particular brand of Privatopia.

It's Official -- Belmont Bans Smoking In Some Homes - News Story - KNTV | San Francisco Thought to be the first of its kind in Californi...

Condo owners told to remove religious statues -- Newsday.com Here is a condo association that knows how to generate bad press. Gloria Gamara...

Chimps choose more rationally than humans - UPI.com Science makes another great leap forward. Does this mean it is fair to sell homes in HOA...

Homebuilders use car dealer tactics on new-home lots How delightful. What's next? Draft board tactics?

City passes camera law -- baltimoresun.com This means public local governments will be requiring private security measures. Note that crime...

Homeowners' Associations Operate As Governments. Why Shouldn't They Be So Treated? - Wide Open: Insight and Analysis from Ohio's...

ABC News: Librarians Under New Management It seems that privatization of municipal services has now hit one of the last bastions of municipa...

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...