The Privatopia Papers

ABC News: Florida City Tries to Ban Chinese Products I am swinging around to the view that municipalities are prevailing over HOAs in the co...

USATODAY.com: Volunteer radar gunslingers nail speeders Privatization strikes again, and you know the HOAs have to be involved: Speeders be...

Flamingos Killed in German Zoo Attack Obviously one small part of the larger CAI conspiracy...

Turkeys, once unseen in Massachusetts, are showing up in big numbers in cities and towns - The Boston Globe Actually this is nothing new. We...

Bloomberg.com: Countrywide to Refinance Up to $16 Billion of Loans Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Countrywide Financial Corp., the biggest U.S. mort...

Bonfire event banned in Guy Fawkes' home town - Yahoo! News Oh, the irony...

Chicago builder, Neumann Homes, closes branches, prepares bankruptcy filing -- chicagotribune.com I won't be shedding any tears for this...

Rural town may block Muslim site Think this will survive a constitutional challenge? WALKERSVILLE, Md. -- A Muslim group's plan to build...

From Casinos to Counterterrorism Some people think Las Vegas is the US city of the future. They have wall to wall gated communities, and als...

The Great Omani Let us take a moment to reflect on the life and times of...The Great Omani. Ron Cunningham, who died on Monday aged 92, was ...

Kenneth R. Harney - Vultures Are Circling Over Distressed Properties - washingtonpost.com I guess the housing market must be turning into a ...

When Your Home Is Not Your Castle The Motley Fool weighs in on HOAs and condos. Unfortunately, it's virtually impossible to escape a hom...

Angry homeowners seek dissolution of association, board Strange course of action considering how happy everybody is in these associations......

HUD Ends Effort To Collect Condo & HOA Fees | FHA Mortgage Guide

HOA Legi-Slate: HUD Rules on Escrowing Assessments And decides not to require it. Maybe the disappearing escrowed property taxes around the ...

Southern Calif. home sales plunge 30 pct in Sept | Reuters It just keeps on going...

The Brooklyn Paper: New face of vandalism? Another entry in the municipality-as-HOA-impersonator genre: A 6-year-old Park Slope girl is faci...

Paulson Urges Action on Housing Crisis WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called Tuesday for an aggressive response to dea...

The Times-Tribune - West Side woman faces jail time for swearing at toilet I think I have been guilty of this offense myself a few times. Go...

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 ...