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Increases in new house prices slow down : "The housing-starts report showed that 79 per cent of all new Vancouver housing starts to the...

Fla. Companies Forbidding Smoking In Private Lives - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando What next? Can't ride a motorcyle? I wonder what...

School board to ignore state moment-of-silence law -- chicagotribune.com Of course they are ignoring it. Everybody knows it is impossible to...

57% - Declining Confidence in Political Wisdom of Americans - Yahoo! News So it has finally come to this: the majority of Americans now has ...

Newswire / Press Release: Hilton is Subject of Book Project Revealing the Other Side of Hotel-condo Ownership - Books/Publishing/Newspapers ...

Bankruptcy Reform Bites Back The irony here is that Congress passed this law at the behest of lenders who didn't want consumers to get o...

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Homeowners associations hit by foreclosure fallout No surprise here. If you can't pay the mor...

Massive assessments for upgrading the buildings' systems have divided resident's of Boston's prestigious Harbor Towers - The Bos...

globeandmail.com: Fantino would back even tougher speeding law Brought to you by our friends in Canada: The $10,000 speeding ticket. Maybe H...

Maine town removes offensive name : ICT [2007/10/29] After all the hippies and yuppies moved to Maine and Vermont, those with certain politi...

Weird News: Lansing Police Chief Prepping City For Possible Zombie Attack Ahead Of Halloween - 2007-10-26 It's about time, I say.

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...