The Privatopia Papers

The other day I ended up talking with a neighbor of mine. When I told him that I was about to start teaching a basic American Government cou...

LRB · James Meek · In the Sorting Office "Every week Dutch households and businesses are visited by postmen and postwomen from four dif...

Texas Legislature Online - 82(R) History for SB 142 Here is a request to get the word out that this bill is out of committee and headed for...

Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home "INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta o...

Is “neighborly love” a “possible dream” within homeowner associations? Are those members on the David Berman Blog who play “whack a mole” ag...

Zillow, which operates a popular real estate market website, now predicts that home prices nationally won't hit bottom until 2012 at th...

The Chicago Reporter Despair over disrepair "In 2008, the city devised a way to keep neighborhoods from turning into junkyards as the n...

How Lightning fan outwitted petty HOA over playoff sign - Puck Daddy - NHL Blog - Yahoo! Sports This is creative and funny. Thanks to Jason ...

Here is the link to Shu Bartholomew's site where you can listen to Shu and me talking about my new book and other things.

Can’t We Dump Some of Our 3300 Special Districts? | California Progress Report "Even if Gov. Jerry Brown doesn’t succeed in shutting do...

News from The Associated Press "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fannie Mae asked the government Friday for an additional $8.5 billion in aid after d...

Foreclosures and other practices have drawn the scrutiny of state lawmakers, but legislation proposing changes so far is languishing in co...

Arizona homeowners associations are losing a few more of their powers. They can no longer ban political and real-estate signs, flagpoles ...

When a homeowner association forecloses and takes title to a home, the idea is the board will be able to rent it out until the bank foreclo...

In January, following Corey Burr's deployment to Afghanistan, Burr and her husband, Timothy, put up a large multi-colored banner with t...

Beyond Foreclosuregate - It Gets Uglier | Truthout "The ForeclosureGate scandal poses a threat to Wall Street, the big banks, and the p...

Osama bin Laden hideout 'worth far less than US claimed' | World news | guardian.co.uk So Bin Laden is underwater in more ways than ...

"In theory, RDAs spearhead blight removal. In fact, they divert billions of dollars from traditional services, such as schools, parks, ...

I know the foreclosure crisis has been super-bad, but now it's even badder, given that it's knocking on the door of the baddest, mos...

UI Press | Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government : This book is now available for order directly from the publisher...