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Vegas HOA Charged With Discrimination - Las Vegas News Story - KVVU Las Vegas "A Las Vegas homeowners association is accused of restric...

HOA Syndrome Is Real, Nevada Professor Claims - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix "What is the treatment for HOA Syndrome? It's pre...

Arizona SWAT Team Shoots Latino Former Marine Dozens of Times - COLORLINES This is a very disturbing story. I am going to keep track of it a...

HOA Tries To Evict Woman Dying Of Cancer - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix The Florence Gardens Mobile Home Association is trying to evic...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Timothy Adams isn't backing down. The Omaha resident has turned a dispute with his neighborhood association into a ...

Ron Paul: I Would Not Have Voted For The 1964 Civil Rights Act (VIDEO) | TPMDC "Just about a year after his son Rand Paul stepped in it...

A pattern of HUD projects stalled or abandoned - The Washington Post "The federal government’s largest housing construction program for...

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 ...