Oakland and the Goals of the Weather UndergroundPosted by Lorren on July 28, 2010
The Weather Underground manifesto was against property rights. Could this be related to Oakland’s reducing the police force and not responding to property crimes?
Signs of Economic Troubles… The Rise Of The Tent CityPosted by Lorren on September 26, 2008
This recent AP article had me a little disturbed. Evidently, the recent economic troubles that this country has had has resulted in tent cities popping up all over this country, from Washington state, to California, to Ohio.
The worst thing about this is… nobody that is in a tent city today got there as a [...]
Squatters Flocking to Foreclosed HomesPosted by Lorren on February 18, 2008
Last month I wrote about how some banks were trying to sell their foreclosed homes at auction, but they weren’t getting the prices that they wanted for them, so they’d just let them sit. In a declining housing market, I thought that was a bonehead move (they’re not going to get any more valuable, [...]
