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Find major legislative issues in your area with opengovernment.org

In this third segment on unveiling opengovernment.org and how you can use it to track legislative issues, we are going to talk more about issue areas. What are the most prevalent issues  in your state? Do you know the bills about these issues? I took… [...]

Demolition Day

Today I will be proud to participate in Commencement at South Texas College of Law. We’re thrilled to have Houston Mayor Annise Parker as our keynote speaker. But shortly before Mayor Parker begins speaking, she will order hundreds of buildings… [...]

Car crashing through Sidney hair salon kills woman

TweetThe Daily Star has the horrible news: An 83-year-old woman was killed yesterday when a car drove through the house in Sidney where she was waiting to get her hair done at an in-home hair salon: An 83-year-old Unadilla woman waiting to have her hai… [...]

Delhi stickup: "It’s a good story, but it didn’t happen"

TweetNote: This isn’t an April Fool’s joke. You can’t make this stuff up. –Ed. Rumors are flying in Delhi that the Tractor Supply Co. store on Main Street was hit by armed robbers on Wednesday. The stories vary, with some of the more extravagant ones … [...]

NYT Dialogue on Shrinking Cities

The latest census figures from Detroit (Chad’s hometown blogged about here and here) have inspired the New York Times to solicit opinions from several urban planning experts about the way forward for post-industrial cities confronted with large-scale p… [...]

7,000 pot plants seized in Sullivan County

TweetThe Times Herald-Record is reporting that teams of federal and Sullivan County officials have made one of the biggest marijuana busts in the county’s history: 7,000 marijuana plants, a haul worth about $10 million. “We believe it will be a record,… [...]

Hunter-Tannersville school employee charged with sexual abuse of student

The Daily Mail has the details: A Hunter-Tannersville Central School District school bus maintenance supervisor was charged with having sexual relations with an underage student. Timothy B. Tait, 52, of Tannersville had a court appearance adjourned … [...]

Police: Toy thrown by Port Ewen man injures 5-year-old

According to a press release issued by the State Police, Dayton Harper of Port Ewen was arrested last week after reportedly hurting a 5-year-old child on two occasions. Harper allegedly struck the child and, in a separate incident, threw a toy at the c… [...]

Lind on Public Nuisance Law and Bank Foreclosures

This blog has had the good fortune to feature the amazing work of Cleveland-Marshall’s Urban Development Law Clinic (here and here, too) as well as dispatches from the front lines of the foreclosure fallout in Cleveland’s neighborhoods from the Clinic’… [...]

Ulster County teens arrested after break-in bacchanalia

With a glut of vacation houses standing empty most of the year, break-ins are a perennial problem in the Catskills and Hudson Valley. But this one kinda takes the cake: A scrum of (mostly) teenagers allegedly occupied a house on Beaverkill Road in Ston… [...]