Month September 2007

For Wood, who is facing a “mountain of work.”

(One of a series of photos of the forced evictions at Lincoln Place Apartments, evictions a judge just ruled were unlawful.) Lincoln Place Apartments in Venice CA is one of the oldest and largest apartment complexes in Los Angeles, with…

By yesterday, however, the markets were moving in ways that cannot have made the Fed happy. The dollar fell — an expected result from cutting short-term interest rates — but long-term rates rose, and so did mortgage rates.”Alan Greenspan’s conundrum…

Alisher Usmanov, Uzbek billionaire, wants to buy the Arsenal Football Club. British bloggers began exposing his apparent sleazy, violent past. He retaliated by getting their sites thrown off their servers. This includes the site of Craig Murray, former UK Amabassabor…

(The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It is the largest estuary in the Western Hemisphere and a major source of water for much of California.) Some instructive quotes from just-launched California Water Crisis, who plan to educate the public about the seriousness…