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As the mortgage and credit crisis continues on a downward spiral, developers and homeowners in markets most strongly affected by the speculative housing bubble are pinched. As these desperate owners are unable to sell their properties and prices decline sharply, some are turning to the illegal option of arson in order to gain the insurance value of their house at high assessment levels. Here are a variety of recent cases around the country where owners and developers were caught burning their...

Monday, March 3, 2008 : Hillary Clinton ran a new campaign commercial on Friday – asking who you want answering the White House phone at 3:00 a.m. when something happens in our “dangerous world.” The ad was indistinguishable from what John McCain did two months ago, and within 3 hours Barack Obama felt compelled to shoot a response....

CLEVELAND - Folks on Humphrey Hill Drive were still waking up on the icy Saturday morning the shark hunters came to town. They rounded the suburban traffic circle in a pair of rented school buses after a half-hour ride from far more modest neighborhoods, rumbling to a stop at the Garmone family's driveway. Forty-two caffeinated Clevelanders piled out, their leaders carrying bullhorns....

Lennar has NO money and is borrowing money to win a dead cause. It wants to build some 1600 units on land surrounded by Depleted Uranium. Why would anyone want to build homes in the middle of Chernobyl? Lennar is losing and most of all from lack of trust from the community. Lennar has opened an office of Evan Street with offers of cheap free food and other bread crumb incentives. Of course only those with the slave mentality visit this office - but the others will address the real issue - whe...

What's with the recent crackdown on HIV-positive sufferers and homosexuals, asks Gamal Nkrumah...

Friday, February 29, 2008 : With so much bad economic news piling up, it's hard not to list a few of the more recent indicators that the U.S. economy is in trouble. Just in recent days, we've learned the following. Paychecks have been shrinking for 80 percent of the U.S. workforce since October. Wage earners aren't seeing just skimpier raises and higher prices....

Friday, February 29, 2008 : The MTA gave its Citizens’ Advisory Committee a look at the proposed changes to the city’s public transportation Wednesday night, some of which are fairly drastic and sure to raise controversy. Fear not! You have a season of public meetings ahead of you to put in your complaints or compliments. There are, essentially, four proposals to examine....

143 million pounds of recalled meat may be just the beginning. The story below calls into question the practices of a Fresno meat processing plant where workers say downer cows, tumors, and abscesses are being ground into hamburger. The general manager of the Fresno plant says the workers are wrong and that they would never do anything like that....

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- Next Tuesday, the Oakland City Council will vote on Mayor Ron Dellums' request for $7.7 million dollars to recruit and train more police officers. What about getting the officers already in the department to show up for work? We went to Oakland and tried to get top city and police officials to reveal what they're doing to reduce the department's staggering absentee rate....

Thursday, February 28, 2008 : Assemblywoman Fiona Ma announced a bill yesterday which, if passed, would require all California employers to provide paid time off to their employees when they are sick or need time to take care of their sick family members. AB2716, introduced in the State Assembly last week, would make it possible for each employee to take one hour of paid time off for every 30 hours of work....