The nursing home roommate from hell. A former San Diego nursing home resident was sentenced to 19 years in jail yesterday for setting a series of fires at two local nursing homes while she was a resident. According to an investigation, Mary Wilson tried to kill her nursing home roommate by setting ...

As a follow up to yesterday's blog entry about U.S. News & World Report's rankings of nursing homes is another article from U.S. News about Special Focus Facilities (SFF).  Among the 15,547 nursing homes in the full set of U.S. News rankings, 131 are tagged as "Special-Focus Facilities ...

Thanks to Mary Sarah Bilder for pointing out this great story from the Boston Globe on a recent decision preserving easements on Martha's Vineyard (or perhaps as my Massachusettes relatives would pronounce it, Marthar's Vineyard). The story begins: Every Veterans...

[Brett Favre] decided to play the game at his age and all that goes with it, and the effect he had on Minnesota and on that team and a lot of sports fans was enormous. I think the excitement and the challenge is something that is very alluring, and if I can play a small part in paying the taxpayer b ...

The EEOC brought two suits against The Boeing Company, alleging gender-based harassment and retaliation involving three employees. The suits were settled for $380,000, an injunction prohibiting future discrimination and retaliation, and other relief. EEOC Press release 02/01/2010: Boeing S ...

Charles Grant (University of Reading, Department of Economics) & Winfried Koeniger (Queen Mary University of London, Department of Economics) have published Redistributive Taxation and Personal Bankruptcy in U.S. States, 52 J.L. & Econ. 445 (2009). Here is the abstract: Personal bankruptcy regulatio ...

FINRA's board of governors will review allegations that senior executives, including Mary Schapiro, received excessive compensation in 2008, despite the organization's operating losses. FINRA is conducting the review in response to a lawsuit brought by Amerivet Securities. InvNews, Finra executives. ...

Financial reform efforts continued on capital hill this week with testimony about the so-called Volker Rule which some call Glass Steagall lite. SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro met with her counter parts at the FSA in London to discuss coordination on topics such as rating agencies and hedge funds. The ...

President Obama met today with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country and announced a series of steps the administration is taking to boost biofuels production in the United States.  The President’s Biofuels Interagency Working Group released a report spelling out wa ...