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Many local cities have contracts with private organizations to provide fair housing counseling for residents.  These contracts are intended to provide lower income renters in those cities with a resource for understanding their rights as tenants and avenues for redressing unfair and illegal treatment by landlords. In practice, however, a disturbing trend has emerged.  Under the guise of...

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Small business owners that are struggling to make ends meet sometimes need business loans - or a pawn shop. Pawn shop loans are now something that some business owners are turning to as a result of the tight economy and lack of lending. Pawning is probably easier than getting a bank loan, though the interest rates may be...

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Written by David Greenwald, Monday, 08 August Yolo Judicial Watch has analyzed newly available data on the number of prison inmates by county, and determined that Yolo County has a disproportionately high number of prison inmates compared to its size and crime rate. According to the data, there are 3.95 persons in prison from Yolo County per 1000...

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"NRA-ILA Legal Update" Newsletter Introduced Read more here: "NRA-ILA Legal Update" Newsletter Introduced

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If you offer your employees vacation time, you may be wondering whether and when you can deny a vacation request. To answer this question, you must understand that, while there may be state laws regulating how vacation time accumulates and is compensated, there is no law that requires employers to provide their employees with paid or unpaid time...

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Posted: 8/8/11 05:13 PM ET - Timothy P. Silard, President, Rosenberg Foundation At one time, Texas built prisons as fast as it possibly could. Now, the state is reforming its criminal justice system by focusing on community-based supervision, rehabilitation and treatment programs — and it is putting its money behind that plan. As a result, for the first time...

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9 August 2011 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged the world to recognize the right of indigenous peoples to control their intellectual property, saying they needed help to protect, develop and receive fair compensation for their cultural heritage and traditional knowledge. See more here: Ban urges greater appreciation of culture and creativity of indigenous peoples

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Marine scientists are to create 3D images of the seabed off the north of Scotland to help identify habitats that need conservation. Continue reading here: Scotland's seabed 3D images to 'help conserve habitats'

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. environmental group has praised Chile's ban on shark finning signed into law by President Sebastian Pinera. Excerpt from: U.S. group hails Chile's shark law

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The curlew, the wetland wader with the decurved bill and haunting call, has almost vanished from Ireland in a mere 20 years, in one of the most dramatic declines ever recorded for a bird in the British Isles. Go here to read the rest: Rapid decline could make curlew extinct in Ireland in decade