Editor’s Note: This “Sustainable Developments ” column will be printed in the December 2008 issue of Scientific American.

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* Blackouts and Cascading Failures of the Global Markets (Jeffrey D. Sachs, Scientific American)

Editor’s Note: This is the extended version of the “Sustainable Developments” column from the January 2009 issue of Scientific American.

* Protesters disrupt foreclosure auctions in Sacramento (Jim Wasserman, Sacramento Bee)

Protesters disrupted several foreclosure auctions Tuesday on the Sacramento County Courthouse steps, winning a temporary cancellation of one and sending an unidentified auctioneer to the hospital with chest pains.

* Sympathetic Victims? (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note) (Gwen Moritz, Arkansas Business)

Our recent story about people who invested tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock peddled by Darrell Lainhart of Sherwood included several sympathetic victims: A woman who needs the $30,000 her husband invested because hes now in a nursing home with Alzheimers disease, a disabled veteran, a man who hoped to become a full-time missionary.

* Treasure Coast homes sales increase, but at lower prices (Paul Ivice, Jupiter Courier)

Realtor sales of existing homes in St. Lucie and Martin counties in March nearly mirrored statewide numbers, with a 27 percent increase in sales but a 30 percent drop in the median price compared with a year ago.

* Assessing the future of the Cal Neva Resort and Casino (Annie Flanzraich, N Lake Tahoe Bonanza)

Nev. Since the Cal Neva Resort, Spa and Casinos bidder-free, two-state auction earlier this month, more than 25 new interested investors have inquired about the hotel and casino, said Steve Sugarman, a spokesman for owner Canyon Capital Realty Advisors.

* April 1939 (Kayla Dowdy, WCLU)

Home Agent Given Hearty Welcome. A large delegation of leading farm women of Barren County gathered at the Court House in Glasgow Tuesday to meet Miss Frances Brock, the new Home Agent for Barren County. Miss Brock outlined the work that would be attempted and discussed details of the work of the Home Makers Clubs that will be organized over the County. Delegations asking for immediate organ…

* Stocks surge as S&P 500 erases losses for the year (Gatehouse Media, The Independent)

* Is recession on the wane? (Jeannine Aversa, Courier-Journal)

* Subprime lobbyists in $370m battle (Edward Luce, The Financial Times)

* Senate moves toward easing mortgage terms (Anne Flaherty, Muscatine Journal)

* Editorial: Predatory lending bill needs to be refined (Gatehouse Media, Evening Times)

* View of the Day: Markets make feverish recovery (Kevin Gardiner, The Financial Times)

* Urban Policy (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 29 April 2009) (Public Radio, WNYC)

* House prices have fallen by �45000 from peak Halifax says (Harry Wallop, Telegraph)

* Fed chief: Economy to revive in ’09 (Jeannine Aversa, Columbus Dispatch)

* L.I. POL TOOK CASH FOR CONTRACTS (Kieran Crowley, New York Post)

Regulators have told Wells Fargo it may need to shore up its finances after government “stress tests” showed the bank would have trouble surviving a deeper recession.

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* In Bank Demolition Echoes of the Great Depression (Emily Friedlander, Wall Street Journal)

In an image that echoes scenes of the Great Depression, a Texas bank has just finished up demolishing 16 new and partially built houses it acquired in Southern California through foreclosure. The bank determined that wrecking the homes was more cost-effective than finishing and selling them.

* Report: Too many recyclables in city’s dump (Brian Nearing, Times Union)

Too much paper that ought to be recycled is winding up in the city’s Rapp Road dump, according to a consultant’s report.

* Paying flooding costs with no flood insurance (Brandi Hodges, KAIT)

With more rain on the way folks are wasting no time ripping out what the floods destroyed. For some, cleaning up could clean out their bank accounts. Some people who live along the flooded areas of Trumann have flood insurance but others do not. Insurance is available but it does come at a cost.

* Who really killed bankruptcy reform? (Emily.Flitter, American Banker)

The banking industry expressed grave fears over the mortgage cramdown legislation that failed in a Senate vote last week , but a post-mortem on the scene makes that anxiety seem a little overhyped. With so many different groups vying to kill the legislation, the vote last week was never a nail-biter.

* Police: New system will cut down on false alarms (Lee Mc Guire, KHOU)

Every day, Houston police respond to nearly 300 burglar and panic alarms. Each of those alarms takes two officers nearly an hour to deal with, and almost every one of those calls is false.

* Empty neighborhoods fill Rust Belt (Dan Sewell, The Washington Examiner)

Painted murals spruce up a boarded-up building on Race St. in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday, April 9, 2009. The neighborhood, which took its name from early German immigrants, is highlighted by its 19th century Italianate architecture. Now, roughly two of every three homes there are vacant or used by squatters in some streches. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

* New homeowner finds homicide victim on her porch (Mark Bowes, Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Serena Hamilton and her boyfriend thought they had found the perfect fixer-upper after moving to Richmond from Pennsylvania in December.

* Bankers Worry: Worst Is Yet To Come (David Wessel, Wall Street Journal)

New loans may be profitable, given how cheaply banks can borrow today. But many banks are still worrying about whether they ll get paid back on old loans.

* Town cracks down on tax delinquents (Bettina Thiel, Lewisboro Ledger)

The town is moving to pressure tax delinquents into paying up their tax debt in an effort to raise revenue.

* Shock jock banned from UK to sue Home Secretary (Tom Whitehead., Telegraph)

American DJ Michael Savage made the threat as it emerged the majority of people named and shamed on a new Home Office exclusion list has never applied to come to the UK in the first place.

* Notices of Valuation in the mail (Peter Jones, Colorado Community Newspapers)

Arapahoe County property owners should be receiving their notices of valuation from the county soon and will have the opportunity to appeal their property values.

* Collect your water in a rain barrel (Carole Fader, Florida Times-Union)

Rainwater collection in rain barrels is one good way to help keep your garden, grass and wallet green, said Devon Ritch of Earth Works, a landscape and garden center on Jacksonville’s Southside.

* Collect your water in a rain barrel (Carole Fader, Florida Times-Union)

Rainwater collection in rain barrels is one good way to help keep your garden, grass and wallet green, said Devon Ritch of Earth Works, a landscape and garden center on Jacksonville’s Southside.

Dear Harry: Something has concerned me for a long time as a single taxpayer. I realized that the government encourages marriage for whatever reasons, even though the divorce rate is in the 50 percent area. It’s clearly unfair for the government to tax me more than a married individual considering that my responsibilities as a single person are actually more than a married man. For example, the …

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Dear Harry: Something has concerned me for a long time as a single taxpayer. I realized that the government encourages marriage for whatever reasons, even though the divorce rate is in the 50 percent area. It’s clearly unfair for the government to tax me more than a married individual considering that my responsibilities as a single person are actually more than a married man. For example, the …

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After months of preparation and practice, Harrisonburgs first all womens flat track roller derby team took to the rink at Funkys Skate Center for a bout against the Charlottesville Derby Dames. Formed in February 2008, the Rocktown Rollers are an eclectic group, consisting of branch managers, account executives, teachers, realtors, nurses and mothers.

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