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But because the internet can be used to deliver brokerage services more efficiently – resulting in better service and lower costs to consumers – brokers who use the internet represent a competitive challenge to traditional brokers. Some brokers are therefore unwilling to participate in the scheme.
According to the Justice Department, the NAR developed a policy that required NAR-affiliated MLSs to adopt rules that will allow brokers to withhold their clients' listings from other brokers' websites by means of an opt-out.
In essence, NAR's policy enabled traditional brokers to block their competitors' customers from having full online access to all of the MLS's listings. When exercised, the opt-out provision prevents web-based brokers from providing all MLS listings that respond to a customer's search, effectively inhibiting the new tec...
“The purchase of a home is one of the most significant financial decisions a family can make, and NAR's policy stifles competition to advantage some of its members at the expense of home buyers and sellers across the country," said J Bruce McDonald, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department's Antitrust Divisi...
The Justice Department has therefore filed suit – on the very day that the NAR announced a revised policy.
According to the NAR, its new policy will ensure that all MLS property listing data available for display will automatically be available to all MLS members unless a member notifies the MLS in advance that he or she does not want to participate. In that case, none of the listings he or she enters into the MLS will be a...
The new policy also contains an entirely new feature that allows brokers who have opted out of displaying their listings on competitors’ websites the opportunity to make an exception at the direction of a particular seller who wants to have his or her property displayed on the websites of all other members of the MLS.
“After months of negotiations, we are at a loss to understand why the Department of Justice would bring a legal action," said the NAR in a statement. "Many of the changes incorporated in the new policy are in direct response to concerns they have raised over the course of the two-year investigation."
But the revised policy does not go far enough, according to the Justice Department.
The complaint alleges that NAR's policy significantly alters the rules that govern MLSs by permitting traditional brokers to discriminate against other brokers based on their business model, denying them the full benefits of MLS participation. The lawsuit seeks to ensure that traditional brokers, through NAR's policy, ...
WHITTIER – The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the second reading of an ordinance that will require owners of vacant lots to install landscaping and irrigation systems and ensure they are free of litter.
Owners of lots larger than one acre will also have to install some kind of fence blocking the view into the property and maintain a minimum 10-foot landscape planter adjacent to all streets and alleys.
The council amended it to limit fences around such lots to six feet high. If any owner wanted to build a higher fence, they would need city approval.
WHITTIER – The Whittier City Council’s Tuesday meeting has been canceled.
The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Jan. 22.
For more information, call City Hall, (562) 9458-8200.
WHITTIER – Jim Kurkowski, Whittier parks director, will speak on “The Trees of Whittier” at the noon Wednesday meeting of the John Greenleaf Whittier Chapter of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.
The group meets at Friendly Hills Country Club, 8500 S. Villaverde Drive, Whittier. Cost is $15. For reservations, call Betty Bihr, (562) 698-1520.
LA MIRADA – The city’s Senior Mentoring Program starts its winter session Jan. 21.
Volunteers are needed to tutor children in grades one to five. Under the program, older adults are paired with students for the two-month session. Mentoring takes place at the Family Services Center, Frontier Park, Gardenhill Park and Windermere Park.
Applicants fill out a Volunteers in Action form in the Family Services Center, 13710 La Mirada Blvd.
Orientation and fingerprinting will be scheduled upon receipt of the application.
SANTA FE SPRINGS – Looking to dispose of household hazardous waste?
A waste roundup will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Rio Hondo Fire Training Academy, 11400 Greenstone Ave., Santa Fe Springs.
Items that won’t be accepted include electronic and hazardous waste from businesses, trash, tires, refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, explosives, ammunition and radioactive materials. For more information, call (888) CLEAN LA or the La Mirada Public Works Department at (562) 902-2385.
presented by the La Mirada Chamber of Commerce.
The event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Select, 14299 Firestone Blvd., La Mirada.
Dignitaries from La Mirada including County Supervisor Don Knabe and representatives from Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Lakewood, and from Assemblyman Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, will present the annual state of the community address.
Lunch is $30 per person. Those who don’t want to have lunch may arrive at noon to hear the presentation for free.
Theatre from noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Whittier Public Library, 7344 S. Washington Ave.
The program is free. Bring a lunch or enjoy beverages and cookies provided by The Friends of the Whittier Library.
The rap star bested Drizzy's pretty impressive chart record.
(AllHipHop News) Future has overtaken his rapper pal Drake to score the most U.S. chart-toppers on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums countdown in the past decade.
Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD has debuted at the top of the Billboard ranking, earning him his ninth number one, and putting him one ahead of Drake, having previously tied with eight apiece, including their joint 2015 release, What a Time to Be Alive.
Chris Brown, The Weeknd, J. Cole, and The Game are all hot on their heels, tying at three with five number ones each since 2010.
However, all artists have a little way to go before claiming the title on the all-time Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart-toppers list, which is currently held by The Temptations, who have 16 to date.
Australia is ramping up its commitment to the Pacific, opening several new diplomatic posts and establishing a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure bank for projects in the region.
Scott Morrison will declare it is time to "open a new chapter in relations with our Pacific family"
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is set to announce his pivot to the Pacific as he prepares to meet regional leaders at the APEC forum in Papua New Guinea.
In a speech to be delivered today, Mr Morrison will declare it is time to "open a new chapter in relations with our Pacific family".
"Australia has an abiding interest in a Southwest Pacific that is secure strategically, stable economically and sovereign politically," an advance copy of his speech said.
"This is not just our region, or our neighbourhood. It's our home."
The centrepiece of Mr Morrison's announcement is expected to be the establishment of a $2 billion infrastructure bank for the Pacific.
The Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility would issue grants and long-term loans for "high priority" projects including telecommunications, energy, transport and water.
To complement the new fund, the Government plans to give Australia's export financing agency access to an extra $1 billion to invest in projects "which has a broad national benefit for Australia".
Mr Morrison's announcement follows a similar pledge from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten last week and highlights the growing concerns about China's rising influence in the region.
The Coalition has previously been accused of failing to take the region seriously after Mr Morrison downgraded the Pacific portfolio in his ministry and skipped the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru.
But like Labor, the Government is stepping up its commitment.
Mr Morrison will today pledge to open diplomatic missions in Palau, the Marshall Islands, French Polynesia, Niue and the Cook Islands, and strengthen defence cooperation in the region.
Australia will set up a permanent Defence Force training team for the Pacific, and increase its Navy deployments and exercises.
It comes a week after Mr Morrison promised to jointly develop a naval base on Manus Island with Papua New Guinea in another sign of the shift in his Government's foreign policy priorities.
GreenSync is a global energy-tech company, connecting millions of flexible, unscheduled or ‘behind the meter’ energy resources to transform electricity grids. GreenSync is delivering new business models for managing national power systems and transforming commercial realities of electricity use.
We believe in innovation. We believe we can change the world. We believe in creating the future of energy, today.
Collaborating closely with our UX Designer, you will lead the UI/Visual Design function within GreenSync to create and define visual elements, product elements and overall design. You will build out wireframes and storyboards to conceptualise design and create a cohesive and user-centric style for our deX products.
You will work with Product Managers, UX and Developers to build out scenarios, end-to-end experiences making deliberate design decisions for intuitive interaction.
Expertise in software such as Sketch, Axure, InVision, UXPin or similarAbility to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
Now that we have the important things out of the way, we should probably mention we offer flexible working, enhanced annual leave provisions and professional membership reimbursements. Forgot breakfast? No worries! We have a fully stocked kitchen (with snacks!) Want to ditch the car? Great – we have a centrally located...
We also love it when people from all backgrounds apply to be part of our diverse and inclusive team as GreenSync offers Equal Employment Opportunities.
Desperate to fund its seemingly-endless legal battle for Unix copyrights against Novell and others, SCO Group has found someone willing to buy the bankrupt company's mobile assets - and it's none other than Darl McBride, the former SCO chief executive sacked as a result of his ruinous crusade to claim Unix.
Groklaw has flagged up that SCO's Chapter 11 trustee, Edward Cahn has proposed to punt the shell-of-a-company's mobility biz to Mobility Inc. Holdings (MIH), a firm created by McBride for the sole purpose of buying the assets, for the chump change value of $35,000.
The sale of SCO's mobility business would include source code to HipCheck, a smartphone app for remote monitoring of Unix and Windows systems, and Shout mobile voice messaging tools. It also includes 12 servers, 13 domain names, and 10 developer smartphones. MIH's down payment would be $5,000, with the remaining paid u...
According to court documents, the terms do provide for MIH to pony up a maximum of $60,000 in "income participation" payments to SCO in the (extremely unlikely) event that revenues generated from the mobility business reach over $1m in a year.
The filing states that after McBride offered to buy the mobility group, SCO's trustee group compiled a list of 12 "targets" that might also have an interest in buying the biz. It said that over a two-week period, the group attempted to email or telephone ("or both") the targets, except for one that could not be reached...
In the end, none of the targets indicated real interest in purchasing the SCO's mobility wing. As Groklaw astutely points out - the trustee group will likely to have spent more than $35k on the billable hours just for pitching and concluding the sale.
With the midterm elections now in the rear-view, we continue to have this nagging thought: If President Trump appears to be headed toward defeat in his presumed bid for re-election, which is he more likely to do: Give a graceful concession speech, and resume his wheeling-dealing life, or claim that the election was sto...
Some may call this neurotic speculation. Unfortunately, the facts compel us to consider that the second option is a definite possibility. The first option, which has been the choice of every American President defeated for reelection, runs counter to Trump’s personality and distorted view of our constitutional democrac...
In 2016, when he thought he would lose, Trump threatened to reject the outcome as “rigged.” This year, in support of Florida senatorial candidate Rick Scott and a slew of other Republicans, the President bellowed about “fraud,” “stolen elections” and the like — all but guaranteeing that a Democratic victory would not b...
We have never seen this level of attack on the legitimacy of our elections from the White House. In 1960, then-Vice President Richard Nixon had every reason to believe that Sen. John Kennedy’s supporters fixed the outcome in Illinois and Texas, but, nevertheless, gave short shrift to Republican election lawyers who wis...
Similarly, Vice President Al Gore undoubtedly felt that the Supreme Court’s ruling against him in 2000 was not justified, but congratulated Gov. George W. Bush nonetheless. President Gerald Ford similarly accepted defeat gracefully upon losing his race by a very close margin.
Indeed, in every election since 1800, when President John Adams lost a bitter race to his own vice president, Thomas Jefferson, presidential losers — whether or not they actually believed in the outcome — stepped aside. Armed forces have never been called out to protect the White House; supporters of a losing candidate...
Vehement feelings were expressed; marches and protests occurred. But, unlike so many other countries, peaceful succession has always prevailed.
There is no doubt Trump will soon start raising the specter that the 2020 election is going to be rigged against him, thus attempting to lay a dubious legal groundwork for his refusal to leave office if he is defeated.
After all, if he loses, it is highly unlikely that he would retire to a life of philanthropy or building houses, as former Presidents have done. Instead, he and those closest to him may face years of litigation on issues ranging from their relationship with Russia to a variety of questionable real estate dealings. For ...
Can’t happen here? In politics, as in most of life, the unimaginable can become real very quickly. All we need to do is take a quick look around the world at other countries as parliaments and courts have been upended by autocrats.
The first step in ensuring that this nightmare scenario does not occur is to understand its possibility. Our constitutional democracy’s survival may depend upon it.
Garfield County Commisioner Candidate Paula Stepp answer questions at the Questions and Answers Forum at the Glenwood Springs City Hall on Wednesday evening.
Potential voters packed Glenwood Springs City Hall for a standing room only candidates and issues forum Wednesday evening which hosted spirited discussions between local candidates, including the headlining debate between Republican Garfield County Commissioner Tom Jankovsky and his challenger, Democrat Paula Stepp.
Campaign slogans aside, the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association’s Issues and Answers Forum, moderated by KMTS News Director Ron Milhorn drilled to the heart of significant issues facing Garfield County residents.
It did not take long before natural gas drilling struck up a heated debate between Stepp and Jankovsky.
“I sit in the middle of that and I weigh both sides,” Stepp added.
Clearly unsatisfied with his opponent’s answer, when it was Jankovsky’s turn, the Republican’s face appeared as red as his tie.
“Let’s take the fire district in Battlement Mesa-Parachute; 85 percent of their revenues, property tax comes from oil and gas,” Jankovsky said.
Another contentious topic, the yet-to-be formally proposed strip mine expansion above Glenwood Springs, was also touched on.
Although Milhorn did not directly reference quarry owner Rocky Mountain Resources (RMR) in the question, Jankovsky clearly knew what the moderator was getting at.
“I think you are talking about the RMR quarry,” Jankovsky said, adding how the company, which acquires and develops natural resource assets, had yet to submit a formal application to the Bureau of Land Management.
Both very careful with their words out of fear of future disqualification from hearing any forthcoming strip mine expansion proposals, Stepp offered a similar response.
While short, all of the evening’s debates were cordial until closing statements from the county commissioner candidates, particularly that of Jankovsky. Milhorn even had to ask the audience to quiet down to let Jankovsky finish his criticism of Stepp.
Neither candidate offered to shake hands following the debate.
Brian Balthazar is joining AOL as executive producer and head of programming for AOL.com. Balthazar comes to AOL from HGTV, where he served as director of original programming and development. He had been with HGTV since 2008.
Prior to his time at HGTV, Balthazar worked at NBC, where he developed the fourth hour of the Today show.
Balthazar will join AOL in January.
NORWALK -- A joint meeting of the Connecticut PC Users Group and the Fairfield County Computer Users Group will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Norwalk Hospital, in the Richard Perkin Auditorium near the hospital entrance.
David Casceillo, director of client support in the IT department, will review steps being taken to implement electronic record keeping systems in order to improve patient care.
a.m. Tuesday at the Harry Bennett Branch, 115 Vine Road.
The program is for children ages 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 with an adult caregiver. The program includes stories, songs and movement. For information, call 351-8208.
STAMFORD -- Ferguson Library will hold an adult reading club discussion on "The Story of Forgetting" by Stefan Merrill Block at 7 p.m. Tuesday at its main branch, at Broad and Bedford streets.
For more information, call 351-8231.
NORWALK -- Sons of Italy will hold Men's Night at 7:30 p.m. Monday at 162 New Canaan Ave. Cost is $20 per person. Beverages are included in price. For reservations, call Fred at 853-0793 or Ron at 853-9730.
p.m. Monday at the Weed Memorial & Hollander Branch, 1143 Hope St.
The program is for children 3 1/2 and up to 8. The program includes stories and songs.

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