Well, the nervous biddy squad has officially invaded my town.

Yes, indeed. Setting off fireworks is now totally illegal in Benton, Ark. While towns run by city councils with a lick of sense generally make exceptions for people wanting to shoot off fireworks around the Fourth of July and New Year's Day, there is no such exception in place in my town.

And, man, does that suck.

You can read all about the ban here.

According to the National Association of Realtors has shown that most potential home buyers start their searches on the Internet.

The question, of course, is where should one begin that search? There are a lot of sites out there with property search engines, but which ones can get the information you want in a hurry and which ones are garbage, the products of scams or worse?

If you happen to be searching for Dallas homes for sale, finding a house is easy (just click the aforementioned link and you can search for Dallas real estate with ease).

So, get cracking -- search through Dallas homes for sale is easy and you can do it online from the convenience of your home.

There's been a lot of information floating around about the tax credits for first time and repeat home buyers lately.

Some of it has been great and some of has ... not been.

To put the record straight, here are a couple of links to articles with all kinds of information about the tax credits:

* Click here for an article about the extension of the closing date for the credits. That was signed into law and a post about that is here.

* Military personnel and some others have an extra year to buy homes and apply for the credit. Click here for information about that.

People diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer may be looking for a few words of encouragement.

For people who have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, some of that encouragement might come in the form of a book called Surviving Mesothelioma which was written by Paul Kraus. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 1997 and has survived the cancer.

The book is available for free (just click one of the above links) for a limited time. Kraus makes no guarantees that his book is a magic cure-all, a diagnosis guide or anything unreasonable like that -- he's just put together a book that might help some people looking for answers.

For information about Kraus and his free book, click one of the links in this post and pay the man's site a visit.