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• The Dallas Cowboy Wal-Mart Supercenter Continues To Perplex Me

  
  Durango Texas — Authority: 140
  See that white rectangle in the upper right of the picture? That is the Dallas Cowboy Stadium Wal-Mart Supercenter. This picture was taken in July of 2004. I was flying up to Seattle and when I realized the plane was going to fly directly over the worst case of eminent domain abuse in American history I got out my ...
  18 hours ago

• Atlantic Yards holdout Daniel Goldstein says he has a backup plan in case state takes condo

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 152
  NY Daily News reporter Ellen Durkin reports that Daniel Goldstein has started to think about Plan B, should he and his family get the boot. Goldstein said hes sticking with the fight to stop developer Bruce Ratners project - but he has begun to think about a "backup plan" if the state takes his condo by eminent ...
  23 hours ago

• ESDC representatives will testify at state Senate hearing on Columbia, eminent domain; four AY questions suggested

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 152
  Atlantic Yards Report Todays state Senate oversight hearing, "Unconstitutional: What the Appellate Division’s Eminent Domain Ruling Means for the Columbia Expansion," might get interesting: three representatives of the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) the state agency pursuing eminent domain in ...
  23 hours ago

• The future of property rights

  
  Libertarian Blog — Authority: 134
  http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/01/04/eminent-domain/ Although no major media outlet is covering this except Fox, this will be one of the most important cases of 2010.  If the city of Sea Tac is allowed to get by with this property theft, its another step toward the destruction of property rights, ...
  1 day ago

• Government Inc. leads to red ink for small business

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 548
     Column by Bob Goodlatte www.goodlatte.house.gov Four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in the now-notorious case of Kelo v. City of New London , which authorized the government to take private property from individuals for nearly any reason under the guise of eminent domain, ...
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• Syndicated columnist George Will calls for Court of Appeals to reconsider Atlantic Yards eminent domain case

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 152
  Atlantic Yards Report Norman Oder gives a critique of George Wills column on the use of "blight" to allow eminent domain abuse and also supplies some background on Wills position on this issue. Syndicated columnist George Will, a conservative who played a key role in bringing the controversial Kelo v. New ...
  3 days ago

• George Will: A blight grows in Brooklyn

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 152
  Merced Sun-Star Nationally-syndicated columnist George Will takes aim at the absurd "blight" designation used to justify eminent domain abuse in Prospect Heights. To seize the acres for Ratners use, government must claim that the area -- which is desirable because it is vibrant -- is "blighted." The cognitive ...
  3 days ago

• Columbia Gets a Lesson in Property Rights

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 152
  The Wall Street Journal By Julia Vitullo-Martin This editorial reviews the ruling this past December against Columbia Universitys use of eminent domain in its expansion into West Harlem. Questions about what might come next: How will the State Court of Appeals rule on the appeal and will it reopen Goldstein et ...
  3 days ago

• As China pursues development, "nail houses" are common, as property owners seek fair compensation

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 152
  Atlantic Yards Report If you think the Atlantic Yards condemnation battle is bitter, consider the situation in China, as the New York Times reports, in an article headlined Chinese Businesses Resist Eviction by Developers : Chinese newspapers are filled with stories of battles involving so-called ...
  4 days ago

• Goodlatte: Government, Inc. Leads to Red Ink for Our Nation’s Small Businesses

  
  Bearing Drift :: Virginia Politics On-Demand — Authority: 537
  Guest post by Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA06) Four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in the now-notorious case of Kelo v. City of New London, which authorized the government to take private property from individuals for nearly any reason under the guise of eminent domain, even to give to ...
  5 days ago

• ESDC files, shares condemnation petition, but condemnees will resist; will January 29 be the day its resolved?

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 152
  Atlantic Yards Report While its difficult to challenge a condemnation petition--"It has to be limited to procedural defects, and that’s rare," attorney Michael Rikon told me--the Empire State Development Corporations (ESDC) legal filing to take private (and public) property within the Atlantic Yards footprint ...
  5 days ago

• Here’s What Eminent Domain Looks Like, Atlantic Yards Version

  
  The New York Observer — Authority: 712
  As of last Wednesday, the state has officially filed in court to acquire the property in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards mega-development in Brooklyn, home-to-be of the Nets. The acquisitions are for much of the 22-acre site, as the states development agency, the Empire State Development Corporation, is seeking ...
  6 days ago

• Perkins sets hearing January 5 on Columbia University eminent domain case, need for reforms

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 152
  Atlantic Yards Report The Senate Standing Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, chaired by Senator Bill Perkins, will hold a hearing 4-7 pm on Tuesday, January 5, titled "Unconstitutional: What the Appellate Division’s Eminent Domain Ruling Means for the Columbia Expansion." While the ...
  6 days ago

• Minnesota City Utility Tried Forcing A New Wind Farm Through Eminent Domain And Failed

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 144
  Story at watchdog.org by Tom Steward~ ST. PAUL, MN—Christmas came early this week for several Minnesota farmers when state regulators unanimously rejected a permit for a controversial wind farm proposed by the City of New Ulm, which had threatened to use eminent domain authority for the first time on record ...
  1 week ago

• EMINENT DOMAINIA: The Big Apple Bites!

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 152
  The Brooklyn Paper , Judge puts breaks on Broadway Triangle by Andy Campbell A Manhattan Supreme Court justice halted all further operations in the “Broadway Triangle” last week, only one day after City Council voted in favor of rezoning the mostly commercial land into residential space. ...
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• 50 States Ranked By Personal Freedom

  
  Total Survivalist Libertarian Rantfest — Authority: 141
  We have all seen lists here and there which rank the 50 states in terms of this freedom or that freedom or somebodies opinion of what freedom is. Today I found myself going through Solo Survivalists blog . It was pretty interesting and definitely a place I will have to try and get back to. In any case I saw the link ...
  1 week ago

• Bars vs. Banks - Revolt is Declared! Barclays Bank and ACORN Can Go To Hell.

  
  No Land Grab — Authority: 152
  Brownstoner , Closing Bell: Freddys Bar - Heads Roll in Survival Fight Nets Daily , Arena Critics Turn Their Aim Towards Prokhorov, Russia
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• Eminent Domain – Chinese Style

  
  Behind Blue Lines — Authority: 124
  Think the Kelo decision trashed U.S. eminent domain law? Welcome to eminent domain – China style. Stealing is more like it.As reported in Sunday’s Washington Times, China’s “urban housing demolition law” is under increasing pressure after a couple of bitter recent protests ended with evictees setting ...
  1 week ago

• Fighting the Man: Last week, the owner of Freddys,...

  
  Eater NY — Authority: 156
  Last week, the owner of Freddys, the Brooklyn dive bar unfortunately located right within the Atlantic Yards footprint, installed "Chains of Justice" on the bar as a protest against the eminent domain ruling in favor of the Bruce Ratners development . Now hes taken his fight to a new, yet still ineffective, level by ...
  1 week ago

• The "Fightin Freddys" Declare Eminent Domain Smackdowns!

  
  Found in Brooklyn — Authority: 423
  Freddys is not going down without a fight!F.I.B passed by Freddys as a 9 foot guillotine constructed of Pabst Blue Ribbon cans symbolically decapitated Eminent Domain in a suit. Manager Donald OFinn spoke as did the grim reaper who questioned the cold war and called Bruce Ratner a "traitor to the country" by ...
  1 week ago

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