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• The Daily Report

  Op-ed Flashback: Adding Accountability To Eminent Domain

  Next American City | Fri, Aug 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: eminent domain, urban renewal, new london, fort trumbull, annie lux | 0

  Annie Lux describes New London’s use of eminent domain in the 1960s and its use to reclaim the same land four decades later.

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  Eminent Domain the Domain of GOP Candidates?

  Mike Muller | Fri, Feb 29th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: mike muller, john mccain, gop, eminent domain, mike huckabee, ron paul, kelo v. new london | 2

  The idea that the government can condemn private property for what it views as the public good has been a source of contention for years. But when the Supreme Court ruled in 2005 in Kelo v. New London that the city in Connecticut could use its powers of eminent domain to take private land for another private development, a new national debate raged.

  John McCain latched on to the issue for a while. In August, he pledged “To appoint strict constructionist judges who respect the…

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• Headlines

  A Friday In Pictures and Words

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Feb 22nd, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, gentrification, baltimore, harlem, eminent domain, pictures, friday, cloverleaf, tree-oriented planning, historic zone, university of vermont, snowfall, words, skywalk, tenant | 0

  ”The First Real Snowfall of the Season”

  

  Baltimore Votes Against Eminent Domain

  The Baltimore City Planning Commission voted against the West Covington Urban Renewal Plan by a 7-to-1 vote Thursday night, sending the redevelopment proposal to City Council with the suggestion of eliminating eminent domain from the plan. The commissioners were in agreement that the plan presented a needed redevelopment opportunity for the city, but they couldn’t approve of the plan because it…

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• The Daily Report

  Boise’s successful west end project

  Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Feb 8th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, eminent domain, boise, boise west end project, jason stotts, ada county highway district | 0

  They get it in Idaho: multi-use urban developments are a concept that everyone, not just high-brow academics, can understand and contribute to. Renovating under-developed and deteriorating neighborhoods doesn’t have to involve the threats of “eminent domain” or the public relations facade of concern for “the greater good.” In Boise’s West End, a low-income neighborhood sandwiched between an ambitious downtown area and the Boise River, developers are sitting at the same table with…

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• Headlines

  Ghost malls, Bill Cosby is wrong, Canada’s foresight, High Line Park video, more

  Hayley Richardson | Fri, Jan 11th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hayley richardson, eminent domain, ghost malls, high line park, bill cosby, drew carey, canada's foresight | 0

  Check this out: Drew Carey (who knew?) examines eminent domain abuse in Los Angeles:

  Yikes, Ghost Malls!

  “The retail real estate market has already started to slow. In the third quarter of 2007, 7.4 percent of retail space nationwide was vacant, according to Reis Inc. A vacancy rate of 7.4 percent isn’t tragic by any means. But it’s the highest level since 2002, and it’s up from 6.8 percent at the end of 2005. The third quarter of 2007 marked “the tenth consecutive quarter of…

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• The Daily Report

  A New York-centric Thursday, New Orleans Schools, Charlotte’s Ghettos, MORE

  Hayley Richardson | Thu, Dec 13th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, headlines, eminent domain, tolls, salt lake city, columbia, ghettos, crescent city, new york-centric thursday, ethnic neighborhoods, east river, charlotte suburbs | 0

  Columbia Vows Not to Use Eminent Domain

  “Columbia University officials testified Wednesday that they won’t use eminent domain - or evictions - against residential properties or tenants in its $7billion campus expansion. Questioned at a City Council hearing, Robert Kasdin, Columbia’s senior executive vice president, asserted, “Under no condition will Columbia University use eminent domain against any residential properties.”

  But they still left open using the government…

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• The Daily Report

  Fred Thompson’s Record on Eminent Domain

  Mike Muller | Tue, Nov 13th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: mike muller, eminent domain, fred thompson, federal register, executive order, marion county, thompson against eminent domain | 0

  Settling for Narrow Regulation; Support for a Ban on Funds for States Allowing Eminent Domain for Private Use; A Missed Chance.
  

  One grim morning in 1998, about 50 property owners in the rolling hills of Marion County, Tennessee, woke up to the news that a private gas company was trying to take part of their land for a natural gas pipeline. The company, US Gypsum, had been given the authority of eminent domain by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who saw more benefits in the…

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