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Taking from the Middle Class to Give to the Rich, June 23, 2008
Kay Brooks writes, powerfully, about how the city of Nashville is trying to take an elderly woman's property in order to benefit a wealthy out-of-town developer. Says Brooks:"The city needs to quit being the gun at the head of Miss...
Nashville Seeks to Take Private Property To Benefit Private Developer, June 21, 2008
There's a disturbing story in today's Tennessean about how the city of Nashville is trying to take a woman's private property and give it to a wealthy developer. This is the post-Kelo world we live in, a world in which...
Blogging the NCSL Annual Meeting, August 16, 2006
State Rep. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, is blogging from the National Conference of State Legislatures' annual convention, which is in Nashville this year. He reports here on a session on eminent domain reform in the wake of the Supreme Court's misbegotten...
Blogs and the Kelo Decision, July 18, 2006
National Journal takes a look at the role of blogs in the ongoing debate over eminent domain and the Kelo decision nationally and from state to state. Here in Tennessee, blogs played a role in exposing U.S. Rep. Harold Ford...
Ford's Radio Lies: Update, July 11, 2006
Stacey Campfield reported Monday on the fallout from the lie U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. told on a recent Knoxville radio program:On The Voice radio show [Monday] a huge chunk of the show was spent talking about the Ford interview...
Positively Flattering, July 7, 2006
All I have to say is, if this is true, I'm flattered and I want the audio of that show. Oh, and yes, the audio mentioned in the blog post is indeed archived at BillHobbs.com. You can find it here....
An Example of Why Eminent Domain Reform Is Needed, June 28, 2006
Nashvillians Kenneth and Toni Eaton used to own a used car lot in downtown Nashville. It was their property - until the day that the Metro Development and Housing Authority decided to take the Eaton's property and let a private...
A Kelo Executive Order, June 24, 2006
President Bush has issued an executive order that might be a positive step toward eminent domain reform. Or it might not be:The political backlash against the Supreme Court's decision Kelo v. City of New London has largely fallen short of...
One Year After Kelo, Tennessee Private Property Owners Still At Risk, June 22, 2006
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research has released an assessment of how well Tennessee private property owners are protected from governmental abuse of eminent domain powers a year after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Kelo decision which empowered governments to...
The Kelo Effect, June 9, 2006
The small town of Millersville, TN, is trying to stop a Christian ministry from locating on the town's main drag, even though it has already leased the building and current zoning ordinances permit it. The reason: The town wants to...
Nashville Government Seized Private Property for Condos, May 31, 2006
A year ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial Kelo decision which empowers state and local governments to use eminent domain to seize private property in order to give it to a private developer to redevelop, for...
State Senate Fails the People On Eminent Domain Reform, May 26, 2006
Joe Lance of TennesseeTicket.com has written an excellent essay on how the state legislature decided not to give the people of Tennessee any real protection against governmental abuse of its eminent domain power in the wake of the U.S. Supreme...
Tennessean: Domain bill's tough talk has holes, May 12, 2006
"A bill designed to make it harder for the government to seize private property talks big but may not deliver the goods," reports today's Tennessean. That's not surprising. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Kelo decision empowering governments...
Kelo Update, November 6, 2005
Nathan Moore celebrates the passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of HR 4128, the Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2005, which partially remedies the damage done to private property rights in America by the Supreme Court's Kelo decision....
Fighting Temptation, October 8, 2005
Today's Tennessean reports on efforts to protect Tennessee property owners against excessive use of government's eminent domain powers in the wake of the Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London decision, which essentially empowers government to take private property for any...
Positively Negative, October 6, 2005
U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. called the Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London decision a "positive" ruling, but Blogging For Bryant has a roundup of some of the negative impacts. Much more on Kelo here....
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