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To: jpsb; pax_et_bonum
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The court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that cities may bulldoze people's homes or businesses to make way for shopping malls or other private development. The decision gives local governments broad power to seize private property to generate tax revenue.

"This is the last little piece of the puzzle to put the project together," Freeport Mayor Jim Phillips said of the project designed to inject new life in the Brazoria County city's depressed downtown area.

29 posted on 06/24/2005 10:27:22 AM PDT by Flyer (Nuthin' finer than a grackle crap marinade for fixin' those word famous Houston face fajitas)
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To: Flyer
"This is the last little piece of the puzzle to put the project together," Freeport Mayor Jim Phillips said...

This guy's historical perspective leaves something to be desired.

34 posted on 06/24/2005 10:30:21 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Three guys walked into a bar. The fourth one ducked.)
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To: Flyer

What they want to build is something like the Kemah Boardwalk, problem is no one will come. Kemah has a lot of people near by, Freeport (from now on Fasistport) does not.


40 posted on 06/24/2005 10:34:38 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (One man's Linux is another man's OS/2.)
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To: Flyer

Time to get some Ridley Sea turtles and keep them around the house.


96 posted on 06/25/2005 12:51:20 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Visit Club Gitmo - The World's Only Air-Conditioned Gulag.)
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