A Sad Display By OSU

The Daily Oklahoman ^ | 11-21-2005 | Tamara Colbert Maschino

[NonValueAdded]

Thank you for the excellent insight. I expected nothing less when I sent out the ping. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

[P8riot]

As popular as it has become to be outraged by eminent domain, there does exist occasions when it is either necessary, or meets the criteria established locally.

True, but property owners do not have to accept the initial offer for their properties. Eminent Domain seziures can be successfully appealed for (in most cases) a lot more than the initial offer.

What most folks don't realize is that appeals can be based on the future value of the proposed project that is the basis of the seziure. In cases that are appealed on that basis land owners can often reap as much as 10 to 15 times the initial offer.

Every one affected by this needs to enlist the services of attorneys who specialize in eminent domain cases.

[Artemis Webb]

Actually Bobbdobbs statement was a logical one.

If grandma didn't know that homes were being taken, as her daughter clearly stated then how could she "have complained when other people's houses were taken"?

It is obvious the poor old gal didn't have a clue what was going on which makes her prior opposition to the seizures impossible.

[DustyMoment]

Is this how the city of Stillwater and Oklahoma State University reward its longtime residents and senior citizens, by depriving them of the homes they have worked hard for?

Sadly, yes. Higher education isn't about learning, it's about being farm clubs for the pros.

This is just another lesson from the liberal college types who don't want to teach and don't want to provide any useful skills.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

The key is to keep in touch with "regular" Americans not the highbrow intellectual stuff shirts. Hopefully their children will keep them grounded in reality.

[Michael.SF.]

Not to worry, no offense was taken.

Take care

[Michael.SF.]

In cases that are appealed on that basis land owners can often reap as much as 10 to 15 times the initial offer.

Thanks for that, I was not aware of the magnitude of the potential increase.

Every one affected by this needs to enlist the services of attorneys who specialize in eminent domain cases.

Sound advice, and far better then what some other reactions may be.

[Calusa]

That is my Prayer.

[jonascord]

Angry_White_Man_Syndrome (my husband) is a student at OU.

And I can point to dozens of people who, although they have never been closer to a classroom than to drive down Lindsey Ave, speak of OU football in the first person plural. "We" and "Our". My point is that there are thousands of people around here that are so shallow that they must live vicariously through a school's sports team. The idea of flattening an old woman's home to build a parking lot for drunken high school dropouts makes perfect sense...

[PhiKapMom]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

[wolfcreek]

Is it the STATE of OK that is really doing this?

[Still Thinking]

Isn't Sandra Day O'Connor from Ok. I bet you her homestead is not in jeopardy from Kelo.

No, O'Connor is from AZ. I HOPE her home isn't in jeopardy, she voted against eminent domain in Kelo.

[Calusa]

Sorry I really choked on that post. Too much information to handle.

[Kellis91789]

Amazing how it becomes somebody else's problem that a university failed to plan ahead. They should have set aside land for expansion when it was built. If they did that, but the university has grown beyond what was planned for, then too bad. Time to build up instead of out. Or time to build a separate campus.

Grabbing people's homes for a "sports arena" is a really poor excuse. A sports arena is not even part of their primary mission -- education.

[aligncare]

We are so far down the socialism road that we no longer recognize the proper role of (American) government. The constitution made clear that role, but that is now made almost unrecognizable by years of the new and improved 'living constitution'. I never would have imagined the America I learned to love as an immigrant would come to this.

[Mark was here]

And how did you come to this conclusion? Crystal ball, gut feeling, or just pulling it out of you butt. I will take the same assumptive attitude that you took with her, you are probably a loser.

Someone hit a sore point with you?

LOL.

If your thin skin ever heals, realize most all of us have not done enough to fight E.D. abuse.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I have to hand it to Boortz on this. He's unwittingly been doing God's work on eminent domain.

"My mother recently received a letter that has shattered her belief in the justice of the world."

We have many serpents in this thorny garden. The question is, which serpent to weaken or kill first? In this case, I'd be preaching to the choir to say which.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"We are hearing about more and more of these acquisitions since they ruled on the Connecticut case. Disgusting!"

The tyrannical court system drank poison on this issue, IMO. They are never going to win the hearts, minds, or even a crumb of trust from the American People as more-and-more of these horror stories come out. Poke a sleeping lion enough times with a needle and you will learn what happens.

[GeronL]

colleges have eminent domain powers???? what the...???

Let them buy land on the free market like everyone else.