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A ruling too far : Supreme Court gives home-rule cities alarming power
Rocky Mountain News ^
| June 5, 2008
Posted on 06/05/2008 6:44:27 PM PDT by george76
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posted on
06/05/2008 6:44:35 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
Lib judges - they see penumbras.
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posted on
06/05/2008 6:53:57 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: george76
Can we condemn Aspen and turn it
back into a productive mine?
Can we condemn Denver and turn it into a Buffalo Commons?
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posted on
06/05/2008 6:59:08 PM PDT
by
Solitar
("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
To: george76
They can condemn land owned by people who can’t even vote for them. Annexation without representation.
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posted on
06/05/2008 7:18:05 PM PDT
by
bluegirl
To: george76; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ...
...use eminent domain to seize 600 acres of private property sitting outside the town limits.
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.
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posted on
06/05/2008 7:38:34 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: Solitar
Sounds like one of the people making comments on the editorial agrees with you. He said
Colorado Springs should condemn Boulder and turn it into a sewage treatment plant. Ft Collins should condemn Telluride and turn it into a garbage dump.
Highlands Ranch should condemn Aspen and turn it into "free range parking space" for Hummers.
The state would be better off that way.
LOL!
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posted on
06/05/2008 7:38:37 PM PDT
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: traviskicks
telluride’s
do-do does not stink!
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posted on
06/05/2008 7:40:40 PM PDT
by
ken21
( people die + you never hear from them again.)
To: Da Coyote
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posted on
06/05/2008 8:30:40 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(Freep and Ye shall find.)
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To: george76
Similar thing was tried in Pennsylvania...though the attempt to annex neighboring property was blocked! :-)
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posted on
06/05/2008 9:35:31 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: Gondring
It is all over the country.
How was it blocked in Penna. ?
I remember a guy who owned a lot in a subdivision where the city ( in South Carolina ? ) denied him his rights to build his home. He had been paying the taxes, but no.
He took it to the US Supreme Court.
I forgot the outcome, but he spent tons on legal fees.
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posted on
06/05/2008 9:43:08 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
How was it blocked in Penna. ?See http://www.saveourfarm.com/.
Don't let the peanut gallery hear, but it was libertarian/conservative editors of local newspaper(s), in large part, getting the word out.
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posted on
06/05/2008 10:01:04 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: george76
What is the procedure for amending the Colorado Constitution?
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posted on
06/05/2008 11:05:07 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(We have people in power with desire for evil.)
To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
The dispute arose when Telluride officials condemned the Valley Floor parcel, which frames the entrance to Telluride, to preserve it as open space. The landowner - who wanted to build a golf course and a resort - challenged the condemnation in district court and lost. Last year a jury valued the property at $50 million.
Thanks geo.
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posted on
06/05/2008 11:23:51 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: traviskicks
IIRC, the accompanying quote was “DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL!”
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posted on
06/06/2008 1:34:50 AM PDT
by
HKMk23
(Only The Tribulation is a crucible sufficient to the emergence of a Bride fit for her Bridegroom God)
To: george76
Atlas Puked...
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posted on
06/06/2008 3:49:10 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©® - CTHULHU/SHOGGOTH '08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
To: traviskicks
burt and I have about the same feelings on Eminent Domain...
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posted on
06/06/2008 5:08:53 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Carry_Okie
It is too easy. Just a majority.
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posted on
06/06/2008 6:35:15 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Just a majority. Are you talking by initiative or legislative action?
Yuck, what a mess that Constitution must be by now. It could be as bad as California's.
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posted on
06/06/2008 6:47:20 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(We have people in power with desire for evil.)
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