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  • Va. Lawmakers to Bar Home Seizure for Private Uses

    06/26/2005 12:28:12 PM PDT · by FreeKeys · 139 replies · 4,607+ views
    WTOP Radio News ^ | June 25, 2005 | Bob Lewis
    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Shocked at a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows cities to raze homes so developers can build private hotels, malls and office parks on the land, state lawmakers called for legislation to ban the practice Friday. The high court split 5-4 in a Connecticut case Thursday that under the Fifth Amendment, municipalities could take private property for private development because the project in question met a public purpose: creating jobs and revenue. But in an impassioned dissent, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the court majority had forsaken the middle class and gutted the American principle...
  • CA: LEGISLATIVE ALERT: SB840 -- socialized Medicine

    05/17/2005 11:21:34 PM PDT · by HKMk23 · 55 replies · 9,117+ views
    CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE ALERT RE: SB 840 – Socialized Medicine Author: Senator Sheila Kuehl Position: Strongly OPPOSE Status: In California State Senate Summary of Concerns: SB 840 is an aggressive plan to bring socialized medicine into California by replacing private health insurance with a mandatory state-run program for every California resident. SB 840 will: 1) force every California resident above poverty level to pay a state insurance premium (hidden tax); 2) destroy the current system of choices of health care coverage; 3) drive up the cost of health care coverage; 4) reduce the quality of health care available; 5) reduce the...