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Fresno Mayor Alan Autry said Thursday that his plan to help Donald Trump buy Running Horse would require pledging city property as collateral.

Locals become vocal with D-38 over Wissler Ranch By: Nicole Osborn, Tri-Lakes Tribune04/18/2006 Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly Tensions were high when residents gathered at Lewis-Palmer High School both Tuesday and Wednesday night of last week to discuss School District 38's quest to find a solution to overcrowding at the school. The Save Wissler Ranch group - consisting of residents in support of keeping 60 acres sought by the school district for a second high school in the hands of the current owner, 87-year-old Marie Wissler - hosted a meeting on Tuesday, April 11, to get a sense of...

In a rare display of unanimity that cuts across partisan and geographic lines, lawmakers in virtually every statehouse across the country are advancing bills and constitutional amendments to limit use of the government's power of eminent domain to seize private property for economic development purposes. The measures are in direct response to the United States Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision last June in a landmark property rights case from Connecticut, upholding the authority of the City of New London to condemn homes in an aging neighborhood to make way for a private development of offices, condominiums and a hotel. It was...

The nation's Republican mayors, in a closed-door White House meeting last week, nearly unanimously supported the U.S. Supreme Court's Kelo decision permitting local governments to force property owners to sell or give way to private developers. The GOP mayors, in Washington for the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting, heard a report on the Kelo decision by Dearborn, Mich., Mayor Michael A. Guido. Chairman of the conference's advisory board, Guido opposed undermining the Supreme Court's ruling. Anaheim, Calif., Mayor Curt Pringle, a former speaker of the California Assembly, objected with arguments that reflected widespread Republican abhorrence of Kelo. Guido insisted...

Local rules are the big threat to private property in NH By JIM DANNIS YOUR TURN, NH 8 hours, 2 minutes ago THE LEGISLATURE is working hard to limit the use of eminent domain for private development. Thankfully, that hasn't happened much in New Hampshire. But there is a much more serious and common risk for New Hampshire property owners — zoning and land use rules taking away property values. Here's how it works. You wake up one morning in March, just after town meeting, and find that your seven acre field can no longer be subdivided because of a...

One Giant Leap Toward Fascist America, Edward Hudgins, Executive Director, The Objectivist Center, ehudgins@objectivistcenter.org The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing a local government to kick out of the house in which she was born 87 year old Wilhelmina Dery and her husband who has lived there with her for 60 years. Why? Because the government wants to seize their property, bulldoze theirs and many other houses and to sell the land to other businesses and developers for private uses. While one must take great care in choosing words in political discussions, one must not mince them either. This decision in...

Pa. high court refuses to hear case to save Saha family's Chesco farm Officials say the 48-acre parcel is key to revitalizing Coatesville. The family has now run out of legal options. Associated Press The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a Chester County family fighting to save its 48-acre horse farm from being turned into a golf course. Dick and Nancy Saha of Valley Township have been battling for more than four years to prevent the city of Coatesville from seizing their land for a recreation complex. "It's devastating," Rick Saha, the couple's son, said...