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BOILING SPRING LAKES, N.C., Sept. 23 (AP) — Over the past six months, landowners here have been clear-cutting thousands of trees to keep them from becoming homes for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. The chain saws started in February, when the federal Fish and Wildlife Service put Boiling Spring Lakes on notice that rapid development threatened to squeeze out the woodpecker. The agency issued a map marking 15 active woodpecker “clusters,” and announced it was working on a new one that could potentially designate whole neighborhoods of this town in southeastern North Carolina as protected habitat, subject to more-stringent building restrictions....

Residents: Proposed Yacht Marina Will Not Help Community POSTED: 10:05 am CDT July 21, 2004 UPDATED: 10:26 am CDT July 21, 2004 HOUSTON -- A Brazoria County coastal town has big plans to develop a marina to bring in money to the city, but the News2Houston Investigators reported Monday that some residents say all that money will go to the developer and not the community. In Freeport, local government is forcing businesses to sell their land to build a private yacht marina, the station reported.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Winston Churchill, October 29, 1941Yes folks, to the bitter disappointment of our detractors, the Sawgrass Rebellion is moving forward at Godspeed. We told you from the beginning we would not back down, and we meant it.On October 18th, 2002 the Property Rights Action Committee will be hosting a National Block Party/Yard Sale, and everyone in the...