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The Tragedy of Urban Renewal
October 2, 2011, 8:07pmReason.tv has released an engaging and sobering video on the effects of urban renewal on America's inner cities in "The Tragedy of Urban Renewal."
Eminent Domain in the Old Dominion
In Virginia, the government gives you the sand, then they take the beach.
August 5, 2011In 2009 Virginia Beach condemned a spot on the Chesapeake Bay in order to take it for a sand-replenishment project and public access. The city claimed the property of Tommy Sheets, who owns about a quarter-acre of beach, was worth $4,000. But on June 9 of this year, a jury said the city should pay Sheets $152,000 for his property. In response, the city has decided—surprise!—it owned easement rights to the property all along, so it doesn’t have to pay Sheets a dime. Virginia Beach’s plan to grab the land on the cheap backfired, write A. Barton Hinkle, so now it’s trying an end-run around its own citizens—not to mention the judicial system and the city citizens who ruled in Sheets’ favor.
The Great Basketball Swindle
A riveting new documentary takes on New York's shameful eminent domain abuse
July 11, 2011Drawn from hundreds of hours of footage shot over a seven year period, the new documentary Battle for Brooklyn shines a spotlight on New York’s controversial use of eminent domain on behalf of the Atlantic Yards project, a corporate welfare boondoggle orchestrated by Bruce Ratner, a real estate tycoon and part-owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team. As Associate Editor Damon Root observes, this riveting film offers audiences the rare opportunity to watch a massive government swindle unfold before their eyes.
California Finally Seems Ready to Reign in Eminent Domain Abuse
April 23, 2011, 2:55pmCalifornia courts rule in favor of a youth center in National City, protecting it from the spurious use of a blight designation to hand over its property to a private developer.
Holding Justice Kennedy to His Word
Why the Supreme Court must put a stop to Columbia University's eminent domain abuse.
September 29, 2010New Book on Eminent Domain and Property Rights Available
July 8, 2010, 10:45amFlorida State University economist Bruce Benson has edited an extensive collection of pro-property rights essays in a new book called "Property Right" and just released by Palgrave-McMillan and the Independent Institute
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- The Well-Deserved Death of California's Redevelopment Scam
Steven Greenhut
February 6th, 2012 - Plaid Revolution: Citizens Celebrate Death of Redevelopment
Tim Cavanaugh
February 1st, 2012 - Smart City Logic: Ten Tall Buildings Worth More Than 20,000 Family Homes
Tim Cavanaugh
January 27th, 2012 - The Upside of the Keystone Cancellation
Jesse Walker
January 19th, 2012 - Long-Awaited Death of California Eminent Domain Abusers Continues
Tim Cavanaugh
January 12th, 2012 - L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa: Kill Redevelopment Agency Dead
Tim Cavanaugh
January 11th, 2012 - California Supreme Court Strikes Back Against Redevelopment Thugs (Updated With Sputtering, Fulminating and Slow Burns)
Tim Cavanaugh
December 29th, 2011 - Newt Gingrich: Wrong on the Courts, Wrong on Kelo
Damon Root
December 29th, 2011 - Developer Who Sued Author for Criticizing Eminent Domain Abuse Drops His Case
Jacob Sullum
December 12th, 2011 - Eminent Domain Reform Is a Bipartisan Opportunity
A. Barton Hinkle
November 25th, 2011 - “Bruce Ratner’s latest useful idiots have no one to blame but themselves.”
Damon Root
November 23rd, 2011 - Battle for Brooklyn Shortlisted for an Oscar
Damon Root
November 21st, 2011 - John Paul Stevens: Kelo Was No Big Deal
Damon Root
November 14th, 2011 - Corporate Welfare and the California GOP
Steven Greenhut
November 14th, 2011 - Eminent Domain Reform at the Mississippi Ballot Box
Damon Root
November 8th, 2011 - Oliver Stone Meets Robert Moses
Damon Root
October 27th, 2011 - John Paul Stevens' Faint-Hearted Liberalism
Damon Root
October 26th, 2011 - Justice Antonin Scalia: “I do not think that the Kelo opinion is long for this world.”
Damon Root
October 20th, 2011 - New York Times Revisits "Negroes Filling Up 99th Street" (And Features Reason.tv's Recent Documentary)
Jim Epstein
October 10th, 2011 - Redevelopment Thug Madeline Janis Has Dumbest Solyndra Gotcha Yet
Tim Cavanaugh
September 29th, 2011 - The Tragedy of Urban Renewal: The destruction and survival of a New York City neighborhood
Nick Gillespie
September 28th, 2011 - The Great Basketball Swindle
Damon Root
September 23rd, 2011 - Assessing the Kelo Apology
Damon Root
September 20th, 2011 - Connecticut Supreme Court Justice to Susette Kelo: “I’m Sorry”
Damon Root
September 19th, 2011 - How Eminent Domain Transformed a Nice Neighborhood into a Dump
Damon Root
September 1st, 2011
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