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In Mississippi, the Republican candidate for Senate district 37, wants voters to know she is pro private propety rights and supports eminent domain reform.
The Republican says her opponent, the former state Senator back in 2009 “sided with Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, who had vetoed a bill that would limit eminent domain. Barbour argued the limitation would hurt economic development, and Dearing agreed.”
Mississippi voters later approved eminent domain reforms in 2011.
Bloomberg: The Tiny Town that Hates Elon Musk
Background: Boca Chica, with its 26 residents, is home to Space X launch site. Space X has a safety plan for launch days:
What the residents…
California legislature passed a bill to protect property owners from drones filing within 350 feet above their property. Very pro-private property rights legislation.
This measure, Senate Bill 142 , was vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown. The Governor is concerned that drone operators will be exposed to litigation.
Courthouse News Service: Drone Regulations Grounded in California
Dr. Mark Miller, the 2014 Libertarian nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, and announced his candidacy for Texas Railroad Commissioner in 2016. From his statement:
“Among them were appropriate regulations for wastewater wells that trigger earthquakes and eminent domain abuse by common carrier pipelines. Sadly, regulations promulgated by the Commission under Porter’s watch turned out to be nothing more than window-dressing, resulting in additional bureaucratic busy-work, but with no…
Club for Growth, the fiscal conservative group, put out a White Paper on Trump.
Connecting the dots, HotAir explains that to build a border wall, requires that land be acquired. Acquiring land by a governmental entity, lends itself to eminent domain when landowners aren’t willing to give up their land.
Eminent Domain for a border wall is being called:
An Elgin community meeting about the Vista Regional Water Plan was laser focused on eminent domain. The citizen comments abou the Vista water pipleine to move water to San Antonio :
Pipeline protesting proliferates the Northern Plains. The most recent rally cry is a purchase of billboard ad space along the proposed route of a pipeline.
Dakota Rural Action purchased the billboards to get citizens engaged. The determination whether to award eminent domain to the common carrier in the permitting process.
Considering the string of recent denials of eminent domain authority to private entities, like a pipeline, in the last few months, the billboard ad buy is a smart…
In the 1950s and 1960s, a transportation authority in California gobbled up, with compensation, homes to make room for a freeway, and maybe some rail. High hopes. Big dreams of efficient transportation were for naught.
Nothing was built. But since the mid 1900s, the state has leased the homes to residents, who now hope to buy their abode.
Here’s the math, the homes were bought for $20,000ish, market price for nearby comparable homes now is $800,000.
Today a federal judge blocked implementation of EPA rules which would have required mapping of small waterways on private land. The case will proceed; however, the rules have been temporarily blocked.
July 9, 2015, Information Intelligence:
27 states and state agencies, as well as 14 agriculture-oriented organizations, have filed lawsuits across teh country to block the EPA water mapping project.
The EPA is seeking to map water flows, including mapping of low…