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Texas Observer | Texans Receive First Notices of Land Condemnation for Trump’s Border Wall
Dallas Morning News | White House defends use of eminent domain for…
What land near UFOs is there a pre-eminent domain negotiation for value? The Groom Mining Land near Area 51
What value does the property owner appraisers give the land? $44 million and $116 million
What’s the offer from the federal government? $333,300 with a final offer of $5.2 million
What factors do the property owners say factor into the land’s value?
The Federal Avaiation Administration finalized the first round of drone rules.
6 Key Points:
Drones must maintain a maximum flight speed of 100 miles per hour and a maximum height/elevation of 400 feet.
The drone must remain in the operator’s visual line of sight (using a drone’s camera does not satisfy this requirement).
While flight is limited to daytime use, operators will be allowed to fly their drones 30 minutes before official sunrise to 30 minutes after official…
Which Texas Congressman wrote to the Surface Transportation Board about opposing high speed rail in Texas? Congressman Brady
What is Congressman Brady’s opposition to high speed rail in Texas?
What is Congressman Brady’s opposition to the high speed rail route?
A group of physicians writing in the Washington Post argue the federal government should be able to use eminent domain for drug prices.
The intel:
The Ellis County Press published an Op-Ed from Texans Against High Speed Rail.
What points does Texans Against High Speed Rail make in its Op-Ed?
Ellis County Press | TCR proposes to acquire land it ultimately won’t use to satisfy investors
What great economic gains does Texas Central Rail points to with high speed rail?
What does Grimes County Judge say about economic benefits and the impact to eminent domain? Irrelevant. “The power of…
Land along the border is largely privately held. To build a wall, private land has to be aquired by the government. Here’s one view:
Land transfered by the King of Spain was aquired to build the current partial border wall? Yes, land that had been held by the same family since the initital land grant from the King of Spain in 1767.
Surely the feds own some of the border lands? Yes, about 33% of the land is either federal or tribal lands
Where is most of the 67% of private land? TEXAS
Where is this eminent domain case in the courts? A federal district judge and Federal Energy Regulatory Agency granted a pipeline in Pennsylvania the ability to clear trees in anticipation of a pipeline while the matter continues in federal court.
How did the state police stop the pre-condemnation access? The federal judge’s order did not authorize the state police to arrest protesters who appeared to stop the loggers.
What is the issue the land owners are fighting? Landowners operate…
58% of people in the West, home to people like the Bundy Family, and independent minds, oppose giving control over land to States.
The details:
It’s the 6th year of the Conservation in the West poll, sponsored by Colorado College
60% oppose selling “significant holdings” of public lands, such as national forests, to reduce the budget deficit.
Only Utahians supported giving states control. 47% to 41% support state control over federal land.
In Nevada, the epicenter…