{"id":2708,"date":"2023-02-02T23:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T23:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2023-02-03T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:00:34","slug":"eminent-domain-irony-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/eminent-domain-irony-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminent Domain Irony 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week we broached the topic of irony at\u00a0the Alamo. The name of the Alamo,\u00a0where people fought to stop the taking of land, is being heralded as a reason to\u00a0take land from a private business owner in the name of\u00a0a museum. This week, the historical game of musical chairs is a popular topic. A Wall Street Journal editorial enters the fray.\u00a0<br><br>As often is the case, at issue is value of \u00a0the land. The WSJ looks at it from a willing buyer, willing seller perspective. The bar owner is willing to sell at $17 M. The last eminent domain appraisal was for $3.5 M. \u00a0That&#8217;s a $13.5 M gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The editorial poses this question: The question is whether it\u2019s right for the government not only to take a person\u2019s property but to set the price and negotiate with the threat of eminent domain hanging in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/moses-roses-hideout-alamo-san-antonio-texas-city-council-eminent-domain-vince-cantu-11675111307\">WSJ | The Second Battle of the Alamo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we broached the topic of irony at\u00a0the Alamo. The name of the Alamo,\u00a0where people fought to stop the taking of land, is being heralded as a reason to\u00a0take land from a private business owner in the name of\u00a0a museum. This week, the historical game of musical chairs is a popular topic. A Wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}