Has America's Obsession With Manufacturing Jobs Gone Too Far?
A Wisconsin town is spending billions, seizing homes, and breaking state law to lure a Taiwanese company.
A Wisconsin town is spending billions, seizing homes, and breaking state law to lure a Taiwanese company.
"We could bring Foxconn to set up a factory in, I think, Minnesota," West said of the manufacturing plant being built in Wisconsin.
New poll finds Walker trailing his Democratic rival by five points and that many voters believe the state paid too much to lure Foxconn.
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The eminent domain reform bill is the same legislation that has passed the House three previous times since 2005. Each time, it died in the Senate without ever coming to a vote.
"You may learn about eminent domain, but until you are in the crosshairs of the government, you don't understand how it really works."
Award-winning movie about Susette Kelo's attempt to save house from a local government gone klepto is out on streaming and video-on-demand services.
Contrary to what his critics say, this "narrow-minded elitist" stands up for the little guy.
The dealmaker in chief abuses his power to cripple companies that anger him and reward those that please him-and his fellow Republicans enable it.
State and local officials are doling out $4.5 billion and 1,000 acres to lure the Taiwanese manufacturing giant.
The mercurial justice lets everybody down, again.
Lawsuit exposes a shady deal in Edgewater, New Jersey.
Developer claims politicians blocked their project to favor a crony who helps the politicians.
A powerful new film portrays an infuriating act of eminent domain abuse.
A low-budget account of the Kelo case sells out a 1,400-seat theater and gets the Megyn Kelly treatment plus a love-letter from George Will.
The story of how the government can take your home against your will.
The retired justice wants to claw back parts of the Bill of Rights.
Another day, another shady land grab scheme by New York officials.
Carlos Carrion has been growing bamboo in his yard for three decades; suddenly it's a crime.
A new study of border takings under the 2006 Secure Fence Act finds that many owners get inadequate compensation, and that the condemnation process is flawed in other ways.
Property owners were ordered to pay thousands for violations unless they agreed to sell to a redeveloper.
A big defeat for anti-pipeline activists.
No, because Trump doesn't care about private property rights.
That Pirates of the Caribbean logic did not sit well with the Georgia Supreme Court.
Quentin Kopp convinced voters to approve the project. Now he's suing to kill it.
...and put up a parking garage
A new film dramatizes the landmark Supreme Court decision on eminent domain.
Governments in Georgia will be allowed to seize property for "economic development" purposes, undoing reforms passed in 2006 after the Kelo ruling.
Standing Rock protesters succeed in blocking Bakken oil pipeline route
Allison wants to repeal all Dodd-Frank regulations, which didn't fix the problem of banks being "too big to fail."
Eminent domain abuse struck down in Casino Reinvestment Development Authority v. Birnbaum.
Republican Platform vs. Republican presidential nominee
Would make using eminent domain even easier.
If you thought eminent domain couldn't get any worse, Dallas will prove you wrong.
Face it: Trump is right that the Keystone XL pipeline is only getting built with massive use of eminent domain. Same for most other mega-projects.
"You need eminent domain," said Trump.
Trump trashes property rights, endorses eminent domain abuse. We'll find out if Iowa voters care.
Governments ignoring the constitutional limitations to eminent domain.
So says Matt Welch on The Blaze
Credit Trump with bringing a common state and local flashpoint issue into the primaries.
Politicians and developers stole a neighborhood to build it, but it loses money and revitalized nothing.
(You don't really have to shut up, but here's my money.)
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