More Eminent Domain

To cap on Harry’s blog regarding the encouraging news on eminent domain, the Governor’s announcement is very good news because, should the legislation he has outlined pass, the protections for property owners will be far better than they would have been under the bill he vetoed last year. If you are curious, the final recommendations [...]

Eminent Domain in New Mexico — Looks Like Good News

According the the Albuquerque Journal this morning Governor Richardson is proposing to “ensure that government cannot take private property for economic development.”
Richardson’s proposal, which incorporates recommendations from a governor-appointed task force, would repeal the state’s Urban Renewal and Community Development laws.
It also would remove eminent domain power from the Metropolitan Redevelopment Act, a comprehensive economic [...]

Bad News and a Little Good News

Maine, a state that is as bad as New Mexico in many ways, saw its constitutional amendment to limit taxing and spending go down to defeat.
But a little good news too: the wasteful “quality of life tax” went down to defeat in ABQ.

Gangster Politicians

Check this video on eminent domain out. The sad thing is that gangsters’ views of our property rights are little different from those of our political leaders. Worse still for New Mexicans, while this video was made by a Nevada group supporting an initiative that will be on the ballot to protect property owners this [...]

Governor Richardson’s Eminent Domain Task Force to Hold Public Meeting, Take Comments

It is important for opponents of eminent domain to attend the meeting this Thursday of the Governor’s Eminent Domain Task Force. This will be the only opportunity that the public will get to express their opposition to eminent domain abuse.
Pertinent information is as follows: The meeting will be held at 4:00 PM on September 28th [...]

Eminent Domain Curbed in Missouri

Governor Matt Blunt (R) in Missouri has signed legislation restricting use of eminent domain. His bill is particularly good in that it bars the taking of private property solely to increase taxes or create jobs; It explicitly rejects the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. New London; and it increases the compensation for seized [...]

RGF in the news

In case you missed it, the Rio Grande Foundation got some nice ink in the Albuquerque Journal relating to our rally marking the one-year anniversary of the Kelo decision.
Whether Governor Richardson’s commission succeeds in finding a solution that secures our individual property rights or whether John Dendahl pulls an upset and pushes legislation through the [...]

Adding Insult to Injury

President Bush celebrated the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision with an Executive Order, basically restating the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. By the President’s order, private property is now protected by:
limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, [...]

Property Rights in 21st-Century America

Speaking of the failure of New Mexico to protect the cornerstone of liberty, there is a new book out. In Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st-Century America, a new book published today by the Cato Institute, Timothy Sandefur, a staff attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, examines the state of property rights after Kelo.

Su Casa Es Mi Casa

Today marks the 1st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision. It was such a bad interpretation of the constitution that it makes you wonder what they were smoking.

Property rights are the cornerstone of the liberty that has made us so prosperous. Paul is leading an event today that calls attention to New Mexico’s subsequent [...]

Capitol Report New Mexico
New Mexico Watchdog


Support Liberty!

• Syndicate

   RSS

• Recent Posts

  • Wheat, Weed, and ObamaCare: How the Commerce Clause Made Congress All-Powerful
  • Don’t add TV loophole to film subsidy cap!
  • New Mexico 49th in economic freedom
  • Abusing NM’s Constitution to avoid education reform
  • Indiana is open for business: when will New Mexico be?

• Recent Comments

  • Andrew on The Rail Runner’s “Hand Grenades”
  • Paul Gessing on Don’t add TV loophole to film subsidy cap!
  • Robert Batton on Don’t add TV loophole to film subsidy cap!
  • jpwhite on Don’t add TV loophole to film subsidy cap!
  • george richmond on Indiana is open for business: when will New Mexico be?

• Categories

  • Uncategorized

• Archives

  Select Month February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 July 2004 June 2004 April 2004 March 2004

• Share Errors of Enchantment

  Share

• Actions

  • Log in