Congresswoman Kristi Noem continues her career of image over substance with her latest phony position in Washington. The Republican-dominated Western Caucus has named her its "communications chairwoman." Rep. Noem will be "coordinating messages of members." What, she gets to take…
Posts tagged as “eminent domain”
Folks in Nebraska, Oklahoma, and elsewhere on the Great Plains don't think private Canadian corporation TransCanada should be able to take their land away by eminent domain just to build another leaky pipeline (oh, excuse me, Terry Cunha: a pipeline…
Ever since TransCanada first threatened to use eminent domain to build its tar sands oil pipelines, I've been frustrated at conservatives' relative silence on the issue. A foreign company uses the American court system to take property rights away from…
Some semi-random numbers from around South Dakota: 21: active eminent domain lawsuits by TransCanada against South Dakota landowners with the stubborn notion that they have a say over who uses their land. (Newspeak bonus: a Big Oil spokesman says these…
Sure, the New York Times has come out in opposition to TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, but what do those guys know? They don't live here. Let's ask some Great Plains neighbors what they think of piping some…
Tuesday's Madison Daily Leader carries a lengthy letter from Madison neighbors David and Gloria Pitts, who are among the landowners declining to sell their land to the City of Madison for construction of a bike trail to Lake Herman. The…
Eminent Domain Imminent? The proposed Lake Herman recreation trail returns to the Madison City Commission agenda tonight. According to the March 3 minutes of Madison's recreation trail committee (included in tonight's agenda packet), whatever money the city has offered was…
I am heartened to see a bipartisan team of legislators backing eminent domain reform in Pierre. House Bill 1177 would tighten the rules for private corporations trying to take South Dakotans' land for their use. The rules include requiring that…