House Agriculture and Natural Resources passed House Bill 1087 yesterday. This bill is Rep. Betty Olson's (R-28/Prairie City) latest attempt to kill conservation easements in South Dakota. Ostensibly, the bill only eliminates perpetual conservation easements by setting a thirty-year limit…
Posts tagged as “property rights”
Rep. Betty Olson (R-28B/Prairie City) hates conservation easements. Last year she co-sponsored two failed bills that sought to create all sorts of red tape for property owners who want to establish conservation easements on their land. Now Rep. Olson is…
KELO generally enjoys blowing the usury industry's smoke about how regulations raise their costs and force them to lay off workers. But KELO slipped Wednesday night and admitted that the Federal Reserve's new debit card rules are intended to lower…
The whole idea of property is that you have the right to do with your property what you please. But does that include the right to do nothing with it? Residents of Wentworth Park on the north shore are unhappy…
High blog praise today for Nebraska rancher Randy Thompson, who is willing to reveal the terms of the ultimatum TransCanada has issued him in its quest to take his land for its Keystone XL pipeline. Thompson tells the Vancouver Sun…
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…
A few weeks ago, Shelli Gust helped me explain how the proposed update of Lake County's zoning ordinance actually increased land-use options. But 9.4% of the county electorate was more interested in poking fingers in various commissioners' eyes than in…
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…