Corporate Owned America? Cities can seize homes

Cities can seize homes

The 5-4 ruling assailed by dissenting Justice Sanday Day O'Connor as handing "disproportionate influence and power" to the well-heeled in America was a defeat for some Connecticut residents whose homes are slated for destruction to make room for an office complex. They had argued that cities have no right to take their land except for projects with a clear public use, such as roads or schools, or to revitalize blighted areas.

As a result, cities now have wide power to bulldoze residences for projects such as shopping malls and hotel complexes in order to generate tax revenue.

Excerpt from the AP by Hope Yen
6-23-05


This is no "republican" agenda - this is a completely different country than it used to be. We've got to tap the republicans and the democrats that vomit at this type of ruling.

How about a prime time story on the older folks displaced in Connecticut for nothing more than private interests?