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MORR Conference on Redevelopment Abuse
Posted on April 9, 2010 | No CommentsMunicipal Officials for Redevelopment Reform (MORR) will hold it’s 14th Annual Southern California Conference on Redevelopment Abuse on Sat. May 1, 2010 at the Ontario Airport Marriott. Our featured speakers... -
Who is responsible for our public debt?
Posted on March 23, 2010 | No CommentsFinally. Americans from every state in the union have been awakened by that four letter word called debt. The future cost of universal health care has been pegged at one... -
US Supreme Court rules in favor of free speech
Posted on January 21, 2010 | 12 CommentsThis has been a remarkable week starting with one man making a difference. No. Not president Obama. I refer to Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. We have just learned of... -
Dad arrested for placing anti eminent domain flyers on windshields
Posted on December 16, 2009 | 3 CommentsIn Steven Greenhut’s’book entitled Abuse of Power he covers national abuses in which our private property rights are being trampled by local redevelopment agencies. The following recent story does not... -
Major Court Ruling..Property rights ..Atlantic Yards
Posted on November 24, 2009 | No CommentsWhat a sad property rights update two days before Thanksgiving. We just celebrated Veterans Day to honor those patriotic Americans, some of whom made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom abroad... -
Was stimulus money awarded for a completed Hollywood project?
Posted on November 20, 2009 | 4 CommentsI have been under the impression that “stimulus money” was being provided for the sole purpose of job creation. As I drove to a dinner meeting last night I heard a... -
Kelo… redevelopment project area.. four year later
Posted on November 10, 2009 | 6 CommentsWhen meeting victims of eminent domain abuse you feel powerless to come to their aide other than to see if there were any mistakes in the process that could be... -
City of Lake Forest bungles just compensation in their use of eminent domain
Posted on November 5, 2009 | No CommentsToday’s OC Register article by Erika Ritchie contains a follow up report on the city of Lake Forest using its eminent domain powers to “take” property from a south Orange... -
Who is this 72nd AD candidate Chris Norby anyway?
Posted on October 27, 2009 | 5 CommentsOver the past few weeks I have watched blog reports about OC Supervisor Chris Norby and Linda Ackerman and have remained silent. That is about to end. I could wrap us... -
SB 93 and it’s impact on redevelopment $$ into non-project areas
Posted on October 13, 2009 | 2 CommentsAlthough I spoke to Grantville Action Group, GAG, president Brian Peterson yesterday regarding the passage of SD Senator Kehoe’s SB 93, and its relationship to his local redevelopment agency fight,... -
Response from Huell Howser on his being a “shill” for the California Redevelopment Agency
Posted on August 7, 2009 | 23 CommentsAs Orange County Co-Director for CURE, as well as being a member of the Castle Coalition partners of the Institute for Justice, those volunteer efforts have enabled me to network... -
Former Chairman SD Planning Board blasts Huell Howser for biased RDA coverage
Posted on August 5, 2009 | No CommentsI urge everyone reading these Juice posts or watching Huell Howser’s “bought and paid” for TV coverage of redevelopment projects, to flood his mail box with complaints on his putting... -
Long Beach, CA RDA Agenda violates Prop 99 Property Rights protection
Posted on July 12, 2009 | 10 CommentsProp 99, as passed by the voters in 2008, amended the California Constitution to protect private property owners against government takings of their homes by “eminent domain” police powers when... -
“Judge Judy” for US Supreme Court to replace Associate Justice David Souter
Posted on May 1, 2009 | 9 CommentsBy now we have all read that 69 year old U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter, from New Hampshire, is retiring from the highest court in the land. “Article...
