Word: land
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...ruling, Judge John Forte dismissed charges brought against the city of Lawrence by a group of five landowners who claimed that the city's planned seizure of their land, under the rule of eminent domain, violated their civil rights...
...their unsuccessful suit, the landowners claimed that the rule of eminent domain did not allow Lawrence to seize the land because of the city's plans to sell part of the land to Emerson, which is a privately owned and operated institution, Ball said...
Under Lawrence statutes, the city may claim eminent, domain only in order to take land to use for the public good. Forte ruled that bringing the college to Lawrence would raise city revenues and thus contribute to the public good...
...Zionist as I do not desire to live in a Jewish state. To me the United States is the modern promised land that allows minorities of all different stripes to flourish and contribute to the world in freedom. I often look at Israel as the ultimate final solution Europeans found to their inability to deal with anti-Semitism. Colonizing Jews on a strip of desert and cutting them off in a hostile region from the European world they helped create is not my idea of fair or wise. Nonetheless I am attracted by the idea of a strong and powerful...
This refugee strip is too small for effective self-government. If it can be negotiated Israel should receive some land in compensation in the Sinai. Egypt is the one nation with which Israel has achieved peace thus there is not real reason to hold the strip anymore...