Category: Property Rights

New Poll Finds that Majority of African-Americans Oppose Public Lands Bill

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Will African-Americans Continue to be Taken for Granted Even After Historic Election? Vote on Harry Reid's Omnibus Public Lands Bill Will be Key Test Washington, DC - Senator Harry Reid's effort to pass the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act this ...
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Property Rights: It’s Not Just for the Rich, by Reece Epstein

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Liberals normally claim to defend small independent businesses over "big box" retailers.  It seemed odd, then, when the liberal enclave of Oakland, California evicted two such underdogs to benefit a department store. By doing so, it exposed governments' growing disrespect ...
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Government Pirates: The Assault on Private Property Rights and How We Can Fight It

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David Ridenour shared news of a new property rights information resource with the National Center for Public Policy Research's email list last night: Dear Friend, I'm writing to tell you about an excellent new book – and exceptional resource – ...
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Congressman Paul Broun Fights for Property Rights

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A note on the fight to protect property rights from National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow R.J. Smith: To all -- Once again freshman Congressman Paul Broun from Georgia's 10th is on the House floor fighting for property ...
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Clean Water Restoration Act Could Trigger Largest-Ever Expansion of Federal Powers Over Private Property

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BACKGROUND: The Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1972 makes it a crime to discharge pollutants into the "navigable waters of the United States."  However, what constitutes a "pollutant" or "navigable water" has often left federal regulators scratching their heads and ...
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Weyrich: Congressional Hearings on Land Trusts Needed

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Conservative leader par excellence Paul Weyrich has written a column about National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Dana Joel Gattuso's National Policy Analysis paper, "Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Paul begins: Phil Truluck is ...
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Government Land Acquisition on the Sly

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Joe Thomas of WCHV in Charlottesville, Virginia has posted a podcast online of his radio interview with National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Dana Joel Gattuso. Dana, as many of you know, is the author of the absolutely ...
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An Earmark + “K Street” Lobbyist = Massive Federal Land Grab

National Policy Analysis #568 /
George Bush is now the last remaining hurdle to the establishment of de facto federal zoning along a 175-mile corridor running from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Charlottesville, Virginia.  It’s one of the largest federal land grabs in history. On April 29, ...
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Project 21’s Nedd Joins Other Religious Leaders at UN Public Health Conference

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Project 21 member Council Nedd II, a bishop in the Episcopal Missionary Church, is returning from Geneva, Switzerland, where he helped lead a non-governmental organization (NGO) delegation to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and ...
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Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #569 /
Introduction Conservation easements, as we know them today, are a fairly recent approach to land conservation. As government acquisitions and regulatory restrictions on land use have become prohibitively invasive, costly, and ineffective, governments have looked to conservation easements as a ...
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