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by Timothy Sandefur I'll be speaking to Mark Schneidman on Radio Real Estate at 11a.m. You can listen online here. … ...

The Los Angeles Daily News has this report on the case of the Bernard Luggage Store, which under an agreement reached last week, will not be condemned and transferred to a private developer. … ...

KCBS San Francisco speaks with Mimi Walters, leader of the campaign for Prop. 90, the California eminent domain reform initiative. Meanwhile, the mayors of several Northern California cities worry that it would be too protective of property rights. … ...

The Asbury Park (N.J.) Press reports that there is talk of a settlement in the Long Branch eminent domain case. … ...

KOTV 6 Tulsa reports on a meeting of a property rights group concerned with violations of the property rights of churches and religious communities. … ...

The Small Business And Entrepreneurship Council has an important update on eminent domain abuse. As they rightly note, it's small business, not homeowners, who are the most common victims of eminent domain abuse. … ...

Attorney Bert Gall of the Institute for Justice has this op-ed in today's Miami Herald, looking at eminent domain abuse in Riviera Beach, Fla., and IJ's recent lawsuit to stop it. Via RealClearPolitics. … ...

by Steven Geoffrey Gieseler In what an editorial note refers to as part of a "property rights rebellion"–I think it's supposed to be a put down, but actually sounds pretty noble–Washington state will vote in November on a proposal of similar importance to those that will curb eminent domain abuse. Like Oregon's Measure ...

The Chicago Daily Herald complains in this editorial that officials in Arlington Heights are going too far when they consider condemning a shopping center to make way for a Super Target. Excerpt: The International Plaza is not the most vibrant shopping district in the suburbs, but neither is it the most dilapidated. It clearly is … ...