Opening day of the 2017-18 General Assembly was filled with warm greetings, friendly exchanges, and promises of compromise. After a short break, lawmakers have returned to get down to the real work of the session. It’s time to govern. But can lawmakers find common ground? Some areas of common interest may be found in education...
RALEIGH — The N.C. House could vote as early as today to endorse a constitutional amendment designed to strengthen property rights protection. The proposed amendment cleared a House committee Tuesday evening with little debate.
RALEIGH — Two primary sponsors of the legislation say they’re optimistic the N.C. House will vote this year on a proposed constitutional amendment protecting property rights. Eighty percent of the House’s members have signed on to the measure.
RALEIGH — Eighty percent of the members of the N.C. House are cosponsors of a bill that would allow a public vote on a constitutional amendment limiting the powers of governments to seize private property, but that doesn’t mean it will ever come up for a vote.
RALEIGH — The Triangle Transit Authority, having forgone its pursuit of federal funds for a proposed commuter rail system, instead is planning to work with a developer creating businesses near its 12 planned train stations. Private-property advocates wonder whether TTA could seize land because North Carolina law allows eminent domain when “it is useful for the purposes of public transportation.”
RALEIGH — In today’s Friday interview the John Locke Foundation’s Donna Martinez discusses eminent domain and property rights with former Raleigh City Councilman Kieran Shanahan, who heads the North Carolina Property Rights Coalition. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).
RALEIGH — The state's League of Municipalities, despite claiming that what happened in a controversial eminent domain case in Connecticut could not happen in North Carolina, filed an amicus brief in November 2004 on behalf of the city of New London, Conn., in its successful Supreme Court case. Related Property Rights Articles: Basnight backs BB&T on eminent domain
RALEIGH — North Carolina can protect private property rights with a carefully worded constitutional amendment. That’s the new recommendation from a John Locke Foundation analyst. North Carolina needs a constitutional amendment to protect property rights that will contain very specific language,” Daren Bakst wrote in his recent report, “A Model Amendment.”
RALEIGH — A new N.C. House committee, reacting to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that approved a Connecticut local government’s seizing of one person's private property to give it to another person, began work Thursday reviewing the scope and breadth of North Carolina’s eminent domain statutes.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's Kelo decision, N.C. must enact a constitutional amendment to protect private property.
RALEIGH — Officials in North Carolina hold differing opinions on the local implications of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Kelo v. New London eminent-domain case in late June. But nearly all of the elected leaders surveyed by Carolina Journal were concerned about the potential for infringement on individual property rights.
