Remember that Kelo thing?
Posted March 19th, 2008 at 8:27 PM by Jon HamIt hasn’t gotten much press lately, but the project that spurred the City of New London, Conn., to take people’s property for the benefit of other private citizens, all to garner the higher property taxes that would result, is foundering:
Faced with a tight lending climate, the Corcoran Jennison company has asked the Federal Housing Authority to back an $11.5 million loan to fund the long-delayed construction of housing on the Fort Trumbull peninsula.
Corcoran Jennison applied for the mortgage insurance last Friday, said Kristine Foye, spokeswoman for the New England Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Newsbusters notes that the New London Day newspaper never mentions the name Kelo, or the infamous Kelo vs. City of New London court case that allowed this travesty to take place.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
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March 20th, 2008 at 7:46 am
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March 20th, 2008 at 8:22 am
I guess that goes to show the folly of government schem…er, planning.
Tech note; it looks like this place is running on Central time now. You might want to change the offset to UTC -4 instead of -5.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Steve, time now changed. Damn daylight savings. Grrrrr.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:46 am
It does get earlier and earlier every year. Maybe someone should create a plugin to do it automatically.