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Federal Eminent Domain Blog
Will Philadelphia pass up Detroit
Philadelphia Inquirer A $5.2 billion expansion plan for Philadelphia International Airport over the next 12 to 15 years is designed to accommodate dramatic growth and help alleviate delays. The proposal…
Federal Eminent Domain Blog
“Lose, Lose”
freep.com The state House narrowly approved legislation Wednesday that clears the way for building a span 2 miles south of the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, despite intense lobbying by its…
Land Use Prof Blog
US Transportation Secretary Promotes Biking
US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is blogging bikes, and he's getting media coverage for it -including in The New York Times. First, consider the internet savvyness of an official US…
Federal Eminent Domain Blog
DRIC Plan and Eminent Domain
"While the DRIC continues to hold great news conferences, they forget to tell what they lack to accomplish their goal," Stamper said. "DRIC claims they are ready to go," he…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
Addressing America’s Infrastructure Crisis
Surveying the state of American infrastructure in 2008, the Obama administration sought to hit the ground running with the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The ARRA…
Land Use Prof Blog
Stein on Private and Public Construction in Modern China
Gregory M. Stein (Tennessee) has posted Private and Public Construction in Modern China. The abstract: During the past three decades, real estate development in China has proceeded at an astonishing pace,…
Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog
President Signs Into Law $17.6 Billion Jobs Creation Package
By Christopher L. Rissetto, Robert Helland
This post was also written by Jim Burns. This week, President Obama signed into law a $17.6 billion jobs creation package passed by Congress, H.R. 2847, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment…
FCC Law Blog
National Broadband Plan Recommends Lower, Uniform Pole Attachment Rates
The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") released its long-awaited National Broadband Plan (the "Plan") on March 16, 2010. The Plan emphasizes that encouraging and facilitating access to infrastructure, such as utility poles, is…
Land Use Prof Blog
County Struggles to Pay for Unused Infrastructure Capacity
In our relatively short time as co-editors of this blog, we've written several times about the impact of the implosion of the housing market. (Just check out our housing and…
Land Use Prof Blog
More Info on the Juergensmeyer Symposium
From the student committee at GSU:Georgia State University College of Law's Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth is hosting a symposium to honor the career of Julian Conrad…