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Asheville City moves to take 12 Bones property through eminent domain

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- The City of Asheville is taking legal action to claim the property where 12 Bones sits in the River Arts District. A lawsuit filed last week is moving to take the property through e... read more

Chicago's Uptown Theatre will be restored: $75 million plan unveiled for grand palace on North Side

Geils Band concert on Dec. 19, 1981, leaving aging Chicagoans only with their memories of once seeing Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, Prince or the Grateful Dead inside its historic bones ... the city ... read more

Petitions ask Cedar Falls to rethink University Avenue project

Hewitt estimates the cost for displacing the display space and utilities will climb into the tens of thousands of dollars, which is saying nothing about the value of the property itself. Hewitt questi... read more

This is New York in the not-so-distant future

When Sandy hit New York City, as a mammoth cyclone more than a thousand miles in diameter, a wall of water rushed over Staten Island and the Rockaways and up through the Narrows ... But it still may m... read more

The Real Problem with Driverless Cars

It could be too much liability for any company to take on. But if the benefit to public health is great enough, the federal government can sometimes get involved to grease the skids. It’ll be interest... read more

Riverside 12 Bones to move this winter

The popular restaurant made news this spring when the City of Asheville took legal action to claim the property where 12 Bones sits, which is owned by local businessman and former vice mayor Chris Pet... read more

Leaked Internal Memo Reveals the ACLU Is Wavering on Free Speech

Moving forward, when deciding whether to take a free speech case, the organization will consider "factors such as the (present and historical) context of the proposed speech; the potential effect on m... read more

Wendell Berry: A Steward of Place

The first book I read by Wendell Berry was Remembering ... All of these points also apply to urbanites and city dwellers. It matters not where we live: people have a tendency to treat property and lan... read more

New roundabout and crosswalks among options for improving Ann Arbor's North Main corridor

Briere said it could be possible for a path that moves from Main Street through the former Allied Building Products property ... to the City Council by July 31. There will be chances to provide input ... read more

Movie Review: “God’s Not Dead 3”

It’s still an overtly Christian film about people working through doubts and struggles ... and they own the land the church is on, so they use eminent domain to seize the church property. Tom is the u... read more

Court Rules That Seattle Law Banning Landlords From Screening 'Qualified' Tenants Is a Taking

The court ruled that "choosing a tenant is fundamental attribute of property ownership," like the right to sell property, and therefore the state cannot take this ... Kelo v. City of New London and th... read more

It’s In the Bag! Teenager Wins Science Fair, Solves Massive Environmental Problem

We’ve all heard the plastic bag horror stories—the billions of bags discarded every year that wind up polluting oceans, killing wildlife and getting dumped in landfills where they take up to 1,000 yea... read more